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Little Europe?

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September 19, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The coastal strip west of the Cascades, including the large cities of Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland, has a very similar climate to that of Western Europe away from the Mediterranean.  The area is much smaller; a drive from Seattle to […]

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Portland Public Loos Are The Best

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September 12, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here’s an article from The Atlantic Cities explaining why Portland, Oregon’s, public loos are the best. In response to: “Why Portland’s Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed” by John Metcalfe at The Atlantic Cities

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How Much Does Immigration Change Character?

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September 10, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am opposed to immigrant bashing. But we all bring ourselves and our deficiencies with us wherever we go. The Latinos are not the first immigrants to flock to California only to find they had brought their old selves along […]

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The New Spirituality of ‘Connectedness’

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August 15, 2012May 22, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Most of us nowadays can probably recognize what this spaghetti of wires that I have photographed here is. Without it, my laptop, my iPad, and my phone will be useless pieces of metal in a day or two, though my […]

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Melinda’s Choice Crusade for Women: Breaking the Planned Parenthood Monopoly?

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June 22, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I read here that Melinda Gates has decided that ‘birth control’ and ‘family planning’ are important.  On the one hand, I have a lot of concern about the ‘contraceptive culture’ and the impact of separating the way we make babies […]

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The Rise of Redneck Stand-up Paddleboarding

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June 15, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

[Props to my co-parishioner Miles Stoudenmire for coming up with these pictures.] It appears, from the evidence of these pictures, that the SUP culture can harmonize with the huntin’ and fishin’ culture of the rednecks and their northern counterparts.  [The […]

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Global Warming Not a Bad Thing

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April 4, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Robert Zubrin, in this article from National Review, takes a different approach from most conservatives on global warming, and to my view the most sensible approach.  Instead of denying that global warming is happening, or insisting that human activity has […]

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SLAP ‘EM AND WALK HOME – A way of promoting abstinence in our culture

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March 22, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I must start with a word of explanation.  Lysistrata was a comic play by Aristophanes in classical Greece, in which the women, in order to stop a war they thought senseless, agreed to not sleep with their men until the […]

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Marijuana In Public Spaces

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February 9, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

While I find the odor of marijuana a little less offensive than that of tobacco, a lot of people don’t, and I think the same standard should be applied to marijuana in public spaces as to tobacco. Related: “Marijuana dropped […]

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Help the Environment with Cactus Sucking Selenium

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January 31, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It has been discovered that the prickly pear cactus sucks up selenium, regarded as a pollutant in the West San Joaquin Valley, slowly enough to not be toxic but enough to be of benefit to selenium-deficient diets.  In small quantities, […]

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