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I’m a Man

I’ll admit it.  I’m a Super Bowl grouch.  I can’t just enjoy the game and the commercials.  I have a compulsion to analyze the messages behind the commercials.  There were variations of commercials we see every year.  There were slapstick commercials.  There were sentimental commercials.  There were commercials that used sex appeal.  There were commercials [...]

Thoughts on Thanksgiving Caricatures

Today I passed an elementary school where the kids were running around the playground wearing their Thanksgiving Indian headdresses, consisting of a headband with feathers coming out the front. I thought, “This is really odd. Indigenous people participating in the caricature of another indigenous people.”
Thanksgiving Day is traditionally seen as a harvest feast, and remembered [...]

July 4th at Pearl Harbor

One nice thing about having a congregation full of military officers is the associated perks. Taylor Skardon is high up in the Navy and his family gets special access to the roof of their building for the 4th of July. It is directly adjacent to Pearl Habor and probably has the best view of anywhere [...]