Archives for July 2008

Time for Some Campaignin’

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18 July 2008 | politics, hillary, campaign, 2008, clinton, obama, jibjab, mccain | No Comments

Parachutes Are For Sissies

This guy is nucking futs! Cool video, though.

18 July 2008 | youtube, skydiving | No Comments

World’s Fastest Lobsterboat

Ain’t Maine cool?!?!

18 July 2008 | maine, loster, boat, race | 1 Comment

Are We on an Oil Diet?

People are actually starting to curb their consumption habits.  Whew!  It looks like, for now, $4 is a magic number.  People are driving less and automakers are taking notice.
Oil Isn’t Cheap Anymore
By Kevin Bullis, Technology Review, July 10, 2008
It’s about time!  Last week I heard an interesting advertisement for a local automobile dealership.  The sales […]

17 July 2008 | politics, environment, oil, green, economy | No Comments

The Greenest City in Maine

Saco (sock-o) was recently chosen as “the greenest city in Maine” by Going Green Magazine. Yippee. As such, it will host the Maine Going Green Energy, Building & Living Expo in September.
One of the factors in the decision was our two wind turbines.  The new train depot and city offices will be powered […]

16 July 2008 | maine, saco, environment, green, windmill, wind, turbine | No Comments

Impossible Rules

When I was a Mormon missionary serving in Massachusetts in the early 1990s our message was quite positive.  What we were selling was purpose, lasting peace, true happiness and strong families.  Occasionally we found a credulous undereducated person who desired these things and we were able to seal the deal and persuade them to join […]

11 July 2008 | religion, christianity, missionary, tract | No Comments

New Sexual Life Styles

I recently received several old Playboy Magazines I had ordered from Ebay. I was initially humored by the advertisements and technology of the late sixties and early seventies. Now it is the articles that have captured my attention. Nearly forty years later we are still suffering many of the same problems.  These articles discuss an […]

8 July 2008 | marriage, alternative, sex, adultery, playboy 1973, homo sexual, gay, lesbian, orgy, discussion, interview, symposium, panel, lifestyle | 8 Comments

Right to Die

Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate on Right to Die
By MARK LANDLER
NY Times, July 3, 2008
A woman’s desire to avoid life in a nursing home forces a country to confront the thorny ethical issue and casts an assisted-suicide advocate as Germany’s Jack Kevorkian.

But many here do not want Germany to follow the example […]

5 July 2008 | religion, ethics, assisted-suicide, life, suicide, authanasia, death, peter singer, kevorkian, nytimes | 5 Comments

Playboy: Old and New

Playboy Magazine, June 1972
(Liv Lindeland)
A few days ago I received several old Playboys I had purchased from an Ebay dealer. I got all three issues that feature Liv Lindeland (January 1971, June 1972 and December 1979), September 1973 (my birth month), January 1974 (20th Anniversary Issue) and several others for the authors and articles. […]

5 July 2008 | playboy, magazine, 1971, 1972, liv lindeland, culture, advertisement, shel silverstein | 1 Comment

Sex Education and Censorship in America

Playboy Magazine is NOT pornography.  It might be offensive to some, but it is certainly not obscene by any legal standard.  Playboy contains articles by some of the best writers and interviews of the most interesting and high-profile personalities.  Each issue also contains several pictorials featuring women whose dress ranges from fully clothed to completely […]

3 July 2008 | religion, maine, playboy, parenting, censorship, police, law enforcement, morality, nudity, sex, sexuality, sex education, liberty, freedom, child abuse | 85 Comments