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		<title>The Big Lie</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2009/06/27/the-big-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does an irrational belief continue to dominate our populace? What is it about human nature that allows the myth of theistic religion to gain ground even as the general level of education continues to rise?

These two questions continue to pester me. I suppose that&#8217;s natural when you are always in the minority. But sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=150&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Claus Delusion</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2009/05/30/the-claus-delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 14:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often asked by religious friends to reconsider my atheism. I tell them that I&#8217;m certainly willing to go back to believing in a personal god, just as soon as they go back to believing in Santa Claus.
 

Why not? Isn&#8217;t belief in one supernatural being pretty much the same as belief in another? Why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=119&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Longing</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2009/02/10/the-longing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgleg922</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I chose to come to Shemya because I felt it would keep me out of trouble.  If you have to do a year away from everyone you love, then it made sense to spend that time in a place where I could not wallow in self destruction?  Right? Just a thousand or so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=103&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Vampire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the few things Ann Rice got right is that vampires never change—physically, that is. We can cut our nails, trim our hair, shave our ass, but it&#8217;s all for naught. Wake up the next evening and the nails are long, the head is scruffy, and there&#8217;s enough hair on the your ass to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=91&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working From Home, a Memo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve had a lot of questions recently about our &#8220;work from home&#8221; (WFH) policy.  I wanted to take a few minutes to update everyone regarding company policy; my view on working from home; and the practices I&#8217;d like us to adhere to.
 
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		<title>The Last Farmer</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2008/05/28/the-last-farmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 01:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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It was a hot summer afternoon in 1963-everything in sight seemed to be bleached pale by the sun. I&#8217;d been playing near her flowers and somehow managed to get myself stung by a bee. Seeking comfort, I ran onto the wide front porch and Maudie was the first adult I found. She was sitting in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=69&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bleu Morning</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2008/05/08/bleu-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgleg922</dc:creator>
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In the six months I&#8217;ve been riding the bus I&#8217;ve sat up front only twice.  But for some unknown reason, this morning I chose to do just that.  On a near-empty bus,  I took a bench seat about 3 places back. 

Within a block, I melted into my email.  We rode [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=68&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Any Kind of Get High</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2008/03/31/any-kind-of-get-high/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgleg922</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
&#8220;Oh yeah, we&#8217;d snort gasoline, paint thinner, any kind of get high&#8221;
 
At this moment I knew I was in over my head.
 
We were in Jacob&#8217;s crappy little apartment, in a crappy little subdivision, about a three miles from the base.
 
Jacob, (the guy talking), Sam and I were snorting speed. Well at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=66&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise 2039</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2008/03/22/paradise-2039/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgleg922</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I reckon he had it coming. I don&#8217;t really know why he came back here in the first place. Why didn&#8217;t he just go on and leave the country?

Maybe he could have gone off to California and lived with the other heathens. Though it wouldn&#8217;t have lasted long. The reverend says we are about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=64&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old Soul</title>
		<link>http://rodgleghorn.com/2008/03/20/old-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rgleg922</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Our dog Parker is an old soul. When he looks at you, his eyes speak of depth, kindness and limitless, gentle, patience. Not wisdom mind you, he has little of that.

But his simple love is stunning.

In his novel &#8216;Galapagos&#8216;, Kurt Vonnegut imagined a world in which humans had devolved themselves into sea going mammals. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodgleghorn.com&blog=1373554&post=63&subd=rodgleghorn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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