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March 18, 2012April 18, 2020

Arlington Ohio Girls Basketball State Champs!

image of Arlington school nickname the Red Devils

The Arlington Ohio Girls Basketball team, making its first appearance in the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) tournament, won the Division IV state girls basketball title on Saturday (3/17). They dominated Berlin Hiland from the start and never trailed. Congrats to the Red Devils for an excellent season and bringing a title back to Hancock county and the Blanchard Valley Conference.

The final score was Arlington 52 Berlin Hiland 37. It is the first state team title for Arlington High School.

March 12, 2012April 18, 2020

Framing Humanism Is Okay But Not At The Expense Of Honesty

Humanism is a strange collection of individuals in a stew of rationality, all of us looking for the truth for our world view. We, as Humanists, know we must work with believers and other theists to find common ground with the goal of bettering the human condition. Andy Norman, writing for the Humanist Network News, an e-zine of the American Humanist Association, tries to offer tips for dialogue on Humanism to non-humanists but does so by giving up honesty in the process.

Norman, in his essay “Framing Humanism, or How to Win the Culture War”, starts out great by explaining how we as Humanists could do a better job of bringing in new people or at least getting our message out by the use of Framing (where we control the meaning of our message), but then my alarm bells start going off when I read this:

March 9, 2012April 18, 2020

Before You Fall In Love With The ‘KONY 2012’ Video…

There is a viral video called “KONY 2012” by the group Invisible Children highlighting Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda – this is the same group that Rush Limbaugh supported simply because of the group’s name. It seems the group behind the effort to bring Kony down has not been completely honest about their full agenda.

Here is a short video discussing the “KONY 2012” effort:

February 20, 2012April 18, 2020

Nattering Nabobs Of Negativity: Know your GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates

image of final four GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates

The other day I created the image seen on the right of these words. “Nattering Nabobs Of Negativity: Know your GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates” which gave nicknames for each of the final four Republican Presidential Candidates of 2012. Then I had an idea of creating a short slide show set to some funky music. Enjoy a unique look at the four men who want to be President of the United States.

Nattering Nabobs Of Negativity:
Know your GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates

February 12, 2012April 18, 2020

Eurythmics Mended My Broken Heart

A classic human milestone is one’s first broken heart. It can happen at any age but it does happen to all of us at some point. My first broken heart was during my college years when my first real love didn’t share the same feelings for me that I had for her. I hit a very rough patch that took several months to heal. It also probably cost me two friendships as they got tired of my blubbering depression and needing to talk about the event incessantly. Lucky for me I had the Eurythmics on my record player for much of that tough time and their songs helped mend my broken heart.

I had been a fan of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart since “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” but there were two albums specifically that got me through my melancholy: “Be Yourself Tonight” (1985) and “Revenge” (1986). I had picked them up at a local record store and already had dubbed them to a blank cassette so I could listen to the music while walking to class.