Jeffrey C. Long

Been needing to post this for some time. Have an extended rant on the subject coming someday soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to post the Free Culture book site so that you can download it and read it if you want. The topic is the importance of elements of culture being available to [...]

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I recently added my blogroll to the site. A blogroll is a list of the blogs that I frequent. In my case, I have a program on my pocketpc that automatically downloads the content of these sites so that I can read them at my leisure. One of the sites that I’d like to highlight [...]

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Written from the class “Literacy across the Curriculum.” A dialogue just ensued between myself and the professor over the the purpose of an author’s intent in determining the meaning of a text. It was prompted by the reading of a poem from which no apparent meaning could be discerned, which was left as an example [...]

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Written prior to a college class Today the supreme court decided to sidestep the church/state challenge of the statement “one nation under God” found in the United States Pledge of Allegiance declaring that the lawsuit was not proper because the litigant did not have legal authority to question the appropriateness of his daughter’s education. Pundits [...]

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I am occassionally asked if I have seen the movie “The Passion of the Christ,” and when I answer that I haven’t many wonder why. My answer is two-fold. The first is that I have a very hard emotional time with fictional movies of true events. “Titanic” did me in for an entire week emotionally. [...]

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What an odd combination of words to put together. Yet these three events hold one thing in common. They are instances in which people form spontaneous community. Some of you may not know how community is formed in some of these, so a brief explanation is in order.

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My town of Soap Lake is trying to build a 60ft. Lava lamp. At first, I thought this was completely goofy, but the more I think of it the more cool I think it could be. viva la lamp. for more go to the official giant lava lamp site. Be sure to check out the [...]

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