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¡Cecilieaux!: January 2015
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Musings of a contrarian. Friday, January 30, 2015. I've figured out the Charlie Hebdo killings. Broadly speaking, I've figured out a theory that explains the Charlie Hebdo killings. Obviously, it doesn't involve the specter of murdering Muslims haunting Europe, so bandied in the popular media. The ancient Romans had a method of inquiry for dealing with events of this nature in which the actors were known, but the motives and implications murky. They asked: Qui bono. Think about it. The price of oil h...
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¡Cecilieaux!: Where's My Ice Floe?
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Musings of a contrarian. Tuesday, February 07, 2006. Where's My Ice Floe? Although the senilicide attributed to Eskimos was never actually a generalized custom, but rather an exceptional emergency response to famine in the 18th century, the idea captures my imagination. From my years in Canada I have learned that freezing to death is, among ways to die, relatively pleasant. Cold overcomes consciousness, one drifts into a sleep from which one never awakes. All in a matter of hours. Cecilieaux Bois de Muri...
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¡Cecilieaux!: Why do the heathen rage?
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Musings of a contrarian. Sunday, July 05, 2009. Why do the heathen rage? Taking a leaf from Chani's Sacred Life Sunday. Series, our text this morning is Psalm 2:1. In the words of the King James translation, it runs "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? There used to be a religious advertisement in The Washington Post. That contained a small "column" sermonette by some Protestant evangelical that was perennially headlined Why Do the Heathen Rage? The kings of the earth set themse...
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¡Cecilieaux!: Happy Birthday, Dr. King!
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Musings of a contrarian. Monday, January 15, 2007. Happy Birthday, Dr. King! And I want to thank God, once more,. For allowing me to be here with you. You know, several years ago I was in New York City. Autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books,. A demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King? And I was looking down writing and I said, "Yes.". The next minute I felt something beating on my chest. But the...
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¡Cecilieaux!: The Worst Thing You Can Do To Your Lover
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Musings of a contrarian. Sunday, February 05, 2006. The Worst Thing You Can Do To Your Lover. What's the worst thing you can do to the person you love? Or even, oh, it's been a month. Marriage is the worst thing you could do to someone you love. Joni Mitchell sings it well:. We don't need no piece of paper. From the city hall. Keeping us tied and true. In fact, the piece of paper fails to keep 50% of all marriages from divorce - let alone prevent physical and emotional forms of adultery and domestic viol...
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¡Cecilieaux!: December 2014
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Musings of a contrarian. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Why is it "death" when cops kill black men, but "murder" when a black man kills two cops? I checked. Barack Obama repeatedly referred to the "death" of Michael Brown and of Eric Garner, with all the politically required sorrowful noises. Yet when it was non-black policemen who were killed, he used the m-word. Where was this moral certitude when cops were the killers? Yet it was murder, too, in the cases of Brown and Garner. Those acts should have been ...
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¡Cecilieaux!: Lip Service confirms I should have been a Lesbian
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Musings of a contrarian. Saturday, April 18, 2015. Lip Service confirms I should have been a Lesbian. More than a bit enamored by the BBC's 2010-11 series Lip Service, I awake thinking of my bed companion as one of the characters. I even call her Frankie and ask, "Fancy a shag? As Frankie Alan and Laura Fraser. Lip Service is about a group of thirtysomething high-pheromone lipstick lesbians (i.e., not butch) in Glasgow. Can't get enough of those Scottish accents! Intriguing at the very least. Moreover, p...
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¡Cecilieaux!: February 2015
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Musings of a contrarian. Wednesday, February 04, 2015. To live, perchance to grow down. I have settled on "growing down" as a description of the next 30 years of my life ("if, if, if, cry the green bells of Cardiff"). A childhood of sorts is coming on, a slow losing of touch with reality as my hearing deteriorates (the world is too noisy, anyway). How long before my eyesight goes, my sense of smell, my ability to feel? Even in the richest countries. Posted by Cecilieaux Bois de Murier. Links to this post.
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¡Cecilieaux!: Remembering the Forgotten
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Musings of a contrarian. Monday, April 30, 2007. Instead of the self-imposed silence of blogs over the media-fabricated bathos surrounding the shooting at Virginia Tech, today I would like to dedicate my blog to the death of someone I knew, who died as part of a significant tragedy for an entire generation of an entire continent. Her name was Constanza Paz, although I always called her Connie. I met her in 1969 in Buenos Aires when she was 17, just like me. Her aunt told me, when I ran into her by chance...
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¡Cecilieaux!: Le Socialisme Americain
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Musings of a contrarian. Friday, July 18, 2008. When I picked up my newspaper yesterday, I thought I woke up in France. But no, it turns out socialism is alive and well in America. Sen Jim Bunning (R-Ky) at the Senate Banking Committee. Not a yearly month-long vacation for everyone, a 35-hour work week and freedom from worry about affording health care or old age. Can't have that! Yet not just France has dabbled quite nicely in socialism, without Gulag, without bread lines. Britain, Spain, Germany, I...
