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Doyle's Blog: Fun

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Monday, March 22, 2010. Today, for whatever reason, I got to thinking up jump-rope rhymes. Stole a smooch from Sarah Palin. Started to holler “Saints preserve us! 8221; ’n. Welcomes all the high school grads in. Fish week hoe down. Challenge her to a samba showdown. In a race to eat a pretzel. Land on your tush. Pass out just like President Bush. I love you just like a stalker. Name my kid Marcel Duchamp. There’s no lap pool. We baptize with Diet Snapple. Just too bad it draws the flies. I must alert you.

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Doyle's Blog: Cartoon

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Monday, January 31, 2011. I've got about six weeks to get my submissions written for this year's National Communication Association convention. Two of my papers will be quick and dirty, but one is a sustained scholarly effort. What's below is my attempt to sketch what I think the final product will look like, to give myself some guidance. If you have a thought, do feel free to share it. The important bit: the Christian life is relational. That every message has a content. Dimension and a relational.

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Doyle's Blog: Fracture

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Let's get the hard-to-believe part right out in the open: I'm a far-left academic who votes Green whenever possible, and today, what I want more than anything is for the Republican party to become more powerful and win lots of elections. I've strayed from my original challenge, so let me bring it back to center: please. Win in 2016. Please build a juggernaut of a campaign machine. Make it powerful, compelling, and most of all sustainable. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Doyle's Blog: Continuity

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Thursday, May 31, 2012. The mistake we make again and again is declaring an end to history. We think, My entire life has built to this moment, to my current understanding, and there is no future. I will never again be surprised, pleasantly or not. I will never again learn. This spring, I've found myself in more discussions with people who think that our consensus, authorized, "safe" account of what the Bible teaches cannot, must not, will never. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To My Podcast.

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Doyle's Blog: Gifts

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Thursday, July 16, 2015. I have a thing I do on Facebook every year, on my birthday, and this is why I do it. What I do is change the settings so people can't post to my wall, and then I put up a post that asks them to reply and share one memory of me. Doesn't have to be earth-shattering, funny, or a good story; it can be just a sentence long. And they say "Fine," you've exchanged phatics. If you ask "How're you doing? What I worry about is something I'll call "phatic creep," the slow desertification of ...

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Doyle's Blog: More fun

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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. This is a sequel to this post. I've done a bunch more jumprope rhymes since then, so here they are:. Tried to kill Darth. Vader with her cotton twill scarf. Tragically, he died unkissed. Word about the one Messiah. If there's caffeine in his vein. Neither will she microwave us. Lessons, we'll wind up sagacious! Unlike Mary, she’s no Jewess. Every day she’s here, Lew-dawging! Meeting people is his hobby. Moved to Michael Jackson's Thriller. Off His feet entirely swept.

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Doyle's Blog: Montmajour

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Tuesday, September 10, 2013. So I have Ménière's disease. The good news is that it's not fatal, and it does not involve pain. Discomfort, yes; pain, no. The bad news is that I may wind up deaf in both ears and completely disabled. I'm already partly deaf in my left ear, and have had three attacks of dizziness. I held off until the audiologist tested me, and she confirmed that the bottom notes in my left ear are mostly gone, which is a. Oh, and I get to donate my brain to Harvard! Or a diagnosis, or somet...

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Doyle's Blog: Round numbers

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Saturday, January 29, 2011. I don't know if anything like this happened when I was ten years old. My memory doesn't reach back that far. But when I was twenty, I hit a fork in the road, followed by a comparable fork at thirty and forty, and now I honestly wonder what's going on. This was it, was what I'd always wanted, dreamed about, and I had it. About ninety days later, give or take, I turned twenty. About ninety days after that, give or take, I quit debate for the first time. I came back for a...Third...

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Doyle's Blog: Expectations

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Sunday, May 27, 2012. Two things I've heard people say they admire about politics are, to be blunt, idiotic. The first is direct language, and the second is ideological consistency. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe To My Podcast. Letter of Recommendation, Courtesy of Myself.

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Doyle's Blog: Summertime

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Sunday, May 27, 2012. So back in summer of 2010, it was jump-rope rhymes. This morning, my philosophy professor colleague and former pastor was working on the eulogy for someone he barely knows, and it struck me funny that you could write quick little two-line, grossly inappropriate eulogies. Here are my first attempts, and you are invited to share your own in the comments:. Don't get too big a whiff. Your loved one's now a stiff! Don't hope she sits up. Your loved one's gone tits-up. Time to chuck it;.