Monthly Archives: May 2011

Decoration Day

Posted on 05/30/2011, 12:22 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Sleep, comrades, sleep and rest On this Field of the Grounded Arms, Where foes no more molest, Nor sentry’s shot alarms! Ye have slept on the ground before, And started to your feet At the cannon’s sudden roar, Or the … Continue reading →

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Dylan’s Top 40 (At 70)

Posted on 05/23/2011, 10:02 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Bob Dylan turns 70 tomorrow. Happy birthday to the maestro. In that spirit, here’s my off-the-cuff Bob Dylan All-Time Top 40. Feel free to leave a comment below listing your own faves. 1.) “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan Live … Continue reading →

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A Rapture Deferred

Posted on 05/22/2011, 3:11 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I guess there is not a whole lot of point to piling onto the saps who bought what radio host Harold Camping was selling–that yesterday was supposed to bring about the end of the world. Still, it is hard to … Continue reading →

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Sanity Break

Posted on 05/20/2011, 9:32 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I know, it’s so damned sad. But it’s among the greatest songs I know, by one of the greatest songwriters I know, Gene Clark.

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Least Shocking Minn. News Story of the Day Award Goes To…

Posted on 05/20/2011, 10:02 am, by Kevin Featherly

The National Journal just put this alert out in one of its voluminous daily email epistles: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will move from an “exploratory” presidential campaign to a full-fledged one next week. Pawlenty will do so Monday in … Continue reading →

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Why No UU Mega-churches?

Posted on 05/19/2011, 2:57 pm, by Kevin Featherly

The Unitarian Universalist Association includes a number of large churches, but no “mega-churches.” Why? As Rev. Dr. David Breeden explains in the video below, it’s partly because UU fellowships aren’t great proselytizers. We don’t go door to door spreading the … Continue reading →

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R.I.P., Killer

Posted on 05/17/2011, 1:43 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Twins great Harmon Killebrew has died. Never met the man, much to my regret. From all accounts he was a real gentleman. I didn’t grow up a Twins fan. I was swayed by the 1975 World Series to love the … Continue reading →

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Boogaard: A Response

Posted on 05/15/2011, 10:39 am, by Kevin Featherly

A thoughtful reader, Christopher Robin Zimmerman, writes in to criticize a post in which I said: …what would surprise me least would be to learn that [NHL "enforcer" Derek] Boogard’s death was a suicide, and that a brain study later … Continue reading →

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Boogaard’s Sad Death

Posted on 05/14/2011, 4:10 pm, by Kevin Featherly

First we find out that Harmon Killebrew is ending his fight to survive esophageal cancer, then we find out that 28-year-old NHL player Derek Boogaard was found dead last night in his Minneapolis apartment. A few hours ago I posted … Continue reading →

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Rockin’ the Mighty Milkshakes

Posted on 05/13/2011, 8:25 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Stumbled on this almost by accident. I’ve been trying to find a copy of this song since I was in college, and never found it. Now, at long last, I’ve located it on YouTube. I realize now there are two … Continue reading →

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