Is there a song about your city/town?

If so, it may be reflected in a Spotify database of 7,681 songs behind an interactive map created by Javier Arce. There are 212 cities represented. Check it out. I’m disappointed there’s only one song for Hawai’i, since there are about a million of them. It is a pretty good song, though.

Another domino falls

Headline: Presbyterians approve gay marriage in church constitution The new wording for the church Book of Order will read, “Marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and a woman, to love and support each other for the rest of their lives.” That’s roughly 10,000 congregations and about 1.8 million members. That …

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Another hostage situation in Congress? Really?

Lemme get this straight. Senator McConnell and the Republicans think they’ll appeal to women by adding an anti-abortion provision to a human trafficking bill? A provision the Democrats say was slipped in after they’d agreed to the previous language of the bill? Then when the Democrats balk McConnell says he’ll hold up a vote on …

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The dignified Senate

Right. That legislative body which just found 47 members willing to tell a foreign country that the current President’s negotiations with that country don’t meet with their approval. Can you say “unseemly?” How about “unprecedented?” How about “close to sedition?” President Obama reacted coolly, saying in part it was odd to find a group of …

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