Dan Bodine

By Dan Bodine   Can’t help but add a personal note (concerning both an incident in my own life and that of a late El Paso neighbor) after reading Wendy Murray’s God Bless the Broken People recently in her popular patheos.com blog. The topic was mental illnesses’ Big D disease–Depression. The World Health Organization, I’d [...]

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By Dan Bodine   Everybody wants to put in their two cents on the current gun rights furor. Here’s a half-cent of mine. Elongated, of course. Hee, hee! Instead of a right to keep and use arms, make it a privilege instead. Just like driving. (Yep, used this line for years in courts with yáhoos [...]

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By Dan Bodine   One of my pet peeves against social minimalists is their shallow homage to the old saying, What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, too! ‘Yea, Yea, Yea’ they say, as long as there’s not any ‘skin off my back.’ But it’s ‘Nay, nay, nay’ if’n you want me [...]

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By Dan Bodine     It’s not often you’ll find Catholic doctrine lining up with conservative Libertarian economics against radical capitalism, but that sure seems the case with the late Pope John II’s view on America’s war against Iraq, some posted internet stories circulating now indicate. Furthermore, those views along with the contentious invasion issue [...]

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