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Review: When You Buy a Goat from a Charity, You May Not Actually Give a Goat

Charity Christmas catalogs are here and many want you to give an animal for a needy family. World Vision and Gospel for Asia are two catalogs which arrived recently. I wouldn’t give a nickel to GFA but if I gave to national charities, I would consider World Vision (with this caution – almost all of my donating is local). Since the Christmas giving season is underway, I thought a little review from two years ago might be helpful. Here I reprint a post about animal giving to World Vision from 2014.
Reprinted from December 5, 2014:
Pop quiz, gentle readers.
When you donate money to buy a goat from the World Vision catalog, who gets that goat?
Answer in the comments section; base your answer on the screen capture of this online page from the World Vision website.
If you provide any more information about this appeal, please provide your source.
More to come this afternoon…
I asked World Vision for an answer to this question. Amy Parodi, spokeswoman for the organization, told me:

When people purchase a goat from the World Vision gift catalog, their donation goes into a pool of money designated to purchase livestock and related agricultural projects, including goats.  Those animals are then distributed to families participating in World Vision animal husbandry programs in a variety of countries around the world.
We use the slightly broader categories because it’s nearly impossible to encourage the exact number of donations to match the exact need for specific animals in our programs, but it’s still critical that we honor our donors’ intentions with their gifts.
The “related agricultural projects” I mentioned above are efforts that help families care for the animals they’ve been given.  Providing watering sources, farming assistance, famine relief and other essentials help families truly benefit from their livestock.
If people want to give to a general fund, the World Vision catalog has an item called “Where Most Needed.”  These donations are placed into programs – in any country and within any sector of World Vision’s work – that are partially funded and need more resources to be fully operational.

I appreciate this answer. The one on the website is less clear than this.

We promise to honor your generosity and use your donation in the most effective way possible. The needs shown in this catalog reflect World Vision projects at the time of writing and the suggested donation amounts are based on periodic surveys of the countries we serve. Each item is representative of the gift category in which it appears and donations will be used to provide assistance where it is needed most within that category or to address a similar need.

The multiplying effect from grants and donated goods may change throughout the year on identical or similar offers due to variations in the start and end dates of donor grants and our programs. calls an approach like this a donor illusion. Although I might not go that far, I can understand how some could be disillusioned when they thought they were buying an animal for a family. Many people I have spoken with believe that is what the promotion promises and that the fine print should be a bigger part of the promotion.
I am not saying the money goes into questionable places. I believe it is necessary to support the efforts with education and training. I do wonder how many animals are requested versus how many are purchased. And I wonder how much the Christmas push to purchase an animal raises as compared to how much is spent to purchase animals.  However, I do know that some people get animals and that much of the money does go into assisting needy people.
So if you thought you were buying an animal for a needy child/family, now you know some of the rest of the story.
Additional information:
You can also give nativity animals according to the print catalog. While I understand the explanation given by Ms. Parodi, I wonder if it is pushing it to ask, “What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ than to share those same animals so that families can prosper?”
Also read More Facts about Buying Animals from World Vision

Voting for an Independent Candidate Is an Acceptable Option

Recently, several big name Christian leaders have made a case that a vote for a third party/independent candidate is a waste of a Christian’s vote and will only serve to elect Hillary Clinton. Dire warnings and shaming accompany these appeals.
Here are several reasons I disagree and believe that voting for an independent or minor party candidate is a good option.*

  1. No one owns or is entitled to my vote and support. If the GOP and Democrat parties put up unqualified and unfit candidates, I am not obligated to support one of them. In this instance, for different reasons, I believe Clinton and Trump are equally unacceptable.
  2. There is no biblical mandate to support one party or another in a two party system. The two party system is not divinely inspired.
  3. Party loyalty was considered a problem by some of our key founding fathers. In his 1796 farewell address, Washington warned about party spirit. He said, “There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.”
  4. A viable third or even fourth major party would be a benefit to the nation and allow representation for important viewpoints now stifled by the two-party system.
  5. At some point, an independent party must gain votes from citizens to gain viability. An independent movement will not grow unless citizens cast a ballot for independent candidates running for office. This election featuring two of the most unpopular candidates in history is a good opportunity for citizens to exercise their right to declare a pox on both houses.
  6. From the perspective of someone who doesn’t support either Clinton or Trump, now is the time to declare independence from the two-party stranglehold on what is possible.
  7. I don’t believe a sufficient case has been made by evangelical Trump supporters that Clinton will destroy the country. While I think the Republic will survive Trump, I think his weaknesses may actually be more dangerous to our safety than Clinton’s. Having said that, I believe both candidates bring unacceptable qualities to the table.
  8. My position has nothing to do with “moral preening” or “fig leaves” or some other self-righteous way to dismiss reasoning which results in support for an independent candidate.

From my point of view, voting third party/independent is the long run option. We must start somewhere and now seems like as good a time as any. In any case, no advocate for holding one’s nose and voting for Trump has been able to provide a biblical basis for staying with the status quo. That is because there isn’t such a basis. The Bible doesn’t address a republic such as ours and only endorses the selection of moral and upright people as rulers. If anything, the Bible promotes the selection of upright people for leadership. Other than independent candidates, there is no real option to exercise that value this year.
Some (e.g., Wayne Grudem, Eric Metaxas) have suggested that pragmatic voting is how we should proceed. They believe God (and in Metaxas’ case Bonhoeffer) would get behind Trump because the consequences will be better in a Trump administration. This position requires an omniscience which no human possesses. No one knows what the consequences of each selection will be and it is presumptuous to assert that one does know. Since these pragmatists don’t have a direct line to God, we cannot accept their warnings and guilt trips as inspired revelation.
If you think Donald Trump has made a good case for himself, vote for him. If you think Hillary Clinton has made a good case for herself, vote for her. However, if you believe neither candidate is acceptable, then find someone you support and vote for that person with thanksgiving that you have the right to do so.
*Full disclosure – I favor independent candidate Evan McMullin.

Donald Trump's Campaign Manager Whipping Up Hysteria Over Voting Machines (UPDATED)

This tweet from Kellyanne Conway is highly irresponsible and may serve to gum up the works at polls around the country.
Here is what she tweeted (by the way Eric Metaxas retweeted this – see below).

Trump partisans on social media are going absolutely insane over the report of one woman in TX who said her vote for the Republican ticket was changed to a vote for Clinton. With the Trump campaign fueling the fire, Trump fans are insisting on paper ballots because now they are whipping up distrust of voting machines (allegedly linked to George Soros).
According an Amarillo news report, there has been only one report of an irregularity — the woman who reported it on Facebook. Election officials at the polling location in Randall County — most of whom are Republican — report that the machine test out fine and votes aren’t being changed.

Concerns first appear to have come to light from a Randall County woman who posted on Facebook, “I voted a straight Republican ticket and as I scrolled to submit my ballot I noticed that the Republican Straight ticket was highlighted, however, the clinton/kaine box was also highlighted! I tried to go back and change and could not get it to work. I asked for help from one of the workers and she couldn’t get it to go back either. It took a second election person to get the machine to where I could correct the vote to a straight ticket. Be careful and double-check your selections before you cast your vote! Don’t hesitate to ask for help. I had to have help to get mine changed.”
Randall County Elections Administrator Shannon Lackey said what likely happened was that the machines allow for crossover votes, where a voter can select a straight-ticket ballot, but are still permitted to change their vote in individual elections for candidates of other parties.
Lackey went on to say that this is the sixth election that the machines have been used in Randall County.
“All of our machines are state- and federal-
certified,” Lackey said. “Other states use them, and they are used in many other counties in Texas. We can prove it (a machine) hasn’t been tampered with. We do extensive testing; the machine can’t change votes. It wasn’t anything on purpose from either side, but we are glad to clear the air on the issue.”
Huntley confirmed Tuesday there no issues with equipment on the first day of early voting.

I can imagine now that worried Trump voters will demand paper ballots or take longer to vote, thus lengthening wait times at the polls. At the least, now the more conspiracy minded of the Trump clan will have yet another campaign-endorsed reason to question a Trump defeat.
Calling the election results into question without evidence is staggeringly irresponsible and I call on Trump supporters among my evangelical tribe to stop it. Please check things out before you pass along misinformation.
Metaxas retweet voting booth
Fox News is linking the interest in this story to machines allegedly owned by a George Soros owned company.

According to this Business Insider report, the voting machine maker isn’t owned by Soros and they won’t be used in this year’s election (check out Smartmatic’s website on these topics).
Actor James Woods is spreading the insanity:

Faculty and Freedom of Expression at Liberty University

Two articles are out today (Atlantic and Politico Magazine) featuring the petition launched at Liberty University to protest Jerry Falwell, Jr’s vocal support for Donald Trump. I posted that letter when it came out.
The student protest doesn’t represent a majority of LU students it seems, but their bravery is having an impact.
Politico Magazine’s article seems more pointedly focused on the anxiety felt by Liberty faculty about speaking on the record. No Liberty faculty would go on the record for either publication. Brandon Ambrosino, writing for Politico featured many comments from faculty about their job concerns if they spoke their mind.
Ambrosino also highlighted the case of Mark DeMoss who was asked to step down from a committee of the Liberty board of directors over his critical comments about Falwell’s Trump endorsement made in the Washington Post.  DeMoss later resigned altogether from the board. Ambrosino cited my blog post on that event.

Evangelical blogger Warren Throckmorton, who regularly writes about Christian higher education, offered a similar thought. “I wonder why it is acceptable to the Liberty board for Jerry Falwell to endorse a candidate as an individual not speaking for the university, but it is not fine for a board member [Mark DeMoss] to express an opinion as an individual not speaking for the university.”

The Atlantic article by Emma Green provides an in depth look at the student body at Liberty. She described the protest effort but also interviewed students who support Trump. Although stated differently than Ambrosino, I think both articles paint a picture that those faculty opposed to Trump or who speak in favor of center-left positions on various matters are right to fear for their jobs. I don’t say that due to the absence of tenure or the fact that all employees serve at the pleasure of the administration. It is also the behavior of the president and board of directors that matters. If Mark DeMoss can be marginalized at Liberty over an expression of his viewpoint, then who is safe?

Eric Metaxas Illustrates What Evangelicals Need to Correct

As the Donald Trump saga nears the end, it will be good to reflect on what can be learned. One thing I hope for is a backlash against false or misleading information being used by evangelicals to make their political points.
Case in point:

Of course, this kind of thing has been going on for years. However, after so many people have been repeatedly misled by so called thought leaders, I hope more evangelicals wake up to the need for simple fact checking.
On this story, Michelle Goldberg contacted the source.

So I called him. Masada told me that on Nov. 11, he got a call from a man named John—he doesn’t remember the last name—who sounded “distinguished, like an attorney.” John said he represented the Clinton campaign. He asked Masada “who had put him up” to posting the video. In a menacing voice, he told Masada, “This is not good for your business.” John then asked for the email or phone numbers of the five comedians who were featured in the video. “I told him, ‘Eff you,’ and I hung up,” says Masada.

That’s it. That’s all I could find to support the story. Even if this “John” had some connection to the Clinton campaign, it doesn’t mean Mrs. Clinton put him up to it. In any case, this hearsay is not sufficient evidence to go with a news report or even an advocacy piece (as Judicial Watch did).
Metaxas should be ashamed to spread around unsubstantiated reports in this manner and then indict the media over it. We do have a free press and Michelle Goldberg did her job. Apparently, Metaxas didn’t check it out or only believes those who report what he already believes.
To be taken seriously, evangelical leaders must become more skeptical and better fact checkers.
Update: Let’s not forget that Donald Trump doesn’t appear to have a sense of humor.

Some Questions about Victor Davis Hanson's Case for Trump

A week ago at National Review Online, Victor Davis Hanson made a case that conservatives should vote for Donald Trump. Hanson is clearly my better when it comes to scholarship, but I wasn’t convinced by his essay. Provoked by his article, I have some questions for anyone who wants to defend the case for Trump with Hanson’s essay.
Why does Hanson minimize Donald Trump’s statements on the Access Hollywood audio?
Instead of saying Trump described sexual assault, Hanson said Trump “crudely talked about women” and displayed “crude sexual braggadocio.” All words. Not nice words, but words. However, eleven women have now come forward to say Trump did to them exactly what he claimed he did. Trump denies any bad action but given the actions specifically described on the audio, I have to wonder why Hanson didn’t mention this.
Hanson marshals Bill Clinton’s moral failings to suggest Trump should not be disqualified due to his moral failings. If I disqualified Trump solely based on his moral flaws then this might have some weight. However, as crude as Trump is, I feel he is disqualified for additional reasons.
Why does Hanson fail to fully describe how Trump is expanding the GOP via friendly overtures to white supremacists?
Hanson says Trump should be poised for victory in part because he has:

…apparently brought back to the Republican cause millions of the old Reagan Democrats, various tea-partiers, and the working classes

Although these groups are a part of Trump’s fans, Hanson doesn’t include the white supremacists in Trump’s coalition.
When it was discovered that then presidential hopeful Rand Paul hired a member of the League of the South for his campaign, the scandal was clear and the staffer was fired. When lowly Michael Peroutka sought a county commissioner’s seat, he had to drop out the League of the South to save his campaign. Now, the Trump campaign can invite white nationalists to campaign events and the Republican National Convention with nary a scratch. Trump has made the alt-right mainstream and this doesn’t even merit a mention in Hanson’s case for Trump, save for one reference to Trump being “insensitive” to minorities.
Why does Hanson fail to account for William Buckley’s prior writing on Trump?
Hanson invokes Buckley but fails to address Buckley’s own words on Trump. Trump has not changed much since Buckley wrote a column on the subject. Furthermore, Buckley wrote about the voter’s “quiet veto”:

In other ages, one paid court to the king. Now we pay court to the people. In the final analysis, just as the king might look down with terminal disdain upon a courtier whose hypocrisy repelled him, so we have no substitute for relying on the voter to exercise a quiet veto when it becomes more necessary to discourage cynical demagogy, than to advance free health for the kids. That can come later, in another venue; the resistance to a corrupting demagogy should take first priority.

I intend to use my quiet veto in keeping with Buckley’s advice.
How can Hanson be sure that Trump will bring to power competent conservatives who will actually have influence?
Hanson seems to think we can divorce a vote for Trump from the hypothesized benefit a Trump administration will bring.

The issue, then, at this late date is not necessarily Trump per se, but the fact that he will bring into power far more conservatives than would Hillary Clinton. No one has made a successful argument to challenge that reality.

Let there be no mistake, Eric Metaxas aside, a vote for Trump is a vote for Trump. We are not talking about a meek person. Trump has shown very little willingness to be coached. He has routinely undercut his running mate on matters of policy. He is for an idea as long as he thought of it, because as he says, he has a “very good brain.”
While I must concede that Trump might appoint a few good people, I don’t believe this possibility offsets the harm to conservative principles already done and potential additional harm of a Trump administration to those principles and to the nation.
Why is Hanson willing to declare Trump and Clinton equally corrupt without seeing Trump’s tax returns?
Hanson correctly lists Hillary’s offenses and implies they are worse than Trump’s. However, Hanson doesn’t address the fact that Trump has not released his tax returns nor does he call for it. Say what you want about the Clintons, one can trace their money more easily than one can do the same with Trump’s. It is incredible that Trump will complete his campaign without the release of his returns. The fact is Hanson doesn’t know as much about Trump as he does Clinton and he is fine with that.
Why is Hanson willing to give Trump a pass on his private sector failings and his contradictory policy declarations?
Not only does Hanson have a different standard with regard to Trump’s tax returns, he also advocates giving him a pass on his behavior as a businessman. Hanson writes:

We worry about what Citizen Trump did in the past in the private sector and fret more over what he might do as commander-in-chief. But these legitimate anxieties remain in the subjunctive mood; they are not facts in the indicative gleaned from Clinton’s long public record. As voters, we can only compare the respective Clinton and Trump published agendas on illegal immigration, taxes, regulation, defense spending, the Affordable Care Act, abortion, and other social issues to conclude that Trump’s platform is the far more conservative — and a rebuke of the last eight years.

This is perhaps the most perplexing portion of this case. If we cannot use Trump’s past to guide us, then what can we use? The platform? Trump’s statements? If so, which statements? The one where he said we should criminalize a woman for an abortion or the one where he said we shouldn’t? Should we believe, against all common sense and that nation’s stated policy, that Mexico will pay for the wall? Should we believe Trump when he said a single payer plan is a good idea or when he declares Obamacare is a disaster?
Why does Hanson talk Trump foreign policy risk without mentioning Russia?
It certainly appears that Trump has a thing for Putin. He seems to think Russia is helping with ISIS. Trump’s attitude toward Russia is troubling and worth at least some mention from someone trying to make a case that Trump is less dangerous than Clinton. I would want to have this be front and center in any case for Trump.
In fact, there was a significant difference between Trump and Clinton on Russia during the last debate. To me, Clinton seems to have the better read of what Russia is up to and I don’t think the U.S. should trust Russia in Syria or the Ukraine.
By the time I get to this question, it seems to me that one must minimize a lot of very important values to get to the case for Trump.

The Trump Campaign Calls for Breaking up Media Organizations

Supporters of Donald Trump warn that Hillary Clinton will weaken the Second Amendment. Perhaps they should worry first about the First Amendment. Read this campaign press release from Trump senior economic advisor Peter Navarro.

– OCTOBER 23, 2016 –

“Over a hundred years ago, a pro-business Teddy Roosevelt busted up more than 40 oil, railroad, steel and other “trusts” that were wielding their rapacious monopoly power to gouge consumers and interfere with the efficient functioning of the American economy. Donald Trump will break up the new media conglomerate oligopolies that have gained enormous control over our information, intrude into our personal lives, and in this election, are attempting to unduly influence America’s political process.
“The very corporations that have gained from shipping America’s factories and jobs offshore are the very same media conglomerates now pushing Hillary Clinton’s agenda. She is the official candidate of the multinational ruling elite.
“NBC, and its Clinton megaphone MSNBC, were once owned by General Electric, a leader in offshoring factories to China. Now NBC has been bought by Comcast, which is specifically targeting the Chinese market – even as Comcast’s anchors and reporters at MSNBC engage in their Never Trump tactics.
“AT&T, the original and abusive “Ma Bell” telephone monopoly, is now trying to buy Time Warner and thus the wildly anti-Trump CNN. Donald Trump would never approve such a deal because it concentrates too much power in the hands of the too and powerful few.
“The New York Times strings are being pulled by Mexico’s Carlos Slim, a billionaire who benefits from NAFTA and supports Hillary Clinton’s open border policies. Amazon, which controls the Washington Post, profits from the flow of illegally subsidized foreign products through its distribution channels. Lower costs mean higher margins — no matter if bad trade deals lead to massive unemployment in America.
“This oligopolistic realignment of the American media along ideological and corporate lines is destroying an American democracy that depends on a free flow of information and freedom of thought. Donald Trump will drain the swamp of corruption and collusion, standing against this trend and standing for the American people.” – Peter Navarro, Senior Economic Advisor

Even though Navarro has a PhD from Harvard, this press release has the smell of globalist conspiracy to it.  It seems to me that a free flow of information already exists and with the advent of blogging and alternative news sources, the big news organizations have lots of competition.
Navarro’s claim that CNN is “wildly anti-Trump” is just stupid. CNN has consistently and infuriatingly featured Trump surrogates or partisans in their news reporting from day one.  More than once, I have switched the channel due to the blatant lies told by Trump spokespeople which go inadequately challenged.
Threatening to intervene in the nation’s free press is just one more illustration that Trump isn’t the friend of the Constitution his supporters claim him to be.

A Call to Scholars and Writers Against Trump

A little over three weeks ago, a group called Scholars and Writers for America made a statement in favor of the candidacy of Donald Trump. Currently 156 Trump supporters have signed.
More recently in response, 152 scholars and writers have joined a group called Scholars and Writers Against Trump.  Very simply, the group affirms the following:

Scholars and Writers Against Trump

We are writers, academics, critics, historians, and authors who have voted for Republican presidents and candidates.

Given our choices in the presidential election, we believe that Donald Trump is the candidate most dangerous to our nation’s founding ideals. He is a unique and dire threat to the political principles, liberties, and cultural values of justice, fairness, honesty, and decency we have long defended. We urge you to vote, as we will, for someone else.

I am a signer and encourage others to consider doing so.
On point, recently a group of originalist Constitutional scholars confronted the belief among some conservatives that Trump would be the better candidate to uphold the Constitution.

Eric Metaxas Complains about Clinton Misquotes, Refuses to Correct the Quote He Misattributed to Bonhoeffer

During the debate between Clinton and Trump last night, Eric Metaxas tweeted the following:

Hillary said in passing that “America is great because America is good.” Although the quote is commonly associated with Tocqueville, it can’t be found in his works.
During the debate, Clinton did not attribute the quote to Tocqueville. However, Metaxas himself attributed that quote to Tocqueville in an advance copy of his new book If You Can Keep It. The attribution of the quote was corrected before publication.
I understand the analogy he tweeted. However, it is noteworthy that Metaxas complained about Clinton’s use of the quotation because he has his own quote snafu to resolve. Metaxas has yet to provide a source (or acknowledge the quote isn’t Bonhoeffer’s) for the following quote:

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

This quote is attributed to Bonhoeffer on the back flap of Metaxas’ biography of the German pastor. He also has referred to it in his speeches and tweets as well as his book on Miracles and a study edition of the Bonhoeffer bio. However, it cannot be found in Bonhoeffer’s works. I have contacted Metaxas and publisher Thomas Nelson but have yet to receive the courtesy of a reply.
Silence hands version
There is no disgrace in getting a quote wrong. Scholars do it frequently. The mark of a scholar is to correct the record quickly. To me, this seems especially important since Metaxas has lately taken to advancing Bonhoeffer in the cause of presidential politics. Despite our differences, I urge Metaxas to do the right thing and either provide his primary source for the quote or acknowledge the quote doesn’t come from Bonhoeffer.

Brief Note: Wallbuilders Still Refers to Dr. David Barton

Even though David Barton has gone quiet about his claim to have an earned doctorate, his Wallbuilders Facebook page still refers readers to his work under the byline Dr. David Barton.
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On the newly revamped Wallbuilders Live bio of Barton, reference to his BA at Oral Roberts University has been removed.
On September 7, Barton claimed in a video posted on his Facebook and You Tube accounts that he had an earned doctorate. However, the next day Barton removed the video and Facebook post without explanation. While Barton did not mention Life Christian University as the source of the degree on the original video, it appeared to be a LCU diploma. Later, LCU president Douglas Wingate confirmed that Barton’s doctorate came from LCU.
LCU awards what president Wingate calls earned degrees to famous Christians who never attend or graduate from the school.  Wingate examines their written works and other materials to award a doctorate based on life experience. Despite the face that awarding a degree solely based on life experience is one of the marks of a diploma mill, Wingate defiantly defends the practice.
Other LCU “distinguished degree holders” who did not attend or graduate from LCU include Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn, and Kenneth Copeland. Meyer prominently touts her “earned PhD in theology” on her website.


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The Portland Police Bureau announced on Thursday that the city will take down the 120-year-old Thompson Elk statue between Lownsdale and Chapman squares, across the street from the Multnomah County Justice Center, because protesters damaged its structure by setting it on fire.

On July 1, protesters lit fires at the base of the statue, police say. The Regional Arts & Culture Council determined the damage to the base so severe that the statue might topple over and injure someone.

"Engaging in criminal activity including vandalism and property damage is not peaceful demonstration," Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell said in a statement. "We ask for the public's help in identifying and sharing information about those responsible so they can be held accountable."

The bureau said the public restrooms in Lownsdale and Chapman squares near the elk statue were also damaged severely during protests.

The elk statue was erected in 1900 in honor of David P. Thompson, who served as mayor of Portland from 1881 to 1885, according to The Oregonian. It has regularly been at the center of protests—people climbed atop the animal to kiss during the last night of Occupy Portland protests, and protesters draped portions of a fence from its antlers last month.

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The Adventures of Caroline and Dorka

It would be so sad without her.Not to offend Lambada:)She's amazing too!I hope everyone is having fun showing or just having a dog.What do people without dogsdo?I can never understand that.Dogs are part of the family,part of your life.They are there during the good times and the bad.When you cry,they lick away your tears and always seem to say"Are you okay?Are you okay?Tell me everything!I'm here and I will listen to you.Come on,tell me.I'm dying to know".Oh,I just love them,every shape and size!Sorry,I'm so off topic!Well anyway that has so far been the adventures of Caroline and Dorka. Hopefully I'll get to write more about the Caledon show after we come back.

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IBB University Lapai: Set To Reopen The Institution

retaining in thoughts the situations given via the Presidential challenge pressure (PTF) on covid 19, for the safe reopening of tertiary establishments in Nigeria, many institutions have began getting ready to welcome students back to campus safely via ensuring that the ones conditions are fulfied earlier than resumption.
news simply reaching us states that the management of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida college, Lapai (IBBUL), has taken transport of two (semi) automatic stainless hand washing machines, face masks, and hand sanitisers supplied via the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Niger nation branch in other to assist the group cut back the unfold of Corona virus.
The items were supplied to the control of the organization on the Administrative Block of the university, by way of Pharmacist Olufemi Ogunmade, the vp, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Niger state department. He disclosed that the transport of the covid 19 preventive materials became in fulfilment of the pledge made by the Society all through its last carrier name on the control.
He referred to that the gesture became an illustration of the Society's health to accomplice with the university in its efforts closer to attaining the established order of the school of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Ogunmade assured the college management of persisted collaboration in its choice to build up programmes that would effect definitely in the lives of college students, and citizens at massive.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Abu Kasim Adamu, in receiving the items favored the kind gesture of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, (PSN), Niger state department, for figuring out with the university.
He reaffirmed that the management is ready for continuous engagement in meaningful partnership with professional our bodies inside the County. together with, Pharmaceutical Society a good way to growth the improvement drive of the university.
Professor Adamu also mentioned that the management might preserve to inquire other areas of viable collaborations, that would enhance the educational standard of the college, specially within the discipline of medical sciences.
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Reading history can occasionally slap one in the face.

The February 1913 issue of “The Monthly Historian,” authored by our great-grandfather A.L. Van Osdel, spoke of his 1867 visit to the grave of Chief War Eagle on the cliff overlooking the confluence of the Big Sioux and Missouri rivers. We now know it as the bluff on our left as we pass into Sioux City on Interstate 29.

Chief War Eagle’s son-in-law was Theophile Brugier, a French fur trader. When Chief War Eagle’s youngest daughter passed, he asked that she be buried on that bluff. Many days he would sit on the bluff at her grave and mourn his daughter.

 As he became ill in the autumn of 1851, the chief asked his friends to bury him with his favorite hunting pony next to the grave of his youngest daughter. The old chief wanted to continue to gaze at the mighty Missouri from the bluff.

Sioux City historians have placed a large statue of Chief War Eagle atop the bluff to mark his grave. When television came to our farm, we watched programming from Sioux City and they often mentioned Chief War Eagle’s monument. We looked for the monument as we passed on our way to Sioux City on rare occasions.

The name “Brugier” caught my attention. I used to visit with, and shoot snooker at Bud’s Snooker on Douglas Ave., now a restaurant called Happy Hourz, with a young man, Leonard Brugier, then a student at Yankton High School. He was a happy soul. He earned letters in football and track, graduating in 1963. He was a member of the VFW Teener team from Yankton in 1959 when they won the state Teener championship and later earned fourth place in the national tourney in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

 He penned his biography and lengthy American Indian heritage, to Chief War Eagle and Theophile Brugier, for the Yankton County History, a bi-centennial project of the Yankton County Historical Society, of which our second cousin, Ben Van Osdel, was then chairman.

Looking for more information about Leonard Brugier, Google gave me the bad news that Dr. Leonard R. Brugier had passed in 2009. He trained as a Marine at Camp Pendleton in 1965 and served six years in the Marines, including a tour in Viet Nam. Another veteran said that Brugier was usually ordered to serve “point” at the head of his column, his commanders supposing he would be a “natural” as a Native American to serve as scout.

After his Viet Nam service, Leonard Brugier earned a degree and served as a professor of American Indian Studies at USD.

Somewhere in his writings, our great-grandfather wrote than he was very proud to have purchased Gayville Township Section 20 along the Missouri River. The county township plat book makes that section appear somewhat bland. But through his considerable experience, conversations with old settlers and his research, he was sure that is the area where Lewis and Clark camped on their way up the Missouri.

While camped there, the explorers visited with the Indians and wrapped a newborn son of a chief in an American flag. The child was given the name “Struck by the Ree.” In his waning years, the chief was referred to as “Old Strike.”

“Old Strike” was a friend to the white settlers and helped keep the peace among younger braves during the 1862-1863 uprising.

Section 20 was at the location of the mouth of the James River at that time. Prior to the county plats of 1910, the James made an elbow turn and ran close along current four-lane Highway 50. If one looks closely at the topography, one can see the old riverbed coursing off to the southeast from where my great-great-grandparents homesteaded seven miles east of the old Yankton Post Office, or one mile east of the bridge.

Our great-great-grandfather operated a ferry across the lower James, called the “lower crossing” where the four-lane bridge stands. His neighbors, John and Bridget Stanage, ran a ferry four miles upstream. And, to access wooded property and farmland to the south of their homestead, our great-great-grandfather used a ferry to cross the James just south of their homestead.

In the late 1890s, the Missouri River boiled its way through that elbow and the James has since emptied upstream into the Missouri, cause for its slow flow. Prior to Gavins Point Dam, that old riverbed flooded every year when the melting snow runoff from the mountains in Wyoming and Montana finally made its way to our area and was called the June Rise, because the phenomenon occurred in June.

Having been raised on the Jim and the Missouri, this writer took printed umbrage with the water experts in Omaha when they announced they would simulate a “June Rise in May.” Have not heard much about that plan lately.

Another point of interest in one of “The Historian” issues makes time seem to flow faster. One of Yankton’s earliest residents, J.R. Hanson, reported that, in visiting with Chief “Old Strike” at his residence in Yankton, Hanson lamented the loss of a fancy gold pencil case.

Fifty years later, crews excavating footings for the new Merchants Hotel, (which we remember as the Stetson Hotel, home of Our Place Cafe) which replaced the original Ash Hotel at the northwest corner of Third and Broadway, the ditch diggers reported they had unearthed a fancy gold metal pencil case. It seems “Old Strike” was the first resident of the Meridian District.

It would be very interesting to know if Dr. Leonard Rufus Brugier has had the opportunity to meet his ancestors, Chief War Eagle and Theophile Brugier. Some day, we may learn — but not for a while, we hope.

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A robber threatened supermarket staff with what is believed to be a handgun before making off with cash.

The incident happened at Costcutter on Heworth Road at around 12.45pm on Wednesday (July 19).

A man, believed to be in his 20s, entered the shop and passed the cashier a note demanding money from the till.

He then showed the cashier what is described as a black handgun in the waistband of his trousers. The cashier handed him the contents of the till and he left the store.

Shop staff are said to be shaken by the events.

Police have issued this description of the robber.

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This incident happened in a relatively busy residential area at a time when people will have been out and about.

So if you saw anything suspicious, no matter how insignificant it may seem, we’d like to hear from you.

Detectives believe members of the public may have seen two men shouting nearby before running down Dales Lane.

One continued down Dales Lane while the other turned right and ran into Harrison Street. They want to speak to anyone who witnessed this.

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Starring a gentleman from York University Medieval Society, who is very much a method actor. His opponent smiles nervously as his sword is smashed to smithereens. Isn’t this against campus health and safety regulations?

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This dates back to Boxing Day 2013, when “Evangelist of fear, NESSIE” came to York for the day.

Nessie does the usual tourist trail – Stonegate, Shambles, the Yorkshire Terrier – but it’s the captions that make it. “The city of York town is made up of BC, Roman ruins remains.” Exactly.

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 But as the real estate ship rights itself and the job market steadies, Gen Y is more ready, willing and able to join the ranks of homeowners than ever before. Trulia shows people between the ages of 18-34 still believe in the concept of home ownership, and 65% of those surveyed said "their American Dream includes owning a home." Gen Y is also a group that is known to be defined by their Boomer "helicopter" parents. Certainly not every Boomer is a helicopter, and not every Y is defined by their parents. But Gen Y is more likely to seek the input of their parents for major decisions - like buying a home - than previous generations.

So, is this a bad thing? Not always. Gen Y can benefit from parents' insight to gain experience where they have little or none - asking for advice from someone you know and trust who has bought or sold a home it before is only natural. But they are also a group that knows what it wants, and it's not necessarily what their parents had.

For example, today's younger buyers are looking for walkability (one-third are willing to pay for the ability to walk), outdoor space but less lawn, open floor-plans, and less formality. They are not interested in bigger cookie-cutter homes of their parents that are far from amenities and expensive to maintain.   Many real estate professionals wince when they hear buyers say, "I'd like you to meet my parents!" This usually occurs at the time of the home inspection, but often before that. Some real estate professionals fear parents will instill doubt in their children's decision or derail a sale for reasons that do not align with the buyer's true vision. Generally speaking, I find that parents are a sounding board for their children - they ask a lot of questions (which is a good thing), sometimes they disagree with their kids, but mostly they are there for support - and maybe give a gentle kick to encourage their kids to leave the nest and settle into a nest of their own.

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Think about the first time you realized you mattered.

What happened? How did you feel?

Chances are your moment of mattering impacted and moved you. Most likely, you felt important because of what someone else said or did.

Feeling significant is a basic human desire and a critical factor for mental, emotional, and physical well-being in life, school, and work.

Mattering is also dependent on others, and fulfilling this vital human desire is a community endeavor.

In other words, others around you know they matter because of you.

So, what is mattering? Why is mattering so important? And, how can we learn to create the experience of mattering for others?

The Power of Mattering

For Jane, one sentence changed her perceptions of herself and her job. The self-worth that followed sustained her motivation and pride for 18 years.

Jane hopped around from one cleaning job to the next in what she described as a difficult life. After a family member she was caretaking for died, she knew she had to get a more stable job to survive.

That led her to take a custodial job at the university where I teach. When I spoke to Jane for a study on what makes work meaningful, I asked her, “Why did you stay?”

She told me that in her first training, a supervisor pulled out the dictionary and defined the word custodian for her as “a person who has responsibility for or looks after something.”

Despite being told her whole life that cleaning was an unskilled and dirty job, she said, “realizing I was looking after these buildings and everyone in them changed my belief patterns and has inspired me for the last eighteen years. I finally realized I mattered.”

Jane credits one sentence from a supervisor for fueling her energy and sense of self in work for 18 years.

Jane felt like she mattered.

The Science of Mattering

Researchers find mattering is the feeling that we’re a significant part of the world around us, it’s the belief that we’re noticed, important, and needed — right now.

While studies show experiencing mattering as Jane did increases a sense of self-worth and motivation, research also finds it reduces the risk of severe depression, anxiety, and can save lives.

First, mattering influences self-esteem, the confidence in one’s worth.

Researchers Robert Chavez and Todd Heatherton from Dartmouth College find self-esteem resides in the frontostriatal pathway of the brain. This pathway connects the medial prefrontal cortex, which deals with self-awareness, to the ventral striatum, which influences motivation.

Individuals with higher self-esteem seem to optimize this pathway, leading to more positive self-knowledge, self-worth, and increased internal motivation and energy.

Feeling significant is also found to increase serotonin levels, sometimes called the “confidence molecule” that influences overall mood and lowers anxiety.

Experiencing mattering also reaffirms that we contribute to others and that we have a purpose. A sense of purpose is associated with increased dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, also known as the “happiness trifecta,” the neurotransmitters that control for mood, movement, and motivation.

Mattering may also help us live longer.

In the 1970s, Harvard scientist Ellen Langer studied two groups of nursing home residents, controlling for numerous risk factors. She gave plants to each of them. Researchers told the first group that they were directly responsible for keeping the plant alive. They told the second group that the staff would take care of the plant.

After 18 months, twice as many patients in the first group were alive.

As a global pandemic continues and calls for social reform expand, mattering is especially urgent, leading many to examine their significance as never before.

I think mattering is a public health issue, and cultivating it is an essential skill.

How to Create Experiences of Mattering

Studies show mattering has three components:

  • Attention — the realization that others notice us and that they’re interested in what’s going on in our lives
  • Importance — the perception that others care about us and see us as uniquely significant and important
  • Dependence — the feeling that someone else relies on us, that we are needed

To cultivate mattering, ensure people feel noticed, important, and needed.

1. Notice others

I’ve had many leaders come to me and say they struggle to find ways to appreciate and recognize their employees meaningfully. I typically reply by asking, “How are your employees doing today?”

If they can’t answer, I advise them to start there.

It’s easy to make mattering and appreciation more complicated than it needs to be. I think it’s because we overlook the importance of feeling noticed right here, right now.

Mattering is much more likely to be fostered in our everyday routines than at an awards banquet. That’s because the experience of feeling visible is a crucial ingredient for mattering.

One of the easiest ways to help someone feel like they matter is by making eye contact and authentically checking in with the people you see every day.

Studies show that simply being told, “Good morning!” by a supervisor can be more potent than formal recognition.

It sounds easy, but actively noticing others is a habit that needs to be built into your everyday routines. We already have a lot of unproductive, anti-mattering habits like when we rush into our office to send one more e-mail before telling a co-worker goodbye for the day.

Or, when we brush past our partner on the way to the coffee maker in the morning without asking if they want a cup.

Try writing down a list of the moments in your day when you pass by or see the same people.

Do you actively notice and check-in on them? Do you remember their name? Do you know any details about their important lives?

If not, start there.

2. Communicate others’ unique significance

We tend to readily recount the negative aspects of a person and give plentiful advice on how they can get better. Yet, we’re slow to recognize and acknowledge people’s unique strengths and talents.

It seems we’re always treating teenagers and students as “what they could become” and fail to notice and cultivate what’s good about who they already are.

In the workplace, studies show that meaningful gratitude and affirmation are infrequent and that a majority of workers feel underappreciated.

To know we matter, we need evidence of how we matter.

That means naming people’s specific positive strengths, traits, and behaviors and showing then the difference those gifts make in the world around them.

A simple way to start is by giving what I call Purposeful Affirmation.

Start with describing the situation. Remind the person of the specific instance in which they made a difference for you. Then, spot the behaviors and strengths they exhibited in that situation. Finally, tell them the impact they had on you by using their strengths or enacting those behaviors.

Instead of just saying “good job” or “thank you,” you can show people the difference they make.

3. Show others they’re relied on

Feeling like we don’t matter can induce stress, frustration, and profound despair.

As mattering researcher Gordon Flett depicts in his volume on the research on mattering, people who are more at risk for severe depression and suicide tend to recount thoughts like, “nobody would miss me if I was gone” or “no one cares about me.”

In other words, when we don’t feel like we matter, it’s easy for nothing to matter.

Showing the people around you that you need them can be powerful.

As individuals, mattering means making sure the people around us regularly know that they’re needed and indispensable.

In schools, mattering means making sure that every student knows their presence is what makes the classroom complete.

In workplaces, mattering means ensuring all people know that they’re not disposable and that they and their work are essential for the whole.

In society, mattering means rebuilding systems so that every person experiences their humanity as dignified, affirmed, and valued.


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The iPad is only days away from being released and already it's part of a patent lawsuit.

Elan Microelectronics, a Taiwanese chipmaker, filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission today, accusing Apple of using its patented multitouch technology in the iPhone, the iPod Touch and, of course, the iPad.

According to a CNET report, the chipmaker has also asked the ITC To ban the import of the Apple devices into the U.S.

The ITC complaint is an extension of a April 2009 lawsuit filed by Elan against Apple. In that complaint (PDF), Elan says that Apple "has been on notice" since early 2007 of the patent violation and continues to utilize it without authorization. Elan calls its patent fundamental to the "detection of multi-fingers that allows for any subsequent multi-finger application to be implemented." Apple, in a legal response (PDF) filed in October, denied the allegations.

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CNET notes that, in 2008, Elan successfully sued Synaptics over the same patent. Apple's lawyers, of course, are no strangers to patent law. Earlier this month, Apple sued phone maker HTC - which is big on Google Android devices - for violation of about 20 patents.


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For any wildlife fanatic, witnessing gorillas in their natural habitat is usually high up on the list of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. The Republic of the Congo has long been known as one of the best places in the world for spotting these beautiful creatures, despite the fact that they can be elusive without an expert guide by your side.

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January 15, 2018
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Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Nadia Eckhardt has been one of Zegrahm’s most popular expedition leaders since she started working for the company in 1992.

Her outdoor adventures have taken her all around the world, from Africa and Antarctica to Australia and Indonesia. But Cuba has had a special place in her heart ever since her first...

Taveuni, Fiji
December 5, 2017
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Gift-giving is almost always challenging and rewarding in equal measure, but especially around the holidays. There’s an inherent pressure to find the perfect gift for your loved ones—one that will both show them how much we love them and how well we know them.

But there is one gift you can give your family that avoids questions like, “Will it fit?” or “Do they already have this?” Here’s our take on why travel is among the best family gifts you can give this holiday...

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November 20, 2017
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Christmas has become an almost ubiquitous celebration found all around the world. Nearly every country—even those not traditionally steeped in Christianity—acknowledges the holiday in some fashion.

When you travel with Zegrahm Expeditions, there’s often a chance to take part in the unique, eclectic holiday traditions that have come to surround this time...

Gorillas of the Congo
November 15, 2017
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Jon Nicholson, Zegrahm’s Director of Operations & Itinerary Planning, was becoming an expert on how to plan a trip before he was even old enough to drive.

The self-professed airplane geek’s passion for travel planning began at the ripe old age of six, when his grandmother gave him his first atlas. He fell in...

Zebras at Sunset
November 13, 2017
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The best travel adventures do not happen in a flash of instant gratification. Instead, they are the long, meandering journeys that give us more immersive, interactive experiences to savor. Sure, jumbo jets might get you to your destination faster; but once you arrive, I believe that overland adventures are the key to truly exploring the heart and soul of a place.

Slowing down allows us time to get a richer, more in-depth experience. We have an opportunity to...

Grimsey Island
November 7, 2017
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Ah, the dreaded long layover… We all love the convenience of direct flights to our destination. But there are times when long layovers are simply unavoidable, especially when you’re traveling internationally.

Thankfully, most airports these days offer plenty of fun and productive things to do while you wait for your next flight to be called, regardless of whether you’ve landed in the middle of the day, or the middle of the night.

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What is the purpose of Spiritual Practice? More importantly what is your purpose for Spiritual Practice? So many turn their practices into a strategy to get what they want, escape from reality or as a justification to not live their lives fully. It is quite simple, a meditator, meditates. The more your practice is about getting elsewhere, the less you’re meditating.

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A hi-tech video capture system that is helping Britain's hopes for boxing glory in 2012 has won a major award for its work with GB Boxing athletes.

The iBoxer system, developed by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University's Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CSER) in conjunction with the English Institute of Sport (EIS), won the Best New Sports Technology category in the MBNA Northern Sports Awards.

The system uses a series of cameras to monitor boxers' movement in the ring, which is fed directly to a series of touchscreen monitors in the gym. The athletes then go over the footage between bouts in order to analyse and improve performance, define fight strategy and gain a better understanding of their opponents' tactics.

Professor Steve Haake is director of CSER, which is a UK Sport innovation partner. He said: "Once the athlete has completed a three-minute sparring round or training session they can come out of the ring and get immediate video feedback on the aspects important to the session.

“The iBoxer system also stores the judges' scores and videos for thousands of bouts, which can easily be searched using a laptop or touchscreen PC.”

As part of its sport science back-up team, provided by the EIS, GB Boxing has a full time performance analyst, Robert Gibson. Robert has trialled the system with the Olympic squad, based at EIS Sheffield.

He said: "Some of the things we’re looking at are to do with points scoring dynamics. Where are points scored during a bout? What are the current gold medallists doing? What are we doing compared to them? Then we look at punch efficiency. How many punches were thrown per point? And if a point isn’t scored why not?"

The system is unique in world boxing and has been well received by the Team GB boxers, who have been using performance analysis for some time to help inform strategy and tactics at major championships.

GB Boxing performance director, Rob McCracken, said: “Performance analysis an important part of our boxer’s preparations. It provides us with insight on their opponents' strengths and weaknesses and, by providing them with this knowledge, builds confidence.

"The iBoxer system has supplemented our work in this area and enhanced the quality of our performance analysis.”

Dr Scott Drawer, head of research and innovation at UK Sport, said: “Our work sets out to help our athletes and their coaches learn faster than their international opposition, and this is a great example of where increasing knowledge and understanding of the sport can give our athletes a real performance edge.

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Greg Bottoms, Fight Scenes (Counterpoint, 2008)

Greg Bottoms is not one to find solace or seek truth in the past. His memory knows no transcendence, no nostalgia, and the whole act feels more like a curse to struggle against. Fight Scenes, then, seems as apt a title as any for this catalog of “memories to walk away from.”

Our guide through the inferno is Bottoms at twelve, accompanied by his muse, best friend, and fellow cretin, Mark, who is destined for repeat humiliations as the boys go about the business of getting stoned, groped, and beat up in the eviscerating heat of a summer in Newport News, VA.

Like Mark, so much that the boys encounter in their suburban ramble is broken, right down to the shoelaces. So much comes in pieces that can’t be put back together. Rust is everywhere. It’s on the hatchet blade, the refrigerator handle, on car fenders, car bumpers, on a card table, a grill. It’s in the taste of blood and the smell of a stranger come too close. In such a wasteland as this, what glistens or pretends at harmony does so as something surreal.

Standing outside a majestic brick home bordered by flower beds—“a nice house”—Bottoms proclaims: “I had the momentary feeling of walking into a half-remembered dream…There were no cars in the driveway. No traffic on the street…We waited, but no one came.”

No one ever comes when the damned come knocking. So the past endures as a failure that can’t be wished away, and remembrance of it stings with a lingering embarrassment. These aren’t stories. They are the purging of a guilty conscience: “All over my childhood are these memories to walk away from.”

But how can one shake off the skinned-knuckle reality of a past that never ceases in its affront to the grown man who wants to dismiss it? Bottoms doesn’t try for our sympathy, or if he does, he fails. So when he talks about his soul, even that is mingled with the dirty laundry: “My soul fell down through my body and got wrapped around my ankles like a pair of baggy jeans.”

Any semblance of a pure self that dares to inhabit this world of things that fall apart must itself fall apart. For those whose sex education is got through the misogyny of drunken men and a shoebox full of pornographic polaroids, for those who “have been shaped by the banality and stupidity of violence,” there is no pure self, and no hope for one either—not for those with an “ulcerated soul” that is “full of holes.”

That isn’t to say that we never feel for this cast of losers. Our sympathy, though, is reserved for the inarticulate: “a pity thing, the way certain girls love helpless animals.” It’s wholly ironic.

We feel for these pimpled, stubbly and otherwise pockmarked creatures in that we feel bad for them. Yet they nevertheless, at odd moments and in inexplicable fits of clarity, speak their desires—even when that means they reveal that there’s nothing to reveal—and earn more than just our pity.

There’s twelve-year-old Bottoms dazzled by a flower garden: “‘Wow,’ was all I could think to say.” There’s Rusty, “the roofer who always hung around,” drunk and belligerent. “A lot of his stories headed toward the phrase ‘and then I decked the guy.’” There’s Hazel, the fourteen-year-old “school slut” whose courtship ritual proceeds from insult—“you’re ugly”—to a play at violence—“let’s wrestle”—to real, bloody violence—“she grabbed my arm … blood pooled”—to the self-loathing that was lying in wait during the whole pathetic show: “That was totally an accident. You hate me now, don’t you?…You do. I don’t blame you. You should hate me…Everyone hates me. Even my dad.”

If this book sparkles at all it is in these moments of transparency when communication really occurs, despite the inadequacies of the speakers. And often, this transparency demands that language itself—which can’t help but get at the universal—must shed its trappings. Words are too much, too distant, for such as these, and only the most mute fragment of the thing itself will do to signal the gut-wrench that jerks at the heart of it all—as when Bottoms “can’t think of what to say” to tell Mark about his first kiss.

“There was too much to say, and I was unable then to give shape or meaning to any of it. I held out my bloody arm as if to explain.”

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