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Not that I feel any sympathy for the guy whatsoever but those DC Nationals fans are a tough crowd.

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I remember arguing with my Sunday School teacher when I was around 6th grade or so that someday men would be able to have babies.
I can’t remember if I had already read The Left Hand of Darkness at that point and I don’t think I had even heard the word transgender. I mean, hello! [...]

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MCC sales in urban areas: turns out that they are tough to get going. Who knew?
Katie’s tired and she’s stirring up the SWM at YAR.
Someone needs to start a blog called “Stuff White Urban Mennonites like” and #1 on the list should be gluten-free bread.
Canadian Mennonites on cutting edge of community theatre …. and [...]

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So Commentator Becca mentioned that though she really loved Auden, she kinda wished that he had been a she writing about a her. So — because I’m a big believer in equal opportunity and because I care about your needs, gentle readers — I offer up Amy Lowell, a poet from about 100 years [...]

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I want a iPhone. No, I’m craving an iPhone, I yearn for an iPhone. I know I should wait because Steve Jobs is going to come out next year with some amazing upgrade that will be half the price of the current model. I at least need to wait until the 3G [...]

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In honour of March 31 — Opening Day — which is about spring and newness and hope and renewal and the promise of a long, hot summer and also the inevitability of autumn.

Bull Durham: I would have picked the “I believe” clip but it was really crap quality.
Field of Dreams: Fathers, sons, Iowa, memory, regret, [...]

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The best definition I’ve seen of what urban living is all about:
being forced to deal — every day — with people who are unlike you*
That pretty much sums it up. The difference between home and here is that at home, the people that are different from me aren’t really all that different from me. [...]

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First case ever of buggy-jacking? But at least it was a pacifistic buggy-jacking
Apparently, because the Amish are Luddites, requiring smoke detectors is religious persecution
Oh, those pesky peace-loving Mennonites!
Boy born Amish, boy grows up Amish, boy goes on Rumspringa and never comes back
This is what Easter, Moe’s Tavern, and Amish buffets have in common? [...]

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Why the hell do they …? is an occasional series written by people who don’t come from an ethnic Mennonite background. So our weird little quirks and oddities can cause some questions. UrbanMennonite.com is glad to give these questions a forum and who knows? it might turn out that the ethnic-born [...]

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One of my favourite poems (probably not in my top five but maybe in my top 15) and definitely one of the most romantic ever is W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues“:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let [...]

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