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Category: Opinions

Quick Lesson in Nurture

Posted on 04/06/201003/20/2011 by Backpacking Dad

As Erin and Adrian were finishing their lunch I was flipping through channels. I paused on that deep character study of an addict coping with her disease, otherwise known as “Confessions of a Shopaholic”, subtitled “Even Stupid, Vain, Shallow People Can Have All Their Dreams Come True If They Just Don’t Work For It And…

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A Star is Born

Posted on 03/22/201003/20/2011 by Backpacking Dad

I swear to Socrates that all of this was Erin’s idea. Except for the video camera. That’s always dad’s idea.   She came stomping in to the kitchen wearing her mom’s heels and just started singing on her own. I had her pause while I got the camera out. And then there were dance moves…

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Health Care Reform And Communism

Posted on 03/21/201003/20/2011 by Backpacking Dad

A dramatic, hyperbolic, and tense afternoon passed in Washington today. In the end, the House passed a bill purposed to reform the health insurance industry. My favourite hyperbole of the day was the charge of communism coming from the Right, over and over, as though they were serious. Communism. It actually makes sense that the…

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