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JACK MCDANIEL

JACK MCDANIEL
Agents of the Undertow is a collection of personal essays and stories I began writing when my daughter was born. I wanted something to give to her when she was older. Religion and politics, you know, those things polite people don't discuss over dinn

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Female Math
2008-02-20 04:53:00
Some things are so indelibly etched into our framework of electrical impulses, DNA encoding, and sweat and dreams that we rarely question their rationality, let alone their existence. There are times, however, when a psychic knock on the head causes us to stop and look at things anew,
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Not Like Us
2007-06-09 17:50:00
Jonathon Sachs, writing for the Times Online, recently wrote: "The real battle, and it applies to secular and religious alike, is: can we love, not hate, the people not like us? "
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You Believe
2007-06-03 04:19:00
You believe in slavery. You believe that murder, in many forms, is acceptable. You believe rape is acceptable. You also believe in the hatred of homosexuals, the oppression of women and, amazingly, you believe in witches. You do not believe these things

Arrested for What?!
2007-04-30 20:17:00
Freedom of Speach is one of the constitutional guarantees that we all seem to understand and protect with a great deal of vigor. It's integrity is essential to a well-functioning democracy. While we have traded many of our freedoms (Patriot Act) for the illusion of safety, most of us would never dream of allowing the government to steal the basic right to speak out. But these abuses do occur on a regular basis.
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Agents of the Undertow
2007-04-24 04:32:00
Take this picture: a young child stands in the half-sunlight beneath a group of large pine trees, reaching out to touch the flowers and smell their spring-time fragrance. The child is smiling. The back of her printed dress hangs loosely
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Building Walls
2007-04-23 22:25:00
Now, it seems, we can bring peace to Baghdad by building a wall, or a series of walls. These walls, no doubt, will partition off an elite few from the violence that is ever-present in the Iraqi capital. No doubt these walls will create an oasis of peace amidst the hell of war. But we shouldn't too soon forget the sage advice of Robert Frost who penned:
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We Can't Do Everything!
2007-04-19 18:58:00
John Bolton, President Bush's failed pick to be our Ambassador to the U.N., has stated in an interview with Andrew Sullivan that we are not responsible for Iraq. Somehow, the Iraqi people need to step up and make things right. So, let's review for a moment because this smacks of the nonsensical. We attacked Iraq. We have now occupied the country for around four years. We - the United States
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The Dog Ate My Homework
2007-04-12 06:27:00
Ain't it amazin'! Ain't is so predictable. The Republicans, running for their lives from Mr. Waxman and other defenders of truth, can't find their homework because, well, you know, the dog ate it.
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Sunshine Market Souvenirs
2007-04-09 04:15:00
The Sunshine Market shows up in the backs of station wagons and temporary tents every Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in a little park in the heart of Hanapepe, ?The biggest little town on Kaua?i?.

They're Back
2007-04-06 23:17:00
Saddam Hussein may have been a brutal dictator, but there is no doubt that the Taleban are far worse. You don't have to look far to prove that. Steal some bread to live off and lose your hands. A Woman gets raped and then HAS to be killed herself because she is impur
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Here's How We End This
2007-03-30 23:50:00
It seems clear to anyone with the capacity to think for themselves that Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General, Karl Rove, GOP Puppeteer, and a few others (at least), have broken all the rules of good government. A few laws were probably broken in there, as well. In fact, what they've done appears to be more insidious than the actions of Nixon and his cronies during this country's Watergate episode.
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Mankind - R.I.P.
2007-03-29 01:53:00
I want to be the man standing atop the hill when the next sentient being emerges from the fog of evolution. I want to show that being all of the reasons why the great human experiment failed. Laugh. Go ahead.
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Sacred Breaths
2007-03-28 23:11:00
Want to cheapen life, make it less than the miracle it is? Try this: believe in religion. Any of the major religions will do. Take your pick. I know it best, so I will stick with Christianity. By now many of you are enraged that I would make that claim. Read on, I promise
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Vacationing With the Dead
2007-03-28 07:19:00
Lindbergh, Da Vinci, Galileo, Martin Luther King, Jr. They thumbed their nose at convention. They spat into the wind and dared it to spit back. Each of them reached beyond the horizon and grabbed tomorrow.
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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
2007-03-28 00:54:00
?So dad,? comes the still-tiny voice from the back seat of the car, ?when Santa finally gets too old and tired and decides to retire, who will take his place??
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Footsteps
2007-03-28 00:42:00
It is very early in the morning and I have stolen Madison from her bed and taken her to the beach for a sunrise walk. The beach, like most of Hawaii, is sleeping, only a few egrets are keeping watch over us. The sun is emerging from its morning bath and the ocean is beginning its retreat from the heat until later toward evening.

Hitting Bottom
2007-03-28 00:37:00
Madison sat in a sandbox. The sandbox doubled as a volleyball court that went mostly unused. She pushed a plastic shovel into the soft, dried sand, scooped some up and placed it in a pile within easy reach. She was dreaming, playing out fantasies and creating worlds. At her age--she was 4 years old then--there was nothing more she could do.
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What She Should Have Said
2007-03-27 23:02:00
Religious Fundamentalists are amazing in their ability to believe things that are completely contradictory to the teachings of Jesus Christ. In truth, more amazing is their inability to even see that their beliefs are contradictory. I might respect someone who says "I know this runs against the teachings of Jesus, but I believe it any way." But that isn't what they do.
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Just Tell Them to Shut Up In Their Own Language
2007-03-27 23:02:00
Religious Fundamentalists are amazing in their ability to believe things that are completely contradictory to the teachings of Jesus Christ. In truth, more amazing is their inability to even see that their beliefs are contradictory. I might respect someone who says "I know this runs against the teachings of Jesus, but I believe it any way." But that isn't what they do.
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