{"id":1297,"date":"2010-01-29T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2010-01-29T23:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:42:00","slug":"only-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Only in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRgCOXaiDjQ&amp;feature=player_embedded\">actual television commercial in a race for parish coroner<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/01\/ad-for-orleans-coroner-candidate-my-opponent-is-dr-frankenstein.php\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you see this actual television commercial in a race for parish coroner? 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Clifton","date":"September 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"What about the dogs (cats, hamsters, etc.)?I cannot agree with uber-blogger Glenn Reynolds, who said, \"I think you should leave the dogs behind\" when evacuating New Orleans (or elsewhere, I presume).I have a contract with my dogs: You be good dogs, and I will see to your needs, take care\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":517,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=517","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":1},"title":"Starhawk is our Jesse JacksonI\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Starhawk is our Jesse JacksonI don't mean that as a compliment. Jackson has used up his credibility from his earlier civil-rights work by parachuting himself into whatever crisis or disaster comes along, trying to grab some television time for his own agenda.Now Pagan activist-writer Starhawk is up to the same\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3479,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3479","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":2},"title":"On Becoming a Killer of Zombies","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"At the Pop Theology blog, another attempt to figure out the zombie craze, via review of a new collection of essays, Triumph of the Walking Dead. It is based on the AMC series, but goes far beyond it. From a pop theology perspective, the most interesting essays cover morality, meaning(lessness),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"scholarship\"","block_context":{"text":"scholarship","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=scholarship"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5670,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5670","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":3},"title":"Is the Church of England Desperate or Just Confused about Paganism?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"With the obvious news peg of summer solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, the Telegraph reports on a rather odd initiative from the Church of England. The article begins, The church is training ministers to create \u201ca pagan church where Christianity [is] very much in the centre\u201d to attract spiritual believers. 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Clifton","date":"April 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"It's ours, and you can't have anySabina Magliocco (her last book mentioned here) has a good piece on \"Indigenousness and the Politics of Spirituality\" in the American Anthropological Association newsletter.Some quotes:Cultural tradition is a process, rather than a product; the key quality of many indigenous spiritual practices is their variability\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1284,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1284","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":5},"title":"Too Much Pagan Writing is Too Bland","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I wish Pagan writers would stop giving advice and writing bland how-to articles. A lot of what makes Pagan magazine publishing is its bias towards advice-giving. That and poor graphic design, in some cases.Look at Circle magazine, for example. 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