{"id":171,"date":"2004-04-25T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2004-04-25T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T19:14:00","slug":"171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

April in the snow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blogging is a bit difficult right now. Thanks to a major spring blizzard<\/a>, my home has had no electricity since Thursday night, the 22nd, and telephone service was restored only yesterday. I might also credit the local rural electric cooperative<\/a>, which has not had anyone trimming trees out our way for at least ten years. Now their guys have to be out in the knee-deep snow and rain, clearing the power lines. (In fairness, it looks like some utility poles snapped off out on the praire west of Pueblo as well.) <\/p>\n

So just link dumps today, as I work at my office on a rainy Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The War of the Sweatshirts<\/em><\/p>\n

Things are getting a little tense<\/a> out there in Abrahamic Religions Land.<\/p>\n

New papers posted on my home page<\/em><\/p>\n

I will be putting some older essays and conference papers on my home page<\/a>. For now, here are two:<\/p>\n

“Fort Hood’s Pagans and the Problem of Pacificism”<\/a> –Why Starhawk’s writings are not the best source for Wiccan attitudes towards war. <\/p>\n

“If Witches No Longer Fly,”<\/a> (104 kb PDF file) — An essay on contemporary Pagans and Solanaceous plants, originally published in The Pomegranate<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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