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Walmart.cow May 20, 2015

• My daughter met the BooMan a few years ago when we were all out canvassing for the 2012 elections, getting out the vote for a slate of candidates that included our local state senator, Andy Dinnaman. Elections have consequences. Thanks to Sen. Dinnaman’s push to have Pennsylvania first-responders trained and equipped to administer the anti-overdose drug Naloxone — and to new Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s support to making that happen sooner, rather than later — several of our neighbors here in Chester County are now alive who would otherwise be dead.

Two lessons here (at least): 1) Local elections matter and volunteering to GOTV matters; and 2) Naloxone saves lives and it should be saving lives everywhere, not just in Pennsylvania.

• As far as I know, Walmart has not yet launched its army of lawyers to seize the domain name Walmart.cow.

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• Just realized that the Witch House and the Mystery House are not the same thing (via Steve Buchheit). I’d been confusing my California oddities. The whimsical one is in Los Angeles. The tragically eccentric one is in San Jose. Neither is actually haunted, but the heiress who built and rebuilt the latter was.

• Reformed white evangelicals in America cannot abide Pelagianism — until they start talking about virginity.

• “I personally don’t want to live in a world where this kind of thing is swept under the rug.” Laura Bassett’s “Buried in Baltimore: The Mysterious Murder of a Nun Who Knew Too Much” is must-reading for anyone trying to understand the scope of the clergy abuse scandal — and for anyone trying to understand the latest Pew survey documenting the decline of organized Christianity in the US (via).

The details of the crimes are horrifying. The details of the criminal conspiracy involving priests and high-ranking police officers are terrifying. But the heroes of the story — a group of determined women who remind me of The Bletchley Circle — may inspire you as much as the rest of the story dismays you.

• I’m hoping that Booman Tribune link in the first item works (if not, here’s the local news story he writes about) — Booman’s site is one of several I visit that’s been occasionally inaccessible lately due to the “Go Garden Club” redirect bug, which seems to have something to do with the sitemeter widget. It doesn’t seem to involve infectious malware per se — just the annoying result of winding up at some gardening site rather than wherever it is your browser is supposed to be going. (I’ve had the same problem lately with Lawyers Guns & Money and a few other blogs I read).

So here’s Mahalia singing for Booman and LGM and everyone trying to read them who winds up reading about gardening instead:


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