Month: September 2011
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Ohio State – Colorado: notes and thoughts
Sure. Colorado wasn’t very good. But after the rancid Ohio State performance from a week ago, like many Buckeye fans, I was only cautiously optimistic about this afternoon’s game against Colorado.
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Facebook changes are good – take a deep breath and let me explain
Listening to people talk about the changes to Facebook is a lot like listening to people talk about politics; it’s a lot of angry comments from the clueless. I have been on Facebook for nearly seven years, and about once a year, the site undergoes major changes. The changes are always (and I mean always)…
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Justification for Favoring the Death Penalty and Being Pro Life
Read a couple of interesting articles last week in the Washington Post. Both discuss the death penalty. The first article, “Like Rick Perry, most ‘pro-life’ Americans OK with death penalty” looks at how politically conservative Americans are overwhelmingly pro-life, and also, overwhelmingly in favor of capital punishment. The second article, titled “American Christians and the…
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Ohio State – Miami notes and thoughts
Ohio State 2011 Season. Game 3, at Miami, Fla. It was just one game. I tried not to panic after the Buckeyes struggled with Toledo last week. Many were down on OSU quarterback Joe Bauserman, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After the Buckeye loss at Miami this evening, I don’t think…
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Where I was on 9/11
photo courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons. Julien Menichini This week, so much has been written about 9/11. So many documentaries and television specials have aired. I haven’t really watched any of it, nor have I read the articles. It’s not that I don’t care about what happened a decade ago. I care a great deal.…
Josh Benner 