Blog Entries for Matt Browning

Is It Worth It... Food Or Fuel

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Remember the good ol' days when the only impact my energy use had on the global food supply was a long and distorted series of causal effects? You know, I drive and it heats up the earth and then El Nino is more violent somehow and that affects Mexican corn supply which affects tortilla production... which creates a real catch-22 when I drive long distances to buy a bu [...]

the Effects of Violence

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My mom always told me not to hit other because it "wasn't nice." But what if violence is more than just a social faux pas. Maybe there's more to the effects of violence than just the obvious. Maybe MLK, Ghandi and Jesus knew something that we are still figuring out. An A.P. story caught my attention this morning as I browsed Yahoo news. The headline read "Report: 121 Veterans Linked to Killings." You can follow the link to read the articl [...]

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

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If you're not watching fall baseball, you're missing out. I know that you might think thatbaseball is a "slow, boring" game, but it just looks that way from the outside. Instead I would call baseball a "still" game. The pitcher lifts his front leg and balances for a split second before exploding forward and releasing a [...]

God Gets Sued

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Yep, you read that right...God is being sued, and by an elected official none-the-less. You kind of have to wonder how embarressed those people that voted for him are now. This ain't the Onion or the Daily Show folks, this is the REAL news.

Here's the link to the story.

After you check that out, you might want to check out the follow up story of a real response that was filed by "God."

Is U2 BUGGIN' You? They Don't Mean to Bug You.

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There's been a lot of talk about this next band and their lead singer... maybe too much talk. This next band isn't just a group of
social activists; they're the greatest rock band in the world (aka U2).
If those last two sentences confused you, you need to pick up U2's disc
"Under a Blood Red Sky" and [...]

Ideals and Iraq

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This morning I was reading the news online (like I do most days) and I clicked on the article about a US air raid in Iraq killing 32 people with suspected terrorist connections in the northern Shiite slum Sadr City.� I'm not really sure why I even read this article, since just about everyday there [...]

Some Essential Summer Reading

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If you've never read Annie Dillard you are missing out.� Talk about wonder, this woman's writing

is jut flat out mysteriously beautiful!� She writes most often about creation and the order of things, she describes herself as having a background in theology rather than ecology though.� Her books aren&# [...]