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By Dustin Christian, on May 25th, 2011
Image by Getty Images via @daylife 1. Politics - Yes, politics fascinate me. But politics also disgust me. Politics seem to bring out the absolute worst in some people. Hateful speech, willful ignorance, and blind spots with enough room for that elephant and its trampoline from a few days ago. The most [...]
By Dustin Christian, on May 23rd, 2011
{EAV_BLOG_VER:a2625597308cbea3} Image via Wikipedia 1. Game of Thrones – I’ve heard complaints about certain casting choices and what some consider a slow start, and I guess both are fair. Sean Bean is nothing like how I imagined Ned Stark and I always pictured Robert Barantheon taller than Mark Addy, Jon Snow taller and [...]
By Dustin Christian, on December 10th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I have a sort of love/hate relationship with religion and politics. I find both absolutely fascinating and spend a fair amount of time thinking about them, but both are a source of intense conflict and destruction in people’s lives. I hesitate to call them a necessary evil, because I’m not [...]
By Dustin Christian, on December 9th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia The short answer? I’m strongly in favor of same-sex marriage. It’s one of those issues that I have trouble respecting the opposing view. Gainer and Diane are the grandparents of my first son, Jude. Diane is his biological grandmother and Gainer is her – for lack of a better [...]
By Dustin Christian, on November 3rd, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed in tonight’s (probably last night’s by the time this publishes) election results. I can’t help but feel like we elected an unreasonably large amount of people who have nothing to offer but their opposition to a party that, in the [...]
By Dustin Christian, on November 1st, 2010
Image via Wikipedia First and foremost, I believe that my wife and kids are the best thing that ever happened to me and that, because of them, I am and constantly strive to be a better man. I believe there is most likely some kind of higher power. I don’t believe it [...]
By Dustin Christian, on November 1st, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I want to try something. Everyone who refuses to vote because they can’t bring themselves to support either the Republican or Democratic candidates for office, pick an independent or third-party candidate and give them your vote. That candidate probably won’t win this election or next, so you don’t have [...]
By Dustin Christian, on August 24th, 2010
1. I know, I really need to post more often and with more substance than these weekly Tuesday Tens, which really aren’t even tens, but that’s not the point. I’m honestly working on some ideas to get my groove back, please just try to bear with me. 2. I had to kill a rattlesnake [...]
By Dustin Christian, on August 17th, 2010
1. It seems like my work schedule changes every week, which wouldn’t matter if I had been hired for a variable shift and schedule, but I was told that I would be stuck with my schedule for a while and I may as well get used to it. Since May, we have gone from [...]
By Dustin Christian, on May 26th, 2010
Image via Wikipedia 1. I very rarely get sick. When I do get sick, though, it seems to stick with me. I’ve had a chronic cough for over a week now and I just can’t seem to get all of the gunk out of my chest. It’s keeping me (and my wife) from [...]

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