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Schism.

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Give me that back door religion, give me that back door religion, give me that back door religion, it's good enough for me! That's the song we're singing here at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill, now that Marvin (my personal robot assistant) has been plying his new trade as preacher, flock-leader, and chief financial officer of the local diocese of the Space Hippie Sect. Yes, it's a religion he made up using bits and pieces from Hulu reruns he watches in his ample spare time (contrary to common belief, robots are slothful creatures generally, their servos idle nearly 65% of the time). Turns out it was time well wasted, as the converts have been trudging in, eyes glazed, arms extended in front of them, hungry for spiritual guidance. Didn't know Marvin was so good at getting money out of people. Must be new programming... for some body. How do we of Big Green feel about floating our household on donations to a church hastily invented by a renegade robot? Well, not ba

The fight.

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This has been one of those weeks when I'm not sure whether to look east or look west at any given moment. So many compelling things happening both at home and overseas at the same time - a monumental struggle in the case of the Libyan nation; certainly dramatic ones at play in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and elsewhere. Just a few thoughts about Libya. Muammar Gaddafi appears to be turning his country into the Romania of this particular wave of revolutionary movements, importing mercenaries to buttress his failing grip on the capital, using all the armaments that western money has bought him against his own countrymen and women, turning 50 caliber anti-aircraft guns against unarmed civilians. Terrifying stuff, and likely hundreds - possibly thousands - are dead. Gaddafi is now phoning in his incoherent rants from an undisclosed (probably mobile) location, blaming the uprising on Al Qaeda and drug-crazed youth, among other things. (Now I understand why Bush took a shine to this wack-jo