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I avoid political ads on TV quite easily. There's the handy button that says OFF on it. On a marginally more serious note I don't even have cable TV. I don't feel like paying that kind of money to have ever more garbage piped into my home. The TV purveyors need me more than I need them.

I once ripped a tree out of the ground with my bare hands. In fairness it would be more accurately described as a sapling than a tree. I cut a couple of conifers down a while back. I cut the branches back, fed them to a shredder, then cut the trunks to about a five-foot height, cut away the...

In general, probably the ones they are most prone to find tempting. In fairness it can be tricky to determine how to balance cultural expectations and eternal requirements where Scripture is concerned. We ignore a lot of Paul's writing - we don't demand women have long hair or cover their heads...

Yick, that doesn't sound good. Hope you feel better soon.

In the heat it's hard to sustain effort without my pulse going very high so I've been alternating running and walking around my 8-mile loop. Because running for a long time is harder in the heat I've been running faster for the shorter intervals, then taking whatever time I need to cool off.

I don't see the need for a private confession online or offline, but there's no way I'd do it online. You never know what digital trails you're leaving these days. In a private setting with the pastor your level of trust is that the pastor won't repeat what you said, and isn't recording it. The...

I think the umlaut version is pronounced with the lips more closed and it's a slightly longer sound, but that's the best way I know to describe it in a silent medium. And I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time :) From what I've seen if you are using the local language if you visit...

Latin was also an option but only for alternating years. I thought it related to tenses but if I recall you pointed out an example where my theory didn't work - I remember things like "Ich esse die Eier" against "ich habe die Eier gegessen". I think some (maybe all) things also revert to...

Depends who it is. Most of the time we sent an electronic greeting but there a few people who get a physical card from us.

At school we learned French from day 1, then we added German and Spanish in (I think) the following year, and then later on we could drop either German or Spanish but we had to take French and either German or Spanish. I chose German and spent much of the next two years wishing I'd chosen...

I took German for three years at school, which was - ahem - a lot of years ago. More than I entirely care to count. I haven't used it a whole lot since then so although I remember concept-level aspects like sentence structure the specific details of vocabulary has gotten very rusty over the...

Gesundheit. (from memory, showing just how rusty my German is), I think you're saying you have been learning German for about three months. Something about you can't do something. Your cats are orange and black and white, and you can't do something else. (from Google Translate) I have been...

I'd really rather not get into a physical fight unless there's no desirable way to avoid it. If there's a bit of aggro going on at the bar there's no point escalating or getting involved unless there's a compelling reason to get involved. If it's just to prove a point it's not likely to end...

Locally grown fruit and vegetables in general. Usually they are cheaper and taste better. Maybe they need to be used up faster but I can think of worse problems to have than needing to eat a load of fresh strawberries or cherries before they go bad.

It would depend on the drive and the job. Offer me a job paying $500,000 and I'll be more willing to travel than I will for a job paying $25,000.

In private initially. If the pastor refuses to acknowledge the criticism it may be appropriate to take it to a gradually more public forum depending on the nature of it (e.g. making inappropriate comments to my wife is something I'd treat very differently to making a comment in a sermon that I...

I think we're talking at cross purposes here, but agree that Hunter is guilty as charged and shouldn't be pardoned so might as well leave it there.

I don't dispute the point of the law was to stop people who are using drugs buying guns, and the jury clearly decided he was using drugs when he bought the gun. My point was that he's entitled to the same presumption of innocence regarding his intentions when buying the gun - unless there's...

If he did pardon his son it would render the entire justice system more of a joke than it already is. That said, in fairness, I think it would be appropriate for Hunter to face the lower end of the potential range of the available punishments. He is, it would appear, a first-time offender with...

His surname, obviously :)