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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

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Today is my Mom's birthday. I like this 1947 photograph of her and my Dad, maybe partly because the baby is me.
Monday, June 01, 2020

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Today Kelley and I checked out what had happened last night in Germantown here in Philadelphia, along Germantown Avenue from around Wister S...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

A Turning Point In The Fight Against The Coronavirus?

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Tuesday, April 28, it seems to me, will turn out to have been a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus. I don’t mean it will...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Attributing Providence to Evolution

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Check out the NPR story Our Feet Are Fallible, But They Beat A Chimp's for another example of people casually attributing Providence to...
Saturday, May 01, 2010

Magistrate Court Mediation

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For the last sixteen months or so, I have been acting as a mediator twice a month in local West Virginia magistrate-court “small-claims” cas...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Execution of an Innocent Man

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In the 2006 case Kansas v. Marsh , U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia affirmed that, in the modern American judicial system, there has ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Blame and the Purpose of Judgment

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Job's Evil Dreams : William Blake's 1805 illustration to the Book of Job reveals Job's God as Satan, the Accuser, inhuman with...
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John Hickey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Raised Irish-Catholic in Philadelphia, I moved to New Hampshire after getting a law degree at West Virginia University. I am back now in Germantown in Philadelphia. I try to stay open to "continuing revelation," as the Quakers say. My recent posts on legal issues are not intended as legal advice.
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