Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Nov 19, 2009, 4:39 pm
My cousin recently wrote a blog post about how he believes the honesty of students is decreasing. He’s a teacher in the Midwest. He sees firsthand how the kids these days will not hesitate to cheat ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Nov 18, 2009, 10:34 am
We’ve hit that time of year. You know what I’m talking about. The time of year when you drive to work in the morning in the dark and the sun drops from the sky without warning in the afternoon. Th...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Nov 12, 2009, 4:15 pm
When the drummer banged the drum, we all started marching. Left. Right. Left. When the trumpets started blaring, we all did our best to focus. To concentrate. Left. Right. To avoid mistakes. Left. So...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Nov 10, 2009, 7:03 pm
The recent tragedy that occurred in Fort Hood, Texas is a devastating example of what I was talking about here. George W. Bush (our former fearless leader) marched our troops into Afghanistan and Iraq...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Nov 3, 2009, 3:15 pm
I never really feel like I fit in. I never have. For some reason, wherever I am, I just don’t feel like I belong. (I take that back. The only place I’ve ever felt like I belonged was wandering ano...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 29, 2009, 7:50 pm
We are cockroaches. None of this matters. Don’t believe me? See if you can find just one person at the grocery store to move their goddamn cart out of the way when you are trying to get to the ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 28, 2009, 11:12 am
I hate Utah. Not for the reasons you probably think. I mean, the religious right that dominate the politics of the state and the general attitude of the holier-than-thou faction is extremely annoying ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 23, 2009, 9:22 am
My opinions of Obama have just stepped off a rollercoaster. Their feet are firmly back on the platform and they are trying to decide if they should climb back on. But after a ride or two, I’ve come ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 21, 2009, 3:04 pm
So they arrested Tarek Mehanna. Congratulations are in order and lives probably saved. But what this mostly serves to illustrate is that we are fighting pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The War...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 17, 2009, 2:36 pm
One year ago today, Hollee and I got married in the San Diego County Courthouse right after a middle-aged gay couple and right before a young, hip lesbian couple. We were right where we wanted to be. ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 14, 2009, 11:27 pm
I’m not sure you can get it unless you have kids of your own. Maybe to a certain extent but certainly not all the way. There’s something about being a parent that tears down your walls as you do y...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 12, 2009, 3:37 pm
Somewhere along the line, the American dream has been molested. And if that weren’t bad enough, it’s also been bastardized and abused to a point beyond recognition. What do I mean? Don’t worry,...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 12, 2009, 10:44 am
This past weekend, Hollee and I hopped in the Element and took off an another semi-impromptu adventure. Our big 1-year anniversary is next weekend, but finding ourselves sans children this weekend, we...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 9, 2009, 8:49 am
I have a few legitimate questions that most people avoid answering. Please, someone answer. How can you be anti-abortion and pro-war and anti-health care reform? How do you call yourself Pro-Life yet...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 7, 2009, 8:47 pm
At night in his car, he becomes someone else. The person he always wanted to be. A dashboard drum solo followed by words that drip pain. On the freeway, the headlights are lighters, the road is the st...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 6, 2009, 9:48 am
Recently my cousin made a statement that it’s too bad that my grandfather’s values didn’t stick to my dad so he wasn’t able to pass them on to me. Or something to that effect. Like somehow my ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 5, 2009, 6:21 pm
I sometimes flip over to bullshit conservative talk radio during commercials when I’m listening to sports talk. Today some local nobody was doing his best Glenn Beck impersonation, maybe hoping some...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Oct 2, 2009, 5:52 pm
The stoplight like Christmas turns green and says “go.” GO!
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 26, 2009, 12:58 pm
If you think about it, it really makes sense. What’s going on here is political slight of hand. The “conservative” leaders are attacking on two fronts—social conservativism and political conse...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 25, 2009, 1:40 pm
Let’s try to break this down. Maybe we can figure it out together. I’m trying to understand how hard-working Americans, those in the middle- and lower-middle and lower-class income brackets, can s...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 23, 2009, 4:45 pm
I met Hollee on Myspace. I think that’s the first time I’ve publicly admitted that. But at this point in the game, what’s the point of pretending it’s anything other than it is? Which is a won...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 16, 2009, 5:11 pm
When I was a kid, I’d spend a month or so of every summer in Cedar City with my grandparents. Looking back at those times, I have two or three memories that really stand out in my mind. For some rea...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 13, 2009, 11:18 am
I’m trying to understand this movement (or what’s the opposite of movement? resistance?). All that I can come up with is that it’s a sickness. Everyone is so concerned with things. How much ca...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 9, 2009, 7:14 am
How do you stand and declare Wal Mart to be corrupt and evil (which I don’t necessarily disagree with), and even go so far as to refuse to eat a piece of candy because someone else bought it the...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 8, 2009, 12:39 pm
My kids go to a brand new school. They don’t have the technology in place yet to watch Obama’s speech to school children. Therefore, we will watch it this evening as a family and discuss what was ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 4, 2009, 8:51 am
Our kids started at a brand new charter school last Monday. It’s been quite the experience. First they pushed the start of school back a week because the building wasn’t finished. Then we learned ...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Sep 3, 2009, 9:33 pm
We are at the verge of the fall of a nation. This is one step removed from stoning people in the town center. Republicans, how do you sleep at night? How do you look at yourselves in the mirrors? Yo...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 28, 2009, 8:49 am
What do you think would happen to this country without Medicare? I had a nice chat with my wife’s grandparents last night about the state of the healthcare industry, which got me thinking (look out,...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 26, 2009, 7:38 pm
I know most people will automatically write this off because it’s Michael Moore, but I think if people would listen to him, they’d find he actually makes sense. Sure, he’s a fat ass,...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 17, 2009, 4:37 pm
Sometimes when the air gets heavy, you have to slip off the grid for a while. You catch my drift? You diggin’ me, cool cat? Cars and microwaves and school buildings are just things. They do not...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 13, 2009, 8:30 am
Last night after 6 years, 3 months, and 5 days, my son finally lost his shooting star virginity. It was a long time coming. He’d searched the sky for all his life, met with nothing but frustrati...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 11, 2009, 7:33 pm
You can tell that change is in the air. We are on the verge of something big. How do I know? As a nation, we are reverting back to our childhood. While most people act like children, that’s not exac...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 11, 2009, 10:04 am
I started a new blog to talk about religion. I’m not moving my religious thoughts over there because I feel any need to censor what I write here, but I’d like to build some sort of commun...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 10, 2009, 1:10 pm
The thing that bugs me the most about the conservative talk show circuit (i.e., Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc.) is their peddling of the American ego. As a nation, we are addicted to it...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 8, 2009, 10:08 am
Yes, folks, this is where you come to learn about Conor Oberst. I try not to just repost YouTube videos on this blog but I came across these and the production value is so good, I had to share. The fi...
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 7, 2009, 12:32 pm
Take this into your weekend… Conor Oberst, One of My Kind. Download the documentary at Causecast.org.
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Mark Hammerschmidt posted an article on In Ether - Aug 6, 2009, 7:12 am
I have a suggestion for all the talking heads at Fox News who have a problem with Bill Clinton going over to North Korea and bringing back Laura Ling and Euna Lee… Feel free to head on over ther...
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