At church this morning, we did a chanting meditation to Pachelbel’s Canon.  All I could think about was this rant from Rob Paravonian:

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It felt like it took a long time, but I finally finished The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed.  I am a fan of Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant, complex man whose paradoxes demonstrate his humanity.  This book spends a lot of time examining those paradoxes.
Because Gordon-Reed refers to the Hemings, Wayles, and [...]

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