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Family Snaps

I know you've all been waiting breathlessly for this, so here's my uncle's reply to my email from the other day about Muslim profiling and airport security: I understand that you are a writer and perhaps tend toward the dramatic, but let's

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By: William Shunn

Bill Is...

IS * Bill is a Potemkin reform * Bill is ready * Bill is the only way forward * Bill is shelved * Bill is watching you * Bill is just smarter * Bill is getting nowhere * Bill is passed * Bill is read for the first time * Bill is focused on porn * Bill is worth $33.45

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Errandman!

I left for my lunchtime errands at 11:45 a.m. I took the 6 train downtown from 33rd Street to Bleecker Street to meet my wife at a little boutique for a fitting for some custom clothes. Then I bid my wife farewell and headed back uptown to the

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Penicillin

So, with █████'s strep throat, the doctor prescribed her a course of penicillin—and a course for me too. Now I'm taking these nasty 500mg tablets every six hours. I have trouble swallowing pills, and these mothers are big. Oh, well, maybe they'll kill all

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Family Jewels

Do you all have relatives that forward you the stupidest, most offensive emails ever written? I love my uncle dearly, but he has the habit. I just got the one from him, which you've probably seen, about how racial profiling of Muslim males at airport security is justified,

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By: William Shunn

What I Will Be Watching This Evening

Tonight the new season of the documentary series P.O.V. debuts on PBS, with an episode called "The Smith Family": The Smiths of Salt Lake City may have America's most common surname, but their story is anything but ordinary. With two boys, a dog, a

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By: William Shunn
Missionary Man

New Submissions

I got "Why I Think I'll Be Staying Home Tonight" back from Gordon at F&SF in the record time of five days. I also got "Sparkler" back from Ellen at Sci Fiction. So I sent "Sparkler" out to Gordon immediately,

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The Privileged Class

So I prepared a manuscript for submission this morning, and I stopped by the post office on the way to work to mail it. This was the post office on 34th Street between Park and Lex, at about 10 am. As I approached the propped-open front door, I had

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Frequently Answered Questions

Question 9

"Haven't you ever heard that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all? So why can't you just keep your mouth shut about us?"

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Flip-Flop on Thongs

Here's an amusing article about the BYU dress policy from a recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, sent to me by my friend Bob: Flip-Flop on Thongs by Christopher Flores June 14, 2002 When some incoming freshmen at Brigham Young University's Idaho campus

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Unhappy in Utah

Check out this article on depression in Utah, from CBSNews.com: Unhappy in Utah Yes, this is the happy state where I grew up. The most disturbing bit of the article is the part where they quote statistics on suicide in Utah among 5- to 22-year-olds. Are we

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By: William Shunn
Missionary Man

Latest Submissions and Other Writing Tasks

It's been a busy month since my last post. The biggest news of direct import to Missionary Man fans is the KGB reading which I announced in my previous entry. I was paranoid at first that it wouldn't actually happen, but now Ellen Datlow is sending

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By: Elder Shunn

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