Right from the start

After years of being mean and unfair to conservatives I have found I was not mean and unfair enough

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There are a number of Zen stories that hint at the circular nature of some types of learning. There are several about a butcher, but I can’t seem to find the one that lodged in my mind years ago in which a butcher says that when he started, he only saw the whole bull; then, over years, learned …