On Christmas, America Celebrates the Birth of Reverse Jesus
What if we were to actually use the life of Christ as a basis for Christmas?
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I have many beautiful memories of Christmas as a child. By age 6, I learned I could get out of church on Christmas Eve just by refusing to get dressed, a crucial lesson in the power of Gandhian passive resistance. There were always gifts under our tree purportedly from our cat, which taught me how much fun it is to create elaborate myths with only the loosest basis in reality. I still have a pirate ornament I had received after performing at age 12 in “The Pirates of Penzance,” together with a future “Daily Show” correspondent and a physicist specializing in quantum information.
Patricia Davis does not have a run-of-the-mill coaching resume.
Fauquier High s new swimming coach spent long hours in the water in California, Hawaii and back to California before arriving in Virginia this fall with her husband, Jud, who had completed a stay in the military.Â
Davis attended a job fair for long-term substitute teachers and was hired at Taylor Middle School, where she teaches special education. She learned of the Fauquier opening and decided to apply.Â
Her resume and youthful enthusiasm made an impact on Fauquier activities director Mark Ott. I think she s going to do a great job. I m really looking forward to working with her, said Ott.
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Top Stories 2020: Marine Corps Operations
December 23, 2020 11:14 AM
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin McBain, a fire support specialist with 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Information Group, monitors a radio during exercise Summer Fury 20 in Yuma, Ariz., on July 14, 2020. US Marine Corps Photo
This post is part of a series of stories looking back at the top naval news from 2020.
2020 was a turning-point year for the Marine Corps. After previewing changes to come in his Commandant’s Planning Guidance released last year, Commandant Gen. David Berger released a Force Design 2030 document this year outlining major changes in how the service would operate and equip itself. No longer would the Marine Corps be a service schlepping around tanks for sustained ground operations; rather, it would be light and mobile, using small ships to maneuver around islands and shorelines to attack an adversary from all angles and challenge their abi
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