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All About Dick & Brian
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. Brian is the younger of the two and almost certainly the easier to like. In 1970, after registering as a conscientious objector to the war in Vietnam, he was sent to Bishop, California where he served ...
Bible Contradictions
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A Few Contradictions There are 2 stories of creation in Genesis There is the Priestly Account (Genesis Verse 1, Chapter I, through verse 3 of Chapter 2 and there is the Jehovistic account (Genesis verse ...
Brian's Page
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. Who knew driving could be so much fun? In late 2002, I stopped by the MINI dealer in Monrovia just to look at the BMW retro MINI Coopers they had on the lot. Camera in hand I started taking pictures ...
California's Prop 8
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A postmortem and review of California’s Proposition 8 by Dick & Brian Barrett-Marugg To sanitize an oft-repeated comparison: opinions are like … elbows. Everybody has them. The current debate ...
Contact Page
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. We'd like to hear from you. If you have any comments, ideas, opinions, suggestions or complaints, please share them with us. Brian and I would enjoy hearing from you and will be happy to respond if ...
Fiction: The Birthday Gift
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. Three days before his birthday, Tucker Thompson decided to run away from home. The nine year-old (well, he'd be nine on Tuesday and that was almost the same thing, wasn't it?) slipped from under the ...
FICTION: The Jade Tiger
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I want to set the record straight about one thing. I'm not superstitious. I mean, sure, I believe in luck. I also think a good cop learns to trust his instincts. I've made some righteous busts when I've ...
God and the Devil
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It's an accepted truism that growing old is not for the faint of heart. Equally true, though less widely accepted is the fact that just growing up can be traumatic and painful. It's sad that maturity ...
Home
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. ABOUT THE TEAM OF BARRETT-MARUGG Dick and Brian are pseudonyms for Dick and Brian. Many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away (known to astronomers as Pasadena, California) they made a decision to ...
Genesis
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. The Priestly Account of Genesis (According to the King James Version) 1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the ...
Opinion Page
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. "That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx As children, we eventually learn that Santa Claus, the Good Fairy and the Easter Bunny don't really exist.
Riding to save lives
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Back in 1997 I decided to ride in what was then called the California AIDS Ride. I did this for several reasons: one, to honor my dad who had passed away several years before and two, for the personal ...
Straight Talk
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A few words on behalf of our “breeder†friends. Discrimination is evil. We accept people for who they are. We’ve always believed heterosexuals should have the same rights as gays. As long as someone ...
Stupid People
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Stupid People Shouldn't Breed Kellogg Company Fails to Protect Stupid People That's the feeling of the New Jersey couple who are suing the Kellogg Company for $100,000 after a fire destroyed part of their ...
The Fiction Page
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. Three days before his birthday, Tucker Thompson decided to run away from home. The nine year-old (well, he'd be nine on Tuesday and that was almost the same thing, wasn't it?) slipped from under the ...
The Fiction Page
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. mmmmmm Aspects and Issues - Sitemap - Websites We Recommend - Contact Us - A Family Photogallery - Pictures from the Ride ...
The Flight of the Golden Eagle
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I admire golden eagles. It has nothing to do with their appearance although they are beautiful. It has nothing to do with their personalities. As birds go, they are not particularly friendly. They are ...
The Story of Dick: Breaking Free
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. The next two years were spent marking time. For the first year, I lived with an East Logmeadow family I had met through the local parish church. In spite of having four children already, Tom and Diane ...
The Story of Dick: Coming out
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The Story of Dick: Final Thoughts
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The Story of Dick: Jesse
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. There can be no question that the God I worshipped in those days had a sense of humor. The transition from rebellious teenager to humble and obedient postulant would have been difficult enough had ...
The Story of Dick: On to Phoenix
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. With a population of 1.5 million and an area of 470 square miles, Phoenix , Arizona is today the 6th or 7th largest city in the United States . This is not the Phoenix I remember. The city I was taken ...
The Story of Dick: The Loner finds a Partner
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The Story of Dick: The Reunion
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. I lost my status as The Grandson Who Was Going to Become a Priest in early July when I received a letter from Holy Cross advising me that, after reviewing my records, it was decided by the faculty ...
The Story of Dick: The Tale Begins
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. My biological entry into the world was in Lee Hall, Virginia just outside of Newport News and occurred on the 10th of February, 1945. It was my misfortune to be born to Edward Richard Barrett, an ...
The Story of Dick: The Teenage Years
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. The boy who returned to Northampton wasn’t the same one who’d left just two months before. Melrose changed me. I remember sitting at the kitchen table after supper one evening while Georgiana ...
The Vice of Sincerity
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Too Much Sincerity Can Ruin a Guy Anyone who has ever scanned the personal classified ads has encountered the phrase "sincere only" or "looking for sincere (whatever) for relationship/friend/pen ...
Websites we like
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. DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ A recent issue of The Onion reported the alarming news that a woman in Ohio (or maybe it was Alaska or Louisiana or South Dakota ... who remembers?) found a mistake ...