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  • Rational Discussion Expected

    [clear] BATTLE ESCALATES! Tom Delay declares legitimate debate by people of good will against a Judiciary run amok in their War on Faith. The New American Homeland Security Vatican announced its Pope with smoke and bells on the steps of the Supreme Court. “And to imagine, I always thought it was grape juice,” Delay said,…

  • Mystery of the Lost Disaster Twins’ Episode

    [clear] I first came upon Julia and Robbie when we were being told to put plastic over the windows and duct tape our doors if the anthrax was blowin’ in the wind. Julia and Robbie first startled me. Then they made me happy. I read them several times over, delighted with FEMA. A bar had…

  • Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz

    [clear] I’ve been trying to track back down a Laura Bush-approved book for children on the war where kids are supposed to eat a star candy each day until mom or dad returns and send mom or dad star-shaped cookies. I came across it by chance the other night and can’t find it now. Thought…

  • Learning how to honor the truth by being taught how G. W. never told a lie

    First off. Despite the fact I was over at Stone Bridge lamenting the fact I used to love movies and how I hate Hollywood movies and how most have no substance, I got all way too excited when I came upon Arvin Hill’s Carnival of Horrors and his profile giving him as liking “Shakes the…

  • A Radiant Botanist’s Primer: Lesson one, on the weeds and the flowers

    From the NY Times which I see today has an article on megachurches (a subject I brought up in Friday’s post). When you ask people how Radiant has changed their lives, they will almost invariably talk about how it helped open their hearts. But there’s a kind of narrowing going on here as well, which…

  • And she stole all the curtains and the dresser

    Consider this two posts in one. Happen (yesterday morning now) across the story at Pandagon. The IMAX movie, “Volcanoes of the Deep Sea”, banned at venues in southern states (GA, SC, NC and TX). Why? Because it mentions the dreaded big E word. Even the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Texas has…

  • Techniques that profit nothing and fantastic invasions

    Billmon’s left sidebar shows he’s reading Robert Gellately’s “Backing Hitler, Consent & Coercion in Nazi Germany”. I would post too in side bars what I read but the things I’m most influenced by I’ve been reading for 20 years, so wouldn’t be “things I’m reading” but “here’s my flesh and bone, looks suspiciously like paper…

  • A congregation of harpies

    So, I went from Alas, a Blog’s postings on Schiavo to Trish Wilson’s posting on Schiavo, after which she promised it would be a Schiavo-free zone. I commented and am now back here. I, too, hadn’t intended to blog on Terri Schiavo. Even last night after reading the latest at the NY Times, the argument…

  • Spring is when Jesus dies. I remembered this Sunday because the billboards were up

    Spring is nearly here. Virtually here. In the south, in Georgia, spring arrives early. One day in March you open your door and stumble over spring into summer. For the next couple of weeks summer and winter play badminton over spring’s head then send her off. Once a decade an ice storm will sweep through…

  • Road to Stone Bridge

    The below is from Stone Bridge. So in any case I went to college in 1959–maybe the problem was education–and quickly became a an activist in anti-segregation demonstrations, then soon enough a little bit beyond liberal, and by the end of the 60s a full-tilt revolutionary socialist. Though I have long since mostly reverted to…

  • When I was seven I was told all about savings and interest

    I make rounds through the blogs, or start to. Alas a blog is down for the moment. “Permission denied” error. Seems an upgrade or change and PHP/MySQL is taunting them with it. Making note because this morning I was amused. Working with PHP pages can drive one nuts, especially when you grew up on HTML…

  • Big brother and cautious moms

    I don’t know where to start. I don’t want to leave Mediagirl’s blogging on cloture and what it means to constituents as versus the politicians. Nor do I want to leave the subject of Giuliana Sgrena (Nur al-Cubicle has up a translation of an interview of her by Marco Imarisio of Il Corriere dell Sera).…