By Hal Sirowitz, from before, during, and after Believing in Fate I don’t have a telephone, she said, so I can’t give you a number. I’m not a great fan of planned dates. But if I happen to bump into…
QOTD: John Lancaster Spalding
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. –John Lancaster Spalding, Catholic educator
In Congress, Religion Drives Divide
From therevealerfeed: A study of congressional voting patterns over the last 25 years shows that religious affiliation helps create an ideological divide between Republicans and Democrats that virtually ensures a partisan split on almost all votes—not just the culture war…
Poetry Fix: When Our Women Go Crazy
When Our Women Go Crazy –Julia Kasdorf from Sleeping Preacher When our women go crazy, they’re scared there won’t be enough meat in the house. They keep asking but how will we eat? Who will cook? Will there be enough?…
Thursday & Friday
Yesterday I got to visit the wizards at Three-13, Jason and Rico. So I’m newly shorn and my roots are hidden again. I wasn’t really in the right headspace to be there, though. I had a nasty migraine by the…
BMWs
B U Z Z W O R D O F T H E D A Y BMWs: Bitchers, Moaners, and Whiners. “We’d get a lot more accomplished if we didn’t have so many BMWs working here.” — Got a buzzword…
Feel Better!
ariedana, I hope you get over your illness quickly! *hugs*
General Sanchez “Effectively Opened the Way” for the Use of Torture at Abu Ghraib
Army’s Report Faults General in Prison Abuse Military officials and others in the Bush administration have repeatedly said the Geneva Conventions applied to all prisoners in Iraq, even though members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban held in Afghanistan and…
The Case of the Uncertain Desk
We’re getting rid of two computer desks that just weren’t working out properly, so I offered them on Freecycle. One was outside, sitting under the eaves next to the garage. The other went out last night. I only gave one…
Now With the Virgos!
Happy Birthday keiracaitlyn!