from “Special” Correspondent T. S. deHaviland
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read “If you aren’t outraged, you haven’t been paying attention.”
Amen.
It’s amazing that, even after the rollback of the Constitution under the USA PATRIOT act, even after the memos suspending the human rights of “enemy combatants,” even after the withdrawal from ABM [...]
It is interesting that our greatest recent successes in the War on Terror have been arrests in Pakistan and Great Britain that look a heck of a lot more like the good, old-fashioned police work John Kerry envisions than the (literally) bombastic “smoke ‘em out of their holes” approach favored by George W. Bush.
This seems [...]
Now, I can’t be accused of being a political moderate. In fact, I’m so far left that my childhood nickname was Pinky von Redsickle. In high-school I was voted “Most Likely to Defect.”
But it seems to me that the big shift in American politics was not away from the left, but away from the center. [...]
What if, when Mary had the insurmountable task of naming the Savior, the Son of the Lord God in Heaven, the one and only perfect human to ever live, she fumbled a little. What if she called him Steam Harry? Pastors would bellow righteously, “Trust in the name of Steam Harry to deliver [...]
The RSS feed is fixed again, LiveJournal pals. My trademark happy letter to a “fine cereal maker” broke it.
The dirty little secret that not even the biblical literalists will admit to is that even the biblical literalists do thier share of interpreting the Bible.
F’rinstance, they seem to pay a lot of attention to Leviticus 18:22, which excoriates homosexuality, but completely ignore the large chunks of that book devoted to how unclean pork [...]
I recently finished a pile of books from the Book Nook that I bought last summer, all of which ended up being about upper-class (or appearing to be upper-class) women who have extramarital affairs. I guess I should have guessed, coming from a place whose Romance section comprises four aisles and half the store. [...]