Quick Links for Today:
- I'm not sure what's sadder about this: the number of people whose lives will be adversely affected by obesity or the likelihood that some wingnut will hold these stats up as evidence that conspicuous consumption, greed, and gluttony are good things, i.e.,
- "[C]hildren should have a mother and a father and…gay marriage would subvert that. …[G]ay culture [is] all about promiscuity and sexual liberation. Marriage might kill what he loved about being gay."
- "Ah, the subjunctive mood! Editors have been writing its obituary for the past 400 years. It may be dead, but it won't lie down."
- "A reader writes: 'Can a sincere atheist get saved?'"
- Yikes!
- "Who is this trying to reach? Which demographic is this for? The unchurched clown population? Or maybe the aging and increasingly irrelevant boomers who remember earth shoes and patchouli incense and wax nostalgic for the glory days of Haight-Ashbury."
- "See where these accursed occupations can lead you, if you continue to lose yourself in them — without leaving anything of yourself for yourself."
- "I understood this vocation to be a mission to live the question posed by this ‘calling’ in a spirit of faithfulness to the church….to embody the question, ‘If not ordination, then what?"
- How sinful would it be for me to pray that the music industry execs in question gets a nasty case of boils?
- At least he sings better than William Shatner.
- "We’ve been fascinated by the story of how Jim Bensman of Alton, Ill., went to a hearing about fish and wound up as a potential terrorism suspect."
- "Long-term potentiation (LTP) underlies memory formation in the hippocampus, according to two new studies, adding support to a contentious hypothesis."
- "Her: What's your name? Me: Zarkon: destroyer of worlds."
- "First we find out we’re fatter than normal … and now they’re telling us we’re stupider (!) than normal."
- "Rather than reveal a spiritual centre in the brain, a module of neural circuits specifically designed for religious experience, the study demonstrated that a dozen different regions of the brain are activated during a mystical experience."
- "The move to canonize the son of Peoria with the Louvain agrege who lived in Manhattan, served as bishop of Rochester and was assigned a titular see in Wales is quickening in its pace. Two alleged miracles have been presented to the Holy See, with all the
- "Despite their obvious age differences (25 years old vs 2000 years) and the seeming gap of mission, MTV and the Catholic Church have more in common than you'd think."
- "A truly chilling example of foreshadowing, The Voice of the Prophet is an interview with Rick Rescorla, the head of security for the investment firm Morgan Stanley Dean Witter…long before Osama bin Laden became America's Most Wanted."
- "It makes a point without being sanctimonious or condescending."
- Complete lyrics to Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song".
- "You may or may not be aware that the county of Allegheny is considering passing a ban on smoking in workplaces, including bars and restaurants."
- "economic efficiency and environmental concerns go hand in hand"
- "Weight lifting has definitely changed my life. Ask any person who has taken up weight lifting and you will get the same response. I guarantee it. So why should every man lift weights?"
- "The New York Times is a capitalist enterprise, although you’d never know it by reading it."
- "Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only 'evil and inhuman' things."
- "[I]f the Bible does not forbid it, you can do it." I'm all about Christians embracing sexuality as God-given, but that doesn't mean "everything goes". "Nothing goes" is wrong, too, though.
- Rob's not pleased. I am. At least I would be if the minister in question were getting more than a slap on the wrist.
- Too cool for words.
Funky Dung
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