Imagine a relevant topic

Timothy Egan writes that Rick Warren’s church will be breaking ground by opening its doors to a group of homosexual dads on Father’s Day. Of course, the postscript makes it clear that Egan didn’t even get the topic of his article right, so why worry about the rest of it? Rick Warren won’t [...]

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Who would Jesus slap senseless?

This came to my attention through the writing of Katie Sherrod in Ft. Worth, Tx. Actually, I was aware of parts of it already, but she made it clear I should at least say something about it.
Bishop Gene Robinson is the Anglican/Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire. He is the first gay priest to [...]

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Schismatics named openly

Father Jake tells us that the Anglican Church of Canada is calling it as it lies. For those who aren’t wrapped up in Episcoplia, Archbishop Akinola is setting up an alternate authority for Anglican chuches that don’t want to remain in their current hierarchy because - as Akinola puts it - of the “infestation” [...]

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Racism is not subjective

A couple of commenters at Blue Jersey are taking me to task - for the act of saying that it is stupid to call the use of “scowling” an act of racism. Their proof - well, I’m not Asian, so how could I possibly know? My answer is this: I have a brain [...]

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Economic News: Bad to Worse

Oil prices took off today - more than $10 a barrel. See if you can spot the culprit:
Oil prices had their biggest-ever jump on Friday, after a senior Israeli politician raised the specter of an attack on Iran and the dollar fell against the euro.
The gains on Friday capped a second day of strong [...]

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Free at Last, Free at Last

Well, not exactly. Barack Obama has finally wrapped up the Democratic nomination, but Hillary Clinton refuses to give up the lime-light. Clinton says she is ready to serve as the VP, but her own super-delegate pick-up of the day (you gotta wonder what’s going on in his mind) is on the record:
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No More Diddley

Bo Diddley passed away today at the age of 79.

He joins Harvey Korman and so many others who have made this ragged old world a little nicer place to inhabit for sharing their talents.

We’ll miss ya, guys.
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Welcome to the Sausage Factory

I think it was Wednesday night when my wife and I watched the movie Recount (I’m not sure as to the actual day - it isn’t really important and ON DEMAND means that the actual scheduled show-time is irrelevant). Actually, I got up and left in the middle of it and took some books [...]

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I’m a-Twitter

I signed up for Twitter. So you can get a ping when I update. Which, I’m hoping, will be more often.
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