Posted by XT on June 15th, 2008 in Progressive Faith
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 [...]
Posted by XT on June 10th, 2008 in Progressive Faith
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 [...]
Posted by XT on June 10th, 2008 in Progressive Faith
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” [...]
Posted by XT on June 8th, 2008 in General
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 [...]
Posted by XT on June 6th, 2008 in US News
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 [...]
Posted by XT on June 3rd, 2008 in Campaign News
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:
Updated | [...]
Posted by XT on June 2nd, 2008 in US News
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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Posted by XT on June 1st, 2008 in Campaign News
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 [...]
Posted by XT on June 1st, 2008 in This blog
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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