• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Before

    July 25, 2009 - By 

    The "guest room" is currently the room where we dump travel stuff and home improvement junk left over from the floor job on the smaller room. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Before By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Jul ’09, 11.17am CDT PST

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2009-07-23

    July 23, 2009 - By 

    Burr Oak Cemetery hallowed again :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State (tags: episcopalian News) Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com (tags: books) Whatever Happened to the Apple TV? – Columns by PC Magazine (tags: Apple TV)

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Required Reading for Sarah Palin’s Impending Leisure Time

    July 23, 2009 - By 

    Charlie Pierce’s “Idiot America.”Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com Mockery has been an important part of informed citizenry ever since the concept of citizenry was invented. Satire is a weapon of the disenfranchised and the un-empowered. One of the most distressing developments of recent times is that people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are regularly referred to as “satirists,” when, in fact, they are mere bullies on behalf of the established powers. I don’t argue that mockery makes us smarter, but it can make us better citizens. I hope Sarah…

  • Clan: McTiVo - SciFi/Fantasy

    Children of Earth Day Three

    July 22, 2009 - By 

    We’ve really, really been riveted by Torchwood’s 5 part miniseries this week. Today’s the day when the creepiness ramps up even more. Meanwhile, our surviving heroes have to start from scratch, because their cool underground lair got blowed up on Monday. Torchwood: Children of Earth – BBC America The Captain Jack Harkness character is immortal, and one thing I’d wondered about was what would happen if he was blown to smithereens. We found out on Day Two – this was one of those nagging questions that always bothered Highlander fans, too. Jack faces some of the same issues as a…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Hot Off The Presses - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Wait, How Do You Grow By Excluding People Again?

    July 19, 2009 - By 

    As a liberal Episcopalian, I cheered and was cheered by the passage of several inclusive, progressive resolutions at the recently concluded convention. We can go forward now, I think. #ecgc Pared-Down Episcopal Church Is Looking to Grow Through ‘Inclusivity’ – NYTimes.com Not everybody agrees with this view, or is happy about the changes – even some in my own state, in the two more conservative dioceses downstate, away from the Chicago urban/suburban area. They are genuinely grieved, and they believe that the church is in the process of ruining itself. I don’t agree; I think we are finally ready to…