• Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    On This Day: +Gene Confirmed Bishop

    August 3, 2006 - By 

    BBC ON THIS DAY | 3 | 2003: Anglican church approves gay bishop Yes, three years ago today +Gene Robinson was approved and confirmed by General Convention 2003 of The Episcopal Church, which was then acronymized as “ECUSA.” There’s been a lot of turbulent water under the bridge since then… a LOT. But at the time, I thought it was a good step forward, and I still do. Gay clergy and lay leadership helped me in my personal formation as a better Christian (aw! that’s such an Episcopal usage, “formation”). I never found Biblical literalism helpful in any way: it’s…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2006-08-02

    August 1, 2006 - By 

    The Moderate Voice – – (tags: Moderate Blogs) The Raw Story | MoveOn’s clout divides Democrats (tags: Democrats MoveOn) The Raw Story | Experts: Not a single Army Combat team left ready to deploy Army unready to deploy: let’s not commit ourselves to more wars (tags: Army) GOP purging voter rolls | IndyStar.com (tags: VoteSuppression Republican) Gibson Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Remarks | Chicago Tribune In Vino Veritas, Mel (tags: Gibson Anti-semitism DUI) Fashion week: Your nagging questions answered. By Josh Patner (tags: ProjectRunway Model)

  • Blogs Wot I Read

    This Will Freak Steve Out

    August 1, 2006 - By 

    Boing Boing: How thieves steal RFID-enabled cars Apparently, it’s absurdly easy to steal a car by hacking or social engineering if it has a RFID key. And some Honda hybrids apparently can be started with a sekrit combination of pulls on the emergency brake and a faked or disabled key in the ignition.

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2006-08-01

    July 31, 2006 - By 

    Breaking: Lieberman tries the smear | TPMCafe (tags: DINO Lieberman Lamont Politics) Playing politics on public television Mayor William Shaw and brother Robert use Dolton’s cable station to harass rivals without rebuttal | Chicago Tribune Badly written, worse edited, but still interesting reading about how a cable access show is used to play dirty politics in South Chicago (tags: Chicago Politics CorruptDemocrats) TIME.com: A Mixture of Regret and Resolve in Israel — Page 1 (tags: Israel MiddleEast) CNN.com – Blair, Arnie ‘global warming pact’ – Jul 31, 2006 End run around Bush (tags: GlobalWarming ClimateChange SwelterAge) AP Wire | 07/31/2006…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    The Newest Age of Man: The Melt Age

    July 31, 2006 - By 

    I read something online recently about how “climate change” and “global warming” just don’t cut it as sufficiently frightening metaphors for the rising sea levels, melting ice caps and glacierrs, unusually hotweather in summer, unusually mild weather in winter, alternating deluges and droughts depending on which part of the country you live in, and unusuallydevastating seasonal storms. As in, “hello, Katrina and Rita.” It made me wonder what better handle there might be for all of this weather-related irregularities. So I started thinking about all the different eras we humans have named in our journey from the past to the…