Bishop Gene Robinson: “I will not resign.”Well, good on you. I pray that we may all be one on this issue (oh, don’t look so shocked, it’s in the Prayer Book and everything). It’s interesting how much more conservative the African bishops are, and how naive we liberal Americans were for thinking that everyone else in the Anglican world would be okay with a concept that some of us have struggled to become okay with ourselves. In microcosm, some people still struggle at the local level, but I have hopes that the strugglers can come to terms with their feelings…
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Regarding yesterday’s plane crash in Missouri: when this kind of thing happens, the airline inhibits the internal flight information that we can look up in the reservations system. There’s just no sane way to to update flifo with “Plane crashed” and not seem really crude and heartless. Normal flifo for that flight for today shows that it’s been cancelled, but with no explanation: 2AA5966/20OCT« AA5966/20OCT CORPORATE AIRLINES STL 642P B14 IRK 734P 1FX CANCEL STL -IRK - *1001 Flifo for yesterday’s fatal crash simply comes back 2AA5966/19OCT« FLIFO DISPLAY AND UPDATES INHIBITED.
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I gave Media Matters some money, a few minutes ago. They’ve made my day. In fact, I’m so cheered up generally that I’ll actually talk about something other than politics for a minute: the proposed film of Pattern Recognition. One of these days (I’m shooting for November 3rd or 4th, you know) I’ll get back to nattering on about something other than my nascent interest in politics. I’m pretty cheered up generally by a lot of the things linked at Media Matters, a site I’ve run across before. So I added them to my Bloglines list. They’re probably a little…
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It’s been interesting tracking citations of the Ron Suskind article; that paragraph about how reporters and other people who think about the issues are part of the “reality-based community” has been making the rounds. And now Joey, soon to be known as Engaged Guy, has created a handy graphic. I can’t wait to see this mutate into buttons, shirts, web banners, and so on. So far, it’s showed up in a bunch of articles gathered at The Smirking Chimp (natch), plus lots of other commentators at major news sites, plus blogs, yadda yadda. Apparently we’re all shocked and awed that…
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People ask how we do the job we do, and there’s another answer, too: because of you. We fight, and you hope. The act of taking up that banner links everyone together, even if you never take up a weapon. Freedom doesn’t mean isolation; it means connection, and admittance to a club with a wide-open membership. We have a common desire, it’s just the execution that’s different. People ask how they can support us. It’s very simple. Vote. I don’t care who you vote for, I just care that you do. Our deaths, our injuries, our sacrifices, are all payment…
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Oh, yes, I’ve been wanting one of these for a while now. David has one, and his photos always come out with much more depth and richness than my current camera can give. In the May road trip album, all the pictures I took in Moab of rock art came out pretty “meh” because of the glare, and the fact that I couldn’t change focus (much) on my camara – it has digital zoom, which I found did not work very well on pictures I took for the England trip. David’s, meanwhile, came out much better, though a stepladder might…
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The concert is today at 4pm at Holy Moly. I have to run around a lot, so more later.
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Kerry, we acknowledge, stands to the left of this newspaper on many issues. To restore fiscal order and responsibility, he must leave behind some of the social programs he favors. As a practical matter, a check on his more liberal instincts might be provided by a Congress that is likely to remain in Republican hands – although this Congress has aided and abetted the Bush administration’s building of record deficits. My God! The Daily Herald, a conservative suburban newspaper with a distinctly faith-based, family-oriented slant (Holy Moly advertises in it occasionally) endorses a Democrat challenger over a Republican incumbent. It’s…
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The Chicago Tribune has endorsed George W. Bush for President. Apparently the editorial was written by a journalist who, in spite of the many proven omissions, prevarications, contextual elisions and flat-out lies put out by the administration, spouts the same tired “strong leader, working hard” party line. It’s particularly shocking given that they have endorsed Bean over Crane, Obama over Keyes. Perhaps the Trib is merely attempting to preserve the appearance of non-partisanship, because the editorial is thoughtfully and carefully written. However, the arguments for retaining Bush and rejecting Kerry smack a little too much of shopworn Republican talking points.…
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And so it begins – the next season of TAR features a good sister/bad sister team from Utah, and the “bad” sister is a former stripper, while the “good” sister is a devout member of the Charch. Now maybe I can get my sisters hooked on this highly addictive show. To eeeeevil! *clink*