Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has resigned. I just happened to have an NPR webcast on and heard the Resident’s statement. And Justice Rehnquist is stepping down any time now, too. The climate in this country is going to get remarkably stormy and dangerous for women whose birth control method fails them. Thank God I got the snip, and I’m probably already past it anyway. But thank God. I’ve already stopped by the NARAL Pro-Choice America website. They’re asking for people to contact our senators. If you have a story to tell, there’s a website called I’m Not Sorry. It seems…
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… whether Michael Jackson is guilty or not. Naturally, everyone in the office is all a-quiver and jumping online to try to find live video. I can hear live feed-type audio coming from all over. Naturally, this will slow the office network to a crawl. If only the Onion had a live feed. That would be a lot more bearable. And of course now I’m curious enough to try to get a live feed going, but must try to resist. But if he’s guilty and he starts to cry in court, I’m betting his nose falls off. UPDATE: Huh? Okay,…
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A followup to the story of Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran chaplain at the Air Force Academy; she had complained about excessive evangelical influence and an opressive religious atmosphere there. As she predicted, she’s “toast.” And she’s being redeployed to Okinawa, surely a comedown from being chief of the chaplain unit at the Academy: Air Force Removes Chaplain From Post>After several “reasonably tense” days among the academy chaplains, Morton said, she received an e-mail on May 4 from Whittington. It said a new executive officer would be named, effective immediately. Fox, the academy spokesman, said this change was made because…
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Our Preziduhnt is very busy. He leads the Free World. He is very smart. He reads books. He likes to read them to little children. He likes to ride bikes. Ride, ride, ride Mr. Preziduhnt! No one will bother him during your nice bike ride. They know how busy and smart and fit to lead the Free World he is. They won’t bother you during naptime, either Red Alert! Where’s the Captain?
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Colorado Springs is a very, very, very religious place, and the Air Force Academy is a little too cozy with the leadership of Focus on the Family, the Navigators (knew one in college… very scary) and the Officer’s Christian Fellowship. The academy had that little rape problem a while back, and now apparently they have a little religious intolerance problem, too. When a recent tolerance program was shown to a ranking officer, he responded “Why is it that the Christians never win?” A study conducted by the Yale Divinity School (another hotbed of mainline, non-evangelical, non-fundamentalist theological error) noted the…
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Lately at Holy Moly, we’ve been kicking around the idea of how to welcome people. Do we do it well, or do we do it badly (and risk a snarky write-up in The Ship Of Fools “Mystery Worshipper” annals)? This is something we’ll have to work out in the coming weeks. With that in mind, I was pretty horrified but unfortunately not all that surprised to run across this: WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – The minister of a Haywood County Baptist church is telling members of his congregation that if they’re Democrats, they either need to find another place of worship or…
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Authorities told CLTV a couple in their 40s had been drinking and were sitting in the front living room of the house when they allegedly decided to light a commercial firework they had obtained and possessed illegally. The couple then allegedly could not figure out how to extinguish the fuse, CLTV reported. The device exploded, damaging the house and setting it on fire. Neighbors heard the blast, called 911 and rushed to the scene. … Carmen Morales, spokesman for Nicor, said the house did not have natural gas service at the time of the explosion. Eichelberger said the dwelling’s electrical…
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The big sad news in the area, of course, is the Vasilev murders. The satellite trucks are no longer gathering for “live updates” and about the only visible sign from the main street in the neighborhood is a white van (no, I’m not driving or walking down there). It appeared that somebody had set up one of those shrine things for a while – 3 crosses on the corner – but they’re gone. The Trib published the transcript of the 911 call today – it seems to take forever for the trained operator to comprehend that children had been stabbed…
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Spamhaus estimates that by the summer of 2006 spam will account for 95% of all e-mails sent and the problem will not be alleviated until the US acts to toughen its laws. British anti-spam laws are even more toothlessly useless than the US ones, apparently. 95%? Also according to Spamhaus, Australia has a strong anti-spam law. They report a reduction in overall spam, known spammers are keeping a lower profile, and at least one has left the country.
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There’s smoke in the air; it looks almost white-ish; Papal expectations, everybody’s watching for you The populi in St Peter’s Square, they all seem to know you The cardinals act like you’re all infallible now Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome Everybody venerates you, ma illegitimi non carborundum You look in the cameras; the choir begins to sing Hopeful Roman antics, and you’re the guy in charge But after awhile, you’re fidgetin’ in your cassock It’s not the damn tailor’s fault you’re a medium-large Bennie the Sixteenth, the new Pope in Rome They all venerate you, ma illegitimi…