According to Joey The Accordion Guy the official fight song of the Internet should be that instantly recognizable classic, the "Amok Time" fight scene music where Kirk and Spoke duke it out with various bizarre weapons so Spock can marry his betrothed… and all that that implies. Like the Vulcan ritual that the music underscored, most internet arguments are triggered by a response in the most primitive parts of our brains, look silly to outsiders and seem to be taken up by people who are slated to have sex once every seven years. My favorite weapon was always when T'Pol…
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First of all, I had no idea that there was any such thing as the "Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church", but I'm delighted to find that it exists, and seems to be going strong. Not only that, but several of the mainline churches that are all part of it have permanent committees that study the impact of science on religion: the Presbyterian Association for Science Technology and the Church, the ELCA Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology, and our own Episcopal Committee on Science, Technology and Faith. The Methodists and the United Church of Christ also reported on holding…
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I'll try something from time to time here – when one of the random thumbnails catches my eye, I'll tell the story behind it. This was taken on a May trip to Washington State a few years back. David and I flew out for Folk Life and then took off on a big loop around the Olympic Peninsula, the National Park, and down and around the long way, ending up at Mt. Rainier National Park. It was a lot of fun, but the next time we do that, we'll retrace steps rather than circumnavigating the peninsula, it was a very…
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Okay, now that I'm finally fed up with tinkering with CSS and getting Firefox and IE6 to play more or less nicely… This morning started oddly; David had to take off reeely early in the morning on a sekrit mission (no gurlz aloud) so the morning routine was a little different. He was all "Love you, bye!" and I was all "Whaaa… huh… ::smack smack scratch scratch:: love you too mmm bye." I don't do mornings very well at all, see. And then all too soon it was time to jump in the car and get to church for rehearsal,…
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Here's one way to do it: grab people who waste power and shake some sense into them. Sorry about the down time – my husband David wasn't around today and so I had to wait for him to walk me through the difficult and dangerous procedure by phone to get the blogs back up. Here's what he had me do: Walk downstairs and identify which of several "tower" computers is the one where the blogs and David's computer archives reside (hint for next time – it's the one in the middle). Cycle power. Walk upstairs and see if blogs and…
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Monastery of the Remarkable English Martyrs: Creator and Redeemer of All the Worlds Someone is already pondering it… much as I suspected.
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The Lead "Illiberal winds are blowing pernicious policy and polity changes our way," the Rev. Canon Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University says. "…The Communiqué from the Tanzanian Primates’ meeting brought the intentions of those who dictated its content more fully out of the closet." What delicious use of irony – those intentions are meant to force gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons back into the closet, at least in the Anglican church. Must read this more carefully tomorrow. And I like that term "illiberal." It's time we defined the opposition in terms of what they…
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Operation Eagle Eye | Campaign for America's Future I didn't have time to go digging for juicy citations, but Campaign for America's Future did.
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Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling – New York Times In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper maintenance, apparent looting and expensive equipment that lay idle. Good GOD, when will the horrific, politically embarassing scandals cease coming down the pike? January, 2008 can't come too fast for this country (or this Administration).
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Crooks and Liars » Sen. Durbin Drops Bombshells on the Senate Floor Sworn to secrecy as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL knew the American public was being fed lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, because he was hearing the true secret evidence in a room not far from the Senate chamber, and had to sit and listen to debates in the Senate that he knew were shored up by lies, damn lies, and statistics. And he couldn't say a word about what he knew, and was mighty angry about that. He's coming…