Via Clack: Don’t think for one minute that it’ll stop with just abortion. Some pharmacists refuse to dispense birth-control pills on moral grounds. There are legal protections for pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth control, too. They’re supposed to make arrangements for another pharmacist to fill the scrip, but some even refuse to do that. Which makes me wonder if the RTL movement has been quietly working to get a lot of pharmacists into their tent… if you object to birth control on moral grounds, one way to stop it is to cut off the supply at a convenient choke…
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Via Salt: a good laugh from The Borowitz Report .com, which report that an openly Episcopal man has joined the Village People. Open schism is possible, although the Construction Guy urged “tolerance and understanding” in a recent statement. Heh. Look for an Anglican chant version of “YMCA” soon. In the meantime, here is the highway report. As it happens, we did a bit of Anglican chant today for our main service – it was the celebration of All Saints’ Day, which was last Monday. We did a version of the Beatitudes set to music by Richard Proulx. By coincidence, my…
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John Perry Barlow’s post election essay helps to put things into perspecitive, post-electionwise: Magnanimous Defeat Meanwhile, Jesus’ General helpfullly passes along a link to the Theocracy Mentorship Program, which puts US Blue bloggers together with Iranian bloggers to get survival tips for living mostly free under a theocracy. For those that feel that living in a theocracy is not worth the trouble, Jahiri has some advice. “The key to self-immolation is location, location, location. I recommend shopping centers or busy open parks. If you intend to go out in flames, make sure people see it.” As for me, I’ve been…
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Thanks to Jeff at Clack, I’m now thoroughly creeped out on the subject of this season’s Scary Word, “Dominionism.” I got here via Theocracy Watch. Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical “warfare” is the centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders (notably Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping, and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, “sodomy or homosexuality,” incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile delinquency, and, in the…
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Ready? It’s called the “Predict Headlines From Bush’s 2nd Term Game.” The rules are encapsulated by the game’s name, and the playground is the Comments box. “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!”‘s Adam Felber suggests a fun group activity to keep us occupied while he gallivants around to weddings and other lifestyle events of the not-rich and not-very-famous. A short sampling: Jesus Returns – Says, “This isn’t what I had in mind.” CONGRESS PASSES REALITY BAN HIGH COURT RULES LIFE BEGINS ON “THIRD DATE” He’s in better spirits now that he got his concession screed off his chest. Tomorrow’s show is…
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my husband David was wondering at the bandwidth usage around here. I took a look at my stats page (he’s the text-based log guy, I’m the GUI-fied stats girl) and did a little Googling around: Lost in Technophilia : Bye bye news.allresearch.com You Are So Banned! Corporate America Is Reading Your Blog I’m thinking I want them banned, too: news.allresearch.com ? 614 614 2.48 MB 30 Sep 2004 – 23:11 sp1.allresearch.com ? 26 26 60.54 KB 14 Sep 2004 – 14:08 news.allresearch.com ? 1224 1224 5.06 MB 31 Oct 2004 – 23:04 news.allresearch.com ? 247 247 1.43 MB 04 Nov…
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For those of you dreaming of a White Christmas, you could have one every year if the Blue states seceded and joined Canada. In exchange, they get Maui Canada, Disney Canada, and a whole lot more hockey teams. They’re not sure about the football teams, since there’d be some compromise involved. Click the image for the full story. Hey, it could work. UPDATE: The folks over at Salon. com have posted some tips on emigrating, but that seems a bit extreme. At least our Canadian friends (and more than a few Australian ones as well) have been supportive (ooh la…
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I don’t happen to think our leaders’ ideal republic has a lot of room for overeducated lefty feminist childfree gay-friendly non-religious Spanish-speaking ex-Jewish librarians, either. I’m with you, Dorothea – right up to the Spanish-speaking part, and I’m quite friendly with the final two constituencies, too. And I’m definitely in the “It’s a womb, not a clown car” club. I saw a Discovery/Health show on the Duggars brood the other night – the combination of fundamentalism with fecundity gave me the heebie geebies just before the election, so it was just great timing. Oddly enough, I have some rooibos tea…
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BBC NEWS | Technology | US duo in first spam conviction Now that's GOOD news. Amazingly, they made a fortune estimated at $24m selling useless crap to stupid people. All AOLers, alas (I still retain my AOL account for old times' sake, but I read it behind 3 anti-spam filters and a firewall).
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I know that all 2 of you have been complaining about the comments being slow or funky. So my husband David did some tinkering under the hood, and it should improve performance. Theoretically. If you were to bother to say anything. Heh.