Bus-loving people will have already seen the London ‘My other car is a bus — new advertising campaign — I only wish I could get one of the bumper stickers! That said: Washington’s buses could use some more practical help, especially with the capacity of the Metrorail system being stretched towards breaking. We all know [...]
If you’ve got access to a computer and ate today, you almost certainly qualify as one of the world’s richest people. This little calculator puts our wealth into perspective. Thanks to Chutney at MyIrony.com for the link. Global Rich List Share this article Hide Sites $$(‘div.d567′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
I got a very thoughtful comment this morning on my “Involuntary Simplicity” article from March. I think my commentor had a few things worth saying, so the link. A few more thoughts. I am not a vegetarian, but a lot of Universalist Christians are, and they get there from a moral direction. I just can’t [...]
I know the culture-jam-istas are sometimes derided for making pointless drama in the face of our American culture of consumption (seen also in Europe, but when it comes to consumption, who can do a better job than Americans?) and today is the main day of observance. Yes, I’m observing Buy Nothing Day (another site, for [...]
I’m investing a good part of my free time to make my life as sustainable as possible. I want to share what I find with others, and I’ll report that here. High on the list are practical helps for what looks to be the coming economic downturn and continuing cultural conflicts. Mix these with a [...]
I’ve been doing this Universalist thing for about fifteen years now, and Unitarianism before that. I’m pretty well versed on several of the major themes within Universalism — perhaps more so than most — but I’ve probably forgotten more than I’ve retained. (That’s OK: recognizing the finite capacity of human beings before the infinitude of [...]
Now that it seems that Unitarian Universalist Christians are almost free of its culture of learned defensiveness, it seems time to point out one of the key fallacies that anti-Christians use to cow us. The accusation goes something like: “Unitarian Universalists aren’t Christian, so you can’t really be a true Unitarian Universalist.” A variation is [...]
Either I missed this, or forgot about it and have re-discovered: Bonnie Hurd Smith has put Judith Murray’s catechism online. This was one of my project long, long ago. The University of Georgia has a gigantic set of early American imprints on microcard (heavens!) but had no microcard printer. This meant I was transcribing it [...]
Dear friend Katharine asks: where’s the RSS feed link? Well’ here’s one: RSS2, and I’ll add one to the rather disorderly side menu in a sec’. But here’s another plug for Firefox. On those blogs (or other sites) that have syndication, you get a tidy orange button in the corner to click. Share this article [...]
I’m a bit more optimistic than Chutney at MyIrony.com (“America’s “blue” urban archipelago“) about winning the “heartland” — if nothing else, the division might be the nation’s undoing. On the other hand, he’s got some good ideas. I’ll take him at his word and add a few, from the hustle-bustle of Logan Circle. Avoid big-box [...]
