So, General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thinks gays are immoral. It’s nice to be counted lower than convicted criminals, as the ban on criminals being enlisted into the armed forces has been waived in some cases. But didn’t Jesus warn us about this?
Peter Pace is Italian-American, so imagine not so […]
Political intrigue! Geneva bands! Africans! Theology! Romance! Hymn singing! Prescription medicine abuse!
Hubby and I saw the new film, Amazing Grace last night. Ordinarily, he suggests a film and I agree, but the story of William Wilberforce and his anti-slavery mission so interests me that I made the suggestion this time. (I’m working on a separate […]
Looking at UUpdates.net, I see more and more references to Washington, D.C.
Is it time for a UU blogmeet?
Hubby and I were up very late last night, and right after 1:59 a.m., I looked down and saw my computer read 3:00 a.m. My Linux Fedora Core 6 had recognized the Daylight Saving Time change without me having to do a thing. I asked Hubby and his computer (running Mac OS X) had also […]
Those of us who have listen to the intra-Anglican fracas tend to see “the Nigerian problem” as the Archbishop of Nigeria Peter Akinola interfering in United States parishes, standing as a spokesman for conservative primates, and by extension challenging the Archbishop of Canterbury as the de facto leader of the Communion. But as I’ve said, […]
I’m listening to an interesting radio documentary on the BBC World Service, the current episode of “One Planet”; you can listen to it — this week anyway — here. The subject is wasted food and food waste. Seems a very high proportion of food — especially fresh fruit and vegetables — are bought and never […]
Stephen Retherford writing at Sisyphus has been musing about CreationWiki and Conservapedia, two ideologically-driven alternatives to Wikipedia. Google them if you must; I won’t honor them with a link. Irony being what it is, both use the MediaWiki software (and even the default template) that Wikipedia developed. Such ingratitude.
Alas, both projects are doomed to […]
I am not usually keen on blogs supported by media outlets, but the low volume Ethical Man blog, written by Justin Rowlatt published by the BBC Two’s Newsnight program is worth a read. He and his family (including his wife, The Ethical Woman, Bee Rowlatt) demonstrate a year without a car, a more environmentally-minded mode […]
I was glad to see that the resource Lifehacker promoted on food freezing
is from my alma mater, the University of Georgia (woof! woof! woof!)
includes resources, both web pages and PDF manuals, for non-freezing food preservation, like vegetable drying and jelly making
Why care? I think we’re going to […]
Ages ago (in blogtime) I read Andrew Sullivan because he had a certain wit I appreciated, and before that because we lived in the same Washington neighborhood. Before that I took a perverse interest in him as a gay Republican.
Now I read him because he’s the only person I know who writes consistantly and movingly […]
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