Before torture returned to the Land of the Free, my #1 issue was opposition to the death penalty, and it still weighs heavily on me.
Good news, though. Bucking the longer trend of a broadening of the death penalty in the United States and amplifying very recent, if smaller, moratorium movement, New Jersey has now banned […]
There’s “traditional” spam — you know: the kind selling body-enhancing pills or virtual companionship — and there’s “homemade” spam. This is the mail that comes to you because you have some vague connection to a product or service the mailer has. Or one of those unsolicited buckshot blasts you get from publicity people. A bit […]
Here’s a winter holiday “for the rest of the rest of us.”
Zamenhofa Tago — Zamenhof Day — is the birthday of L. L. Zamenhof (b. 1859), the founder of the international auxiliary language Esperanto. Esperantists enjoy Esperanto literature and have parties.
Can’t promise you that the party will be large — and I have no idea […]
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Apart from adding bits and pieces, my one big change in my computer use is to drop my free-standing news reader (Liferea, for Linux) and use Google Reader instead. It can handle by 180 feeds much quicker than Liferea and using Google Reader means I don’t have to manage a different news reader at home […]
Andrew Sullivan lays out the sickening details following the admission of former CIA torture advocate John Kiriakou: what torture is (again), what the threats weren’t and who knew and approved of torture. Read here and here. President Bush must be held accountable. Congress: where are you?
Part of me expects no just resolution, but Christians live […]
I found a new independent-Universalist blog recently, The Simple Light Cafe. My one regret is that the blogger writes infrequently, but writes in a meaningfully dense way that I suspect each post is worth three or four careful reviews.
The writer has a theology that James Relly would have recognized: quite a good think in my […]
Thanks to colleague Y.N.E. for reminding me that today is John Murray’s birthday (b. 1741).
It is also my mother’s birthday, which is perhaps why I forget. Happy birthday, Mom! Happy birthday, John!
Good news ye crafty types: the Kunin Group makes craft felt from Ecospun-brand fiber, made exclusively from recycled PET bottles. That’s the #1 plastic most associated with soft-drink bottles. The fiber comes from the Foss Manufacturing Company, a United States mill that has remained in business by going after niche markets. (They also make fleece […]
While I still think the Time magazine campaign is a costly mistake, I am heartened to see evidence (among the ads at PeaceBang) that the Unitarian Universalist Association is using Google ads, which would have been my first choice. That ad points to the special welcome page the UUA has set up.
So I wondered, what […]
