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Archive for the 'Right living' Category
St. Nicholas was good
Friday, December 28th, 2007Ms. Theologian noted a story about an Oregon Washington man who put up a Santa crucifix in his yard, to protest the commercialization of Christmas. Great idea.
But rather than getting het up about Jesus getting left out, I feel for St. Nicholas, who has become a shill for shopping and saturated fat. The real […]
Glossary: subsidiarity
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007Back about a year ago when I was without a Day Job, I twice interviewed with a Catholic political lobby; there I learned the concept of subsidiarity.
I’ll recycle the current Wikipedia article’s content, since it wraps up the idea pretty well.
the principle which states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or, the […]
Ending blasphemy
Saturday, December 1st, 2007The case of Gillian Gibbons — the “Sudan teddy bear teacher” — makes me sick, but I’m a little disturbed how the law is given a pass in the editorial pages, focusing instead on Gibbons’s misunderstanding, naiveity or somesuch.
I don’t have much hope in the Sudanese legal system, it being a failed state. But perhaps […]
Some links for October 20
Saturday, October 20th, 2007Stentor Danielson picks up on two kinds of churchly homophobia and I suspect the quieter one he mentions is the more toxic. (Debitage).
Lifehacker reminds us that the five-year window “Do Not Call” registry so many of us used will be re-opening next year. You can reset the [...]
Help please: reasonable fair-trade tea
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007I am a tea drinker in a nation of coffee drinkers, and I need your help to clean up my act.
I am on the hunt for a decent supplier of loose black tea — fairly traded and preferably organic — but not stupefyingly expensive. While fair-trade coffee can be had from Equal Exchange and other […]
My only Sen. Craig post
Saturday, September 1st, 2007I won’t get into the partisan piece of the Larry Craig furor: enough has been said there for my contribution to be any use.
I am a bit worried that this will be an important frame for discussing LGBT civil rights legislation in the near-term.
I think an opportunity [...]
The ethical laptop
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Ms. Theologian (Surviving the Workday) and I will be team blogging over the next little while about getting an ethical laptop. We each have our own needs — size, operating system — and comfort points, but I think we’re agreed that it should be ethically produced. In particular — correct me if I’m misrepresenting — […]
Top five articles for May
Monday, June 4th, 2007Few surprises that these were the most read articles in May for Boy in the Bands.
“Where is Meadville Lombard going?” Like other–perhaps all–Unitarian Universalist ministers, I got an email from the Rev. Lee Barker, the president of Meadville Lombard Theological School . . . .
“Buying US-made clothing, [...]
A step closer to global peer-to-peer help
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Every day, central authorities loose a little more power. Whether their power was delegated or co-opted, we needed them to make decisions because there was no way to organize mass, non-local movements on a peer basis. Every day, technological improvements and personal attitudes lower the barrier to peer-to-peer information sharing, product production, collective action […]
