not on my watch

Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So, it may be asked what value is there to human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to [...]

friday queue cleaning–the jesees

It seems that over the past week, there have been a lot of Jesees in the news.  First of all, there is news that Jesee Ventura may run against Al Franken and Norm Coleman for the Senate seat in Minnesota.  Franken v Coleman should be, ummmm, entertaining, if nothing else.
But, it’s the other 2 Jesses [...]

old blog classics #2– the politics of harry potter

I have a lot I want to write about, but it’s a busy day, so instead, I give you this post from October 9, 2006.
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I feel like writing again.  Hoperfully, the feeling will stick for a while.
Anyway, I’m walking through Clifton during the early afternoon hours, and I notice a car that has the license [...]

frc–one track mind

I’ve picked on the Family Research Council a bit on this space.  Before I get back to criticizing them, I want to say that they aren’t always bad.  On many of the “alerts” that they continue to send me, I find myself nodding in agreement more often than I expected when they first started appearing [...]

frc and nambla: frc’s reply

So, I finally received a reply to my concerns that I sent to the FRC last week.  Little of it involved any clarification to my concerns.  Basically, they sent four “points.”  The first basically said this would bring us closer to “government controlled health care” (ie socialized medicine).  Secondly, this would “bring up the price [...]

frc and nambla, on the same side?

I’m not a big fan of most of the right-wing Christian political activist groups, such as Focus on the Family or Family Research Council (to be fair, I’m not so keen on some of the left-wing groups like Sojourner’s, but that’s another post alltogether).  I saw on slacktivist (see link to the right) the other [...]

another natural disaster averted

So, I remember back in the 80’s, acid rain was all the rage.  I remember learning all about it in school.  I even remember a very special “Diffr’nt Strokes” (there were a lot of those) telling us about the horrors of acid rain (Kimberly washed her hair using rain water and the acid rain turned [...]