The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George. (Metropolitan, 2008 ( Read more... )

I just found Charles Krauthammer quoteable.
The God of the Founders, the God on the coinage, the God for whom Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving day is the ineffable, ecumenical, nonsectarian Providence of the American civil religion whose relation to this blessed land is without appeal to any particular testament or ritual. Every mention of God in ( Read more... )

Toys for Tots, and its promotion by the SCA, gives me the creeps ( Read more... )

The day after the Amish School shootings in Nickel Mines, an lj-friend of mine was unfortunate enough to post a link to a piece of religious-right propaganda about school shootings that's been going around for the past couple of years. (I was, to put in bluntly, rabid in denouncing that document ( Read more... )

When a Baptist preacher threatened to mount a protest march against certain topics -- astrology, tarot-card reading, but allegedly also the sessions on yoga and feng shui -- in the Pickens library summer reading program, they canceled the whole program. (The library says they had lots of emails and phone calls complaining about the programs in ( Read more... )

The Politics of Housework.
Would that this were as dated as it should be.

Gamer Guys and Gals, these are still red-hot-red-button statements, no matter who does the housework in your house:

• "We have different standards, and why should I have to work to your standards? That's unfair ( Read more... )

On the sliding scale, higher values are more important. Think of it as percentages...

Poll What's important in buying food?

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Everyone in the government, and most of the Republican party, are whining that 'this is not the time for finger-pointing' in terms of New Orleans. I agree; the level of necessary discipline to get these people to do their work is well into the grabbing-by-the-earlobe and emphasizing-lecture-with-smacks-across-the bum level of dealing with cleanup ( Read more... )

George Needham of the OCLC "It's All Good" blog has written a lovely satire as a result of Michael Gorman's "revenge of the Blog People": http://scanblog.blogspot.com/2005/02/revenge-of-codex-people.html
(Thanks to Roy Tennant for posting on Web4Lib)