New post up at my big-blog WitchWords. An excerpt ( Read more... )

You can teach that Christians believe Jesus died for our sins. You can’t teach that Jesus died for our sins. You also need to teach that many people don’t believe Jesus died for our sins. And you need to teach that not believing Jesus died for our sins doesn’t make you evil.

Or you could just say, “fuck it”, and teach math instead. - A commenter ( Read more... )

As time passes since the tragedy and travesty that was the passing of Prop H8 (yes, I'm going to keep calling it that), more and more fascinating tidbits come to light regarding the financing of the bill. First the LDS church "revising" its official figure donated from around $2,000 to $188,000 (a minor accounting error, I'm sure), and now this ( Read more... )

"I feel like the government's working for me. I feel like it's accountable. I feel like it's transparent. I feel that I am well informed about what government actions are being taken. I feel that this is a President and an Administration that admits when it makes mistakes and adapts itself to new information, that believes in making decisions based ( Read more... )

"This nation is headed towards a vortex of a Constitutional crisis...While on the one hand, the Obama citizenship issue is so simple a schoolchild could grasp it, if left festering and unanswered, it possesses the potential to send our nation into a time of great peril." - Bob Schultz, anti-federal-taxation activist and conspiracy theorist, on the ( Read more... )

I know the day after the election is traditional for post-election punditry. I know. But I needed an extra day to let it all sink in ( Read more... )

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So last night, after a lovely feast (Thank you, beautiful. You's good cookings.) to celebrate Mabon - which, hey, was last weekend, but w'ev. Some of us have schedules. Not me, but some of us. - Girlfriend, Boyfriend and I curled up on the couch, glasses of wine in hand, to watch the debate. (Pop quiz: How many clauses were in that sentence? ( Read more... )

I know, I know. I said once a week. But this one I just couldn't keep to myself ( Read more... )

...from your local ebil liberal:


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