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( Watch out, the hippie germs are contagious. )

It's a fantastic excuse to drink Tuborg beer and eat those crackly-with-sugar butter cookies ( Read more... )

I will be very disappointed if our otherwise budget-conscious governments decide to help (by ceding land or kicking in funds) build a giant religious structure, as Mr. Jaziri Saïd is suggesting (for the record, any cathedral still acting as a cathedral's upkeep should be the problem of the church using it). Just because all the cool mid-Eastern ( Read more... )

Something from Ideas (on Radio One) earlier this week (Thursday?) was rattling around in my head... they got Philip Yancey, who's one of the better apologist writers out there (in my experience), talking on the subject of rumours of god, and one of the things he unpacks is an anecdote of some atheist friend of his acknowledging that the conditions ( Read more... )

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Howitzer of Compassion.

Get yours.

And DO read the article!

This started off as a somewhat ranty response to someone trying to tell me that their god was the source of all good things... but I think it's central enough that it shouldn't just be cast off into the ether for one person to reject. It's probably glaringly obvious and been thought of many time before, but here it is ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend in North Carolina (or rather, 33% traveling to/from NC and 50% in NC) to attend my high school friend David’s wedding to a midwifery instructor from North Carolina (they met in Australia and are going back there... good thing they didn’t tie the knot down there, it’s out of Greyhound range...). The trip was an adventure, the ( Read more... )

Some pictures from the St. Jean Baptiste garden party chez moonlightjoy and emjayne... much pulchritude!

( get your scandalous pixels here! )

Got a toaster for the office -- well, actually replaced the home toaster and moved it here, but we’re one step closer to the perfect office. Next steps: a couch and a coat rack ( Read more... )

Realizing I’ve come back to some stuff from my early literature search with new eyes -- that I’ve come down a couple of notches on Gips’ list of shape grammar-related programs but that if I keep my nose to the grindstone I may be able to coax a working interpreter of some generality into existence and tackle some part of the subshape problem... if ( Read more... )