I have just returned from a long and involved trip South - first to Santa Fe to visit family, then to the Bay Area for New Year's Eve and dear friends and small adventures, then to Seattle to build family, then back to the Bay for a further adventure, this time with a stranger. It was a clean narrative, completely without disaster, and I safely ( Read more... )

Legal immunity cannot hold. The Vatican should feel the full weight of international law
Well may the pope defy "the petty gossip of dominant opinion". But the Holy See can no longer ignore international law, which now counts the widespread or systematic sexual abuse of children as a crime against humanity. The anomalous claim of the Vatican to be ( Read more... )

via Keith:

Click this, if you dare, and make well sure your sound is on:

ICCM, the official, if unbelievable, website of the International Congress of Churches & Ministers

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the Organization Anonymousvia warren.

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from the most precious Dee:

"An avatar of Hanuman is currently touring India. Apparently.

How rare."

Here's the gimmick: Take a weird, modern conservative revisionist New Testament and wrap it in faux-hip fashion-mag duds and hawk it to unsuspecting young maidens who otherwise wouldn't get within ten low-rise jean lengths of the gray-bearded dust-choked finger-wagging dogma of King James and all his hoary misogynistic machismo. Clever indeed.

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