Here's a review of the series in the Boston Globe. It definitely contains spoilers, and I'm not sure I agree with the final punchline about exactly what Dust is, but it's worth reading. It focuses on just what about the series mainstream Christianity finds so subversive, and why, in fact, those things are actually pro-religion. Of course, ( Read more... )

Peru celebrates tasty guinea pigs


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If your home or your accountant's office was damaged by flooding, you now have a big whopping extra 2 days to file your taxes. Woot.

So when Romney changes his mind, he's "older and wiser", but when democrats do they're flip-floppers? Makes total sense to me.

1994: "I have my own beliefs, and those beliefs are very dear to me. One of them is that I do not impose my beliefs on other people."
2007: "I was wrong on some issues back then."

I don't really get what the big issue is about breastfeeding in public. Yes, it makes me feel uncomfortable when I see a woman doing it. However, that's MY problem, not the mother's, not the baby's, so I avert my eyes. It's not doing anyone harm, and it's helping the baby and mother. Stupid people ( Read more... )