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 have d20 dice the size of testicles!"
*strange look*
"What?"
"You have testicles the size of dice?"
"..."
"Oh. I misread that."

Someday I will return to posting substantive updates. Until then, content yourselves with the verbal highlights of my days.

At the RSPCA, little cupcakes mewling in cages, a toffee apple sleeping in an old basket, bowls of custard jiggling mournfully as people walk by, a couple taking an excited trifle to a new home…

(Why yes, it is absurdism week. Didn’t you get the giraffe?) - The Amazing Kim in comments at Hoyden About Town

"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... )

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I just discovered Amanda Palmer today. This is not my favoritest video of hers - I much prefer Another Year or Leeds United for the videos themselves - but I love that song so hard I can't even describe. For those of you not already following my Twitter stream, I highly recommend you check out the website for her debut album, from which these ( Read more... )

For those of you who would like to dive further into the stream o' crazy, I'm now on Twitter, under the name of WitchWords. If you want to follow me on Twitter, you'll need to sign up, but it's free and you can tell them not to text you with updates if you don't want that ( 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... )