"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I just went to iTunes and selected "Party Shuffle" (because I'm too busy and lazy to make playlists). These are the first 5 songs it played:

New Year's Day - U2 - War
Consume - Scars of Tomorrow - Demo
The Levee's Gonna Break - Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Three Times a Lady - Cloud Cult - They Live On the Sun
Break The Curse - xDisciplex A.D. - The

Governors of Illinois have a great track record ( Read more... )

I went to the Tamale Festival today. I had a traditional pork tamale; a blue corn with grilled chicken and habaneros tamale; a beef with roasted garlic tamale; a shrimp tamale; and, an apple tamale. O so good.

I now have a head ache and I don't know why.

I had my wisdom teeth taken out this morning. I haven't been myself all day. So I wrote a lot about the issues in the Presidential campaign and ended up not voting for any candidate in any race (except one seat on the school board). I did vote on the ballot initiatives.

I was just reading an article in a magazine of the 50 best albums of all time. I also have the Rolling Stone 500 best albums book. Basically I'm an expert on" top album" lists ( Read more... )

It amuses me, but it also makes me depressed. The fact that two grown, mature men and their intelligent cronies, are acting like children. What's worse is they're both vying for the most powerful position in the world ( Read more... )

Good ol' Woody Guthrie ( Read more... )

I seem to have skipped this over before. I've read Romans 1 a bunch of times, and I've heard it taught on over and over. Romans 2 is the point Paul is getting to by bringing up the sins in the first chapter. He says, "for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things." (v1) But ( Read more... )

A lot of Republicans have been deflecting the criticism of McCain's comment, "fundamentals of our economy are strong." They have been blaming the people who bought mortgages without the ability to pay. But this is not the cause of this thing. I'm not trying to make this a partisan issue though, I'm trying to find out who really is at fault ( Read more... )