Apparently Holgers is throwing a red tie party this Sunday.  I think it's Sunday.  Yep.  Those of you who know what I'm talking about should attend.

I've been looking at the world...more carefully?  Closely?  I've been paying more attention lately.  It pays off.  Fantastic!

Still not really digging this "stuck in Madison" thing though.

And I've set up my new tattoo design: St. James cross with,  "Tout est grâce."  "Deus lo vult," written underneath it.  Should be awesome.  I've got the money; now ( Read more... )

"Daddy, why do men cheat?"

"Women."

Still dragging from the heavy drinking last night.  Gotta head to work in a half hour; as you might imagine, I'm really looking forward to it.  Then I get to work again tomorrow during the day.  Hurrah for football jackasses.  Tomorrow night I'm hiding unless someone can convince me of a damned good reason not to.  Then Sunday I'm meeting some dude ( Read more... )

This was triggered by something over on Bob's blog-o.  Rant time...

I'm sick of being told that political discourse needs must be "calm" and "civil".  It is a particularly modern, and American, assumption that the only way one should be allowed to express one's political views is to write a businesslike letter, or cower in line at a town hall ( Read more... )

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Another cartoon row has erupted...

And again, I feel the need to remind those who think that we Westerners should curtail our freedoms because their religion says so that they can fuck right the hell off.  Don't like the way we do things?  Don't move to our countries.  Certainly don't move to them thinking we're going to change for you.  Fleming ( Read more... )

Luciano Pavarotti died today.  *cries in corner*

Friedrich Schleiermacher - On Religion: Speeches to its Cultural Despisers
Soren Kierkegaard - Training in Christianity
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
J. M. Robinson - The Beginnings of Dialectical Theology
Georges Bernanos - Under Satan's Sun
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Letters and Papers from Prison
Karl Jaspers and ( Read more... )