Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Monday, July 11, 2005
Car Show Publicity: Daily Herald Time Out!
The disappointing turnout for the car show was probably due to the heat: I'm gathering mentions that made it into local papers.
Daily Herald | Search
Daily Herald | Search
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Only a few rabid Highlander fans...
will find the joke about Mustelidae funny at Get Fuzzy's recent Sunday strip. We have this thing for weasels, stoats, ermine, and polecats, so otter jokes is fair game, says I.
Monday, May 23, 2005
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Monday, May 16, 2005
Friday, May 13, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Chicago Public Radio - Re:sound 1MAY need Shoah episode
Need to go back and get episode when 1MAY Shoah recording available, especially for the story of Bozeman MT 1994, when everyone in town started displaying menorahs in their windows after a couple of incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism against Jewish homes displaying menorahs.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Top Ten Reason To Love Being Episcopalian
10. Anglican Aerobics are good for you .... sit-stand-kneel, sit-stand-kneel, sit-stand-kneel .
9. We get to drink real wine at church .... even on Sunday.
8. Not only can Episcopal women wear pants ... they can be Deacons, Priests and Bishops.
7. We "proselytize" by serving our fellow man,not by assaulting him on the street corner and telling him that he is bound for hell.
6. You don't need a life guard on duty to be baptized ... a small measuring cup will do.*
5. Our Bishops are real people ... they will sit on the ground and play "duck-duck-goose" with the kids at camp. (Diocese of Central PA)
4. We ""respect the dignity of ALL human beings" be they black, white, gay, or straight.
3. Our National Cathedral has a very cool Darth Vader gargoyle .
2. There has never been an "Episcopal Inquisition" .... God gave you a brain - we encourage you to use it .
1. Scripture ... Tradition ... and .... REASON !!!! Need I say more ?? - via Momus Operandi
*Note - this joke won't go over as well at St Nicholas, Elk Grove... they've got a baptismal pool that's about calf-deep.
Monday, April 25, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Monday, April 18, 2005
This could open up a can of worms
Lost Gospels? Ooh, the conspiracy theorists are salivating already.
Friday, April 15, 2005
BBC NEWS | Technology | Bogus blogs snare fresh victims
Okay, this is not a fake weblog. Just so you know.
Friday, April 08, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Better Nutrition: Get down: 68 natural ways to lower blood pressure
Some of this stuff, I can actually do. I need to cut out caffeine, sodas, sodium, and high-fat dairy though, and eat more fruits and vegetables.
And I need to walk or exercise.
And I need to get more sleep (melatonin!)
And I need to walk or exercise.
And I need to get more sleep (melatonin!)
BBC NEWS | Americas | Republican 'paid family $500,000'
Tom DeLay: everyone but the Republican Right knows he's corrupt.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Shere Hite and tomboys
I also had that brief, shining clarity of self as a gully-rambling, creek-wading, bug-watching tomboy.
Plus, I was an Indian, never a cowboy.
Plus, I was an Indian, never a cowboy.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Yahoo! News - "Father Ted" bookies long-shot to be new Pope
Hee! Not the Father Ted I was expecting. Must pass that along.
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: An Academic Question
Paul Krugman wonders why so few profs are social conservatives.
Could be that profs are almost universally people who think for a living. Professional thinkers thus are more likely to see the fallacies?
Could be that profs are almost universally people who think for a living. Professional thinkers thus are more likely to see the fallacies?
Monday, April 04, 2005
Friday, April 01, 2005
Suspiciously Familiar
When Keith Thomson took a job as an ad-agency copywriting trainee at the age of 22, he wasn't exactly a naif. But he didn't expect that his two male supervisors would concoct a casting call for a bogus pantyhose manufacturer and proceed to test more than the acting abilities of the fashion models who responded.
Even as Thomson's illusions about suave and polished ad executives were dashed, so was his expectation that work would be a conventional meritocracy. "There is a meritocracy, but the merits are much different than you assume: sleeping your way to the top, playing golf with the right guy or drinking yourself silly in a barroom," says Thomson, who has just published his first novel. "You're looking for people to be your idols and mentors," he adds, but "one after another you realize there aren't any perfect people at work."
that was TOTALLY a Rance story! Sent to me complements of The Bard Sinister.
Adventures of Sir SniffaLot
Huzzah! That rogue Nelson has a soft spot - and not in his head, neither. It appears we're in for a truly shaggy dog story today (of all days)
SPLICEDwire: "Down Periscope" review
Rework a "bad movie review" to show that this movie is funnier than they give credit for, and in light of terrorist attacks, actually the premise is not as flimsy as this reviewer thinks.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Governor Ahnuld Reverses Parole of Convicted Murderer/Episcopal Deacon
Other Holy Innocents churches in the news:
Bishop rips governor over parole reversal / Murderer has been ordained as an Episcopal deacon: "During his years in prison, Tramel earned a business degree and a master's degree in theology from Berkeley's Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Episcopal seminary. He worked in a number of prison programs, including church ministry, and 'has been seen as a genuinely good man,'' said Nancy Van Couvering, the psychologist who evaluated Tramel for the parole board.
Tramel's parole plan called for him to live at the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley and work fulltime at Holy Innocents Church in San Francisco's Noe Valley. He also would do other work for the diocese and the seminary. "
Bishop rips governor over parole reversal / Murderer has been ordained as an Episcopal deacon: "During his years in prison, Tramel earned a business degree and a master's degree in theology from Berkeley's Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the Episcopal seminary. He worked in a number of prison programs, including church ministry, and 'has been seen as a genuinely good man,'' said Nancy Van Couvering, the psychologist who evaluated Tramel for the parole board.
Tramel's parole plan called for him to live at the Episcopal seminary in Berkeley and work fulltime at Holy Innocents Church in San Francisco's Noe Valley. He also would do other work for the diocese and the seminary. "
Monday, March 21, 2005
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Monday, March 14, 2005
serious studies and interviews in Highlander fan culture
Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture
Highlander Reunion Convention 2001 - Cinescape wHOAH! Old, but photos of all my buddies!
Highlander Reunion Convention 2001 - Cinescape wHOAH! Old, but photos of all my buddies!
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Saturday, March 05, 2005
SRJC uproar over Republican protest
More campus hijinks from those merry pranksters, the College Republicans: Red stars on faculty office doors.
It's all to easy to compare them to the Hitler Youth, but more like the Aryan frat-boy version that provided the bad-guy funny in "Animal House" than the real thing.
It's all to easy to compare them to the Hitler Youth, but more like the Aryan frat-boy version that provided the bad-guy funny in "Animal House" than the real thing.
CNN's Woodruff corrected Novak's Dean misquote ... [Media Matters for America]
Another reminder from Air America Radio to check Media Matters more frequently. They keep catching the Rethugs in fibs, misquotes, and flat out lies.
The Nation | Article | Our Godless Constitution | Brooke Allen
It is hard to believe that George Bush has ever read the works of George Orwell, but he seems, somehow, to have grasped a few Orwellian precepts. The lesson the President has learned best--and certainly the one that has been the most useful to him--is the axiom that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. One of his Administration's current favorites is the whopper about America having been founded on Christian principles. Our nation was founded not on Christian principles but on Enlightenment ones. God only entered the picture as a very minor player, and Jesus Christ was conspicuously absent.
Our Constitution makes no mention whatever of God. The omission was too obvious to have been anything but deliberate, in spite of Alexander Hamilton's flippant responses when asked about it: According to one account, he said that the new nation was not in need of "foreign aid"; according to another, he simply said "we forgot." But as Hamilton's biographer Ron Chernow points out, Hamilton never forgot anything important.
Excellent article. Unfortunately, John Adams was right - he calls it "Superstition in Religion exciting Superstition in Polliticks."
More and more, I'm convinced that our generations are remarkably dumber than the Founding Fathers could ever have imagined.
Monday, January 24, 2005
AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: God On Their Side
AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: God On Their Side
The Religious Voice for Liberalism
"Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit. ..." The murmured words come from the first few pews of St. John's Episcopal Church, absorbed by the dark wood and vaulted ceiling. Founded in 1841, this proud redbrick church stands on the south side of St. Louis, blending with turn-of-the-century homes in varying states of decay or renovation. Last year, about 15 parishioners worshipped here regularly, and they ran the gamut, from a lesbian university professor to a male attorney grumpy about inclusive language. They shared only one passion: keeping St. John's open. And their loyalty caught the attention of the bishop, who funded a full-time priest in an urban experiment to see if St. John's can become self-sustaining again.
The new pastor, Rev. Teresa Mithen, cheerfully admits that she can't prove God exists. She is here because this is where she experiences God: in community. For traditionalists in the congregation, she leads an 8 a.m. Sunday service in the Elizabethan language of Rite I. At 10 a.m, she switches to Rite II in the Book of Common Prayer, supplementing with prayers in which God is as likely to be Mother as Father.
If someone asked where the religious voice for liberalism is – where are the clergy with theological grounds for supporting Kerry – Mithen would raise her hand. But she belongs to the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and when she stuck a campaign bumper sticker on her car, she immediately stopped parking it near the church doors. She doesn't want to tell people how to vote, any more than she wants to become a "McChurch offering a weekly Happy Meal" just to increase numbers.
"I don't care about the perpetuation of a human institution," she says bluntly. "I care about the body of Christ. If that means the Episcopal church is eventually a totally voluntary church, fine. That's how the early church was."
The Daily Northwestern - Winter shelters scarce in city
The Daily Northwestern - Winter shelters scarce in city: "Hilda's Place, like many suburban shelters, is inundated in the winter months due to the migration of homeless people from the larger Chicago shelters.
The number of people trying to get into Hilda's Place increases by 20 percent from the summer months, said Dean Miller, the shelter's coordinator and case manager.
'In the winter months, people in the city feel they will be safer and will find a spot if they move into the suburbs,' Miller said.
Hilda's Place, 1458 Chicago Ave., is Evanston's only year-round shelter for the homeless. Last year, the shelter provided 12,166 nights of shelter to 228 homeless people, according to Connections for the Homeless, a social service agency that runs the shelter.
'Unfortunately, we're one of the few shelters,' he said. 'We're almost always full and people always wanted to get in.'
Some homeless people are refused a bed due to space limitations. Bell said he typically goes to a bookstore or the library until closing time. Then, while Hughes is in the shelter, he sleeps at an outdoor 'camp.'
'The other day, my sleeping bag completely froze over,' Bell said.
Connections for the Homeless provides transitional shelter and support for homeless families through its Family Housing Services. It runs EntryPoint, a street outreach program that links the homeless with shelters and services. Other organizations provide job search assistance to the homeless.
The Hospitality Center, located in St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 1509 Ridge Ave., provides career counselors and use of a phone and fax machine. Open from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. each morning, the center also provides hygiene products.
The center is part of the Evanston Ecumenical Action Council, an organization that focuses on the hungry and the homeless. Fifty-two Evanston churches associated with the council run soup kitchens each night of the week on different days. The churches also provide warming centers from November through March, which serve an average of 40 people a day, according to Susan Murphy, the council's administrative director."
Monday, January 17, 2005
ginmar: sigh
I'll try to blog more on this on the main main blog, because it turns out I've been reading one of ginmar's commenters (trollprincess) on my Amazing Race feed.
And TP used that photo of the two older ladies getting married that I used last year. Aww!
And TP used that photo of the two older ladies getting married that I used last year. Aww!
Friday, January 14, 2005
Chicago Tribune | The Jacko follies
Chicago Tribune | The Jacko follies:
See also "Fargate Fans"
"JUDGE NOT: Sorry to bludgeon you with yet another 'Amazing Race' item, but I just have to. According to Andy Dehnart's RealityBlurred.com site, CBS sent out a letter to a disgruntled 'TAR' viewer who'd complained about the behavior of Jonathan Baker toward his wife (shoving, screaming, etc.). According to the CBS e-mail, 'neither CBS nor the producers of the program judge the behavior or offer opinions about the relationships of the participants.'
As Dehnart points out, 'expelled `Big Brother' contestants Justin Sebik and Scott Weintraub [who were dismissed from the CBS show due to physically intimidating behavior] would probably disagree.'"
See also "Fargate Fans"
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Google Search: episcopal blog
For Innocents: A Blog - we're already indexed! Also see a variety of interesting links.
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Boing Boing: Dangerous Things on your desk
Must remember to blog later: we now are the proud owners of a desktop trebuchet. There's a review of the kit I bought for David here.
Yes, yes, those flingy contraptions from Return of the King; but I first saw a modern one on a Nova special.
Yes, yes, those flingy contraptions from Return of the King; but I first saw a modern one on a Nova special.
Buy Me A Ticket On A Rocket Plane
"Initially, the cost of the flights will be too high for most people to afford. However, within 10 to 12 years, suborbital spaceflight would be a real option, Rutan said.
The best part of all, Rutan added, was that 15 years from now, 'every kid who dreams, 'Wouldn't it be cool to fly in space?' will know that in your lifetime, you are going to go to orbit. "
SpaceShipTwo teams with Virgin Airways for the next phase: commercial space travel for the quite, quite wealthy, but they envision that in a couple of decades it will be more affordable for more people.
Is it too early to make our reservations? Is there a payment plan?
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Firing disrupts Powell Haiti trip
"Mr Powell is on a one-day visit to help promote political stability. He was also due to meet young Haitians living with HIV, to mark World Aids Day"
I wonder who else in this administration has bothered/would dare to mark World Aids Day?
Meanwhile, must have been interesting when the shooting broke out.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
A Whole Features: Beyond the Blog
Ooooh. Hmm. The church website as weblog connects people with people. Oooooh.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
The Kids Are All Right
In central Ohio, voters primarily from Kenyon College in Knox County waited for more than eight hours at a polling place that had not prepared for an onslaught of newly registered voters.
"We didn't have enough machines, and we didn't strategize well enough," said Thomas F. McHugh, chairman of the Knox County Board of Elections. "We got caught up in a real bind."
Nick Papa, 18, a freshman at Kenyon, said he got in line at 4:30 and was told it might be six or seven hours, but he was still in line at 1:30 a.m. At one point, election officials offered paper ballots, but the students rebelled, saying they wanted to use the electronic machines "to make sure our votes count," Papa said.
I notice a number of comments in these stories that are the same - there are far more newly registrated voters than there are voting machines in place to accomodate them. Why?
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The New York Times > National > 3 DeLay Aides Facing Charges in Fund-Raising
Whoa! Big eye-raiser in the small print.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
"Do They Mean Evil Is Coming?"
A Romanian woman is confused and frightened by the Euro-bashing and religious iconography of a Republican presidential campaign rally.
Monday, August 23, 2004
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Friday, August 06, 2004
Bush at Unity Conference: Spreading Disunity
UPDATE: The White House has the official transcript. And it notes a detail almost too sad to include here:
We actually misnamed the war on terror, it ought to be the struggle against ideological extremists who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon to try to shake the conscience of the free world. (Laughter.)
No, that's what they do.
It's hard when you're used to speaking to pre-selected fanatics. . .
Yep, if you're not smart enough to deal with people that disagree with you, you should stick to speaking to blue-ribbon hand-picked crowds.
U.S. Troops Clash With Insurgents in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. helicopter gunships fired on militiamen loyal to
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf on Friday, the second
day of fighting there, witnesses said.
Watch for ginmar's reaction on this.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
The 2004 Perseid Meteor Shower
Try looking around 9 or 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 11th when Perseus is hanging low in the eastern sky. You won't see many meteors then, but the ones you do see could be memorable. Shooting stars that emerge from the horizon and streak horizontally through the atmosphere are called 'Earthgrazers.' Slow and colorful Earthgrazers are a good target for city dwellers, because they are so bright.
BBC NEWS | UK | Doubt over airport 'terror plot'
Either Pakistan is pissed they were out of the loop, or the British intellegence people are being tightlipped about sources. My money's on the latter.
Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly, International
See hilarious "interview" with Garrison Keillor, who was invited to appear under the pretense that his new book would be discussed.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Halliburton Neither Admits Nor Denies Wrongdoing (But Will Pay)
US oil services group Halliburton is to pay USD7.5m (GBP4.2m) to settle charges that it failed to disclose a change in its accounting practices during 1998.
Guess the line-item "bribes for African dictators and mid-level bureaucrats" wouldn't fly with the SEC as an offset for ridiculous profits?
Berger Cleared - No Film At Eleven
Because that would be admitting that the original charges were managed so as to take focus from the DNC and the 9/11 report coming out.
However, The Republicans Require A Signed Oath of Loyalty
Only loyal Republican voters/supporters/sycophants are allowed entry to BushCo events.
Otherwise, you're likely to be escorted from the building.
However, it's okay to line the streets on the way to the venue - though the local government may bill the Secret Service to reimburse themselves for providing cops and firemen on overtime to protect the city from any actions taken by evil Bushhaters.
Also, seems okay by me for both campaigns to pick up the tab for any security related alterations made at the request of the Secret Service.
But the wingnuts will crawl out of the woodwork nevertheless.
Otherwise, you're likely to be escorted from the building.
However, it's okay to line the streets on the way to the venue - though the local government may bill the Secret Service to reimburse themselves for providing cops and firemen on overtime to protect the city from any actions taken by evil Bushhaters.
Also, seems okay by me for both campaigns to pick up the tab for any security related alterations made at the request of the Secret Service.
But the wingnuts will crawl out of the woodwork nevertheless.
Teresa 1, Hecklers 0
Hecklers exercise their right to free speech at Kerry stump speeches - Teresa and the rest of the crowd handle it correctly with a combination of a zinger reply and good old-fashioned counter-chants.
Why My Supe Should Not Be Allowed To Email Memos
I swear to GOD, this is real and undoctored. I just copied everything below the address fields. And then I sent it to Scott Adams. I am SO going to hell, and when I get there, I'll be unemployed.
But in the meantime, this is too classic not to save. Usually, my TL contents herself with garbled, Germanic sounding syntax and convoluted, overly complicated explanations. The result is that often what she writes can be taken to mean the exact opposite of what she says she meant to say.
The following is a whole order of magitude better than any of her previous "WTF? is it opposite day AGAIN?" memos.
But in the meantime, this is too classic not to save. Usually, my TL contents herself with garbled, Germanic sounding syntax and convoluted, overly complicated explanations. The result is that often what she writes can be taken to mean the exact opposite of what she says she meant to say.
The following is a whole order of magitude better than any of her previous "WTF? is it opposite day AGAIN?" memos.
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Monday, August 02, 2004
Letter to Thomas Kean from Sibel Edmonds :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11
That would be one hell of a coverup scheme.
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