Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.
Thanks to NinjaNun for the link.

Via Feministe, I came across this.
Edutopia asked its readers: What five things would you do to save public education?

Raise teacher salaries.
Reduce class size.
Decrease standardized testing.
Increase parental involvement.
Educate the legislators about the schools.

Read the detailed answers here.
Those five points could make for an entire series of posts. The first two are a given…teacher salaries are […]

Several site I frequent have reported a deluge of comment spam within the past couple weeks. Until today, I thought the only recourse was for them to turn off the “anonymous” option. I learned from Orac’s site today that this isn’t the case.
Blogger now has a word-recognition feature that blog owners can switch […]

Here’s the background: a gal joined a playdate group I participate in from time to time, and we discovered that we live relatively close to each other. Granted, I’m in a teeny-tiny condo, and she’s up on the hill behind Garden of the Gods in a neighborhood that is VERY high end. […]

Brandon wrote about Ingrid’s insistance that Donald Miller and Anne Lammot are clearly not truly Christian — because they curse.
Good fucking God. (Is that enough for a start?)
Caveat: I have not read Ingrid’s site. Probably won’t, since I’m just not in the mood to get THAT pissed off.
The one that bothers me the […]

The top 10 “most conservative cities” in the U.S. according to the Bay Area Center for Voting Research:

Provo, Utah
Lubbock, Texas
Abilene, Texas
Hialeah, Florida
Plano, Texas

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Gilbert, Arizona
Bakersfield, California
Lafayette, Louisiana
Orange, California

No big surprises there, LOL. See the rest of the list here.

This isn’t a post bemoaning the Religious Right’s careful control of what may be said/not said on a local radio station (although I learned a bit about the “Kingdom Watchers” from a local TV personality who works out at my gym and recently guest-hosted on a local Christian station).
This isn’t about the politically-correct left and […]

They are drawn as if by magnetic forces; they speak of Colorado Springs, home to the greatest concentration of fundamentalist Christian activist groups in American history, both as a last stand and as a kind of utopia in the making.
This is how an article called Soldiers for Christ (part 1) begins in Harpers. For […]

Before I had my daughter, I was pleased to learn that I could feed her wherever I deemed appropriate (or necessary) — that my ability to provide nourishment for my child was protected by state law. Effective April 23, 2004, Colorado protected a woman’s right to breastfeed anywhere she has the right to be. […]

Since I’m feeling a bit dry, here’s a little something that Layla pointed out recently that I think is worth a read. If more Christians took this perspective, the world would change.
Coming from a perspective of pure love, everything we do, say, act… changes. If “sin” is what we do that harms ourselves, or […]

I’m on a bit of an unplanned blogging break — life’s just kept me busy enough that commenting on others’ sites has been more fulfilling than writing my own spiel.
In the meantime, I found this in the comments on NinjaNun’s site. It’s so wrong. But so funny.

Courtesy of Swami Uptown:
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa

As I said, the public records exist for a reason, and my intuition served me well:
Technically I’m not yet divorced. I guess I put “divorced” on my profile because “separated” sounded to me like we’re just having fun, and that there’s a chance that we get back together. Plus I thought it would […]

Okay, I recorded Grey’s Anatomy tonight, and started watching it after it was done (nicer that way, so I can fwd through the commercials…god I love tivo). Anyway, 20 minutes before the show’s end, the world had to know that Peter Jennings passed away from lung cancer. The entire rest of the show […]