Pardon me while my eyes roll to the back of my head. Email forwarded today…
The month before Christmas!
Twas the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a […]

From the NYT: World Leaders Release Plan for Resolving East/West Rift
Mr. Annan said in a written statement: “The problem is not the Koran or the Torah or the Bible. Indeed, I have often said that the problem is never the faith, it is the faithful and how they behave toward each other.”
Also from NYT: For […]

Spotted today: vanity license plate “SMPLIFY”
On a BMW X5. Whaaaa? Um, okay.
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driving along a country-ish road in Arizona
Mike: Oh! That burns me up Did you see that church?
Me: No. What did it say?
Mike: “No Jesus. No Peace. Know Jesus. Know Peace.”
Me: (mildly confused) Right, and?
Mike: It’s an ultimatum, a threat. […]

Ahhhhhhhh!
I watched Project Runway tonight, convinced from the beginning that Uli would be out. Instead, she pulled out a beautiful dress that still looked very “her” without being a repeat of what she’s done again…and again…and again. (Though, I’d die to wear her couture dress — it was gorgeous!)
(spoilers below)

Finally, at the end, […]

Yet another reason nursing should be encouraged*:
Weight Benefit Seen Even if Mothers Are Obese or Have Diabetes
Sept. 26, 2006 — Breastfed babies are less likely to grow into overweight children than those fed formula, even if their mothers are obese or have diabetes, research confirms.
Exclusively breastfed babies had roughly a 34% reduced risk of being […]

First: News
Nope, not mine this time — I literally mean “the news.” Jim Wallis (Sojourners) and Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) will be on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric this evening to discus the “Moral Direction of our Country.” I’m recording it, and if there’s anything worth talking (or ranting) about, […]

I recently wrote a post, Our nation is falling apart. As commenter Stevo has pointed out, there’s very little factual truth in the email I received as a forward (what, am I supposed to be surprised, or something?) and grumbled about in this space.
I still agree with my assessment of (and agreement with) the […]

I haven’t yet explored the local public radio stations (but doubt I’ll ever find one I love as much as KRCC), but I found a decent commercial station while driving yesterday. When I’m north of Monument Hill in Colorado (ie, out of El Paso County), I listen to KBCO, a Clear Channel station out […]

As if *that* is a newsflash?
I received this as an interesting forward (as opposed to the annoying variety) from a girlfriend:
Subject: Civilizations - VERY INTERESTING
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall […]

courtesy Sojourners (via email):
“I love my church, and I’m a Catholic who was raised by intellectuals who were very devout. I was raised to believe that you could question the church and still be a Catholic. What is worthy of satire is the misuse of religion for destructive or political gains. That’s totally different from […]

Amanda posted about an article in Details magazine — an article in which (according to Amanda) some curvier actresses both past and present were called “fat.” I read Amanda’s post earlier and found myself (without having even clicked through to the details article) just certain that I’d find the article an atrocity.
Not so, not […]

This freakin’ cracks me up:

This? Not so much. It’s not because of the text. Honestly, I think I might have found it wryly amusing to wear while I was pregnant…IF IT WEREN’T SO GRAMMATICALLY WRONG.

“Whose my daddy?” Whose? UGH. C’mon people. If you’re going to sell something via […]

Shouldn’t someone inform Jim thatblack just isn’t his color?
I just received (and deleted, heh) an email from Sojourners, urging me to sign up for their Politics and Spirituality conference — with this image attached.
You see, if I go to Pasadena in September, I’m cool like Jim Wallis, Anne Lammot, and whoever that other […]

This one’s from Larc:

Your Geek Profile:

Academic Geekiness: Highest
Music Geekiness: Highest
Internet Geekiness: High
Geekiness in Love: Moderate
Movie Geekiness: Low
Fashion Geekiness: None
Gamer Geekiness: None
General Geekiness: None
SciFi Geekiness: None

How Geeky Are You?
“Geekiness in Love” could have been higher, if I’d been willing to select “consider a good IM conversation a first date.” While a good IM conversation is […]

At the Happy Feminist, worth reading: On Being Created in God’s Own Image
Beautiful. I need to remind myself of this often, in both my dealings with myself and with others.