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SPOILER ALERT: Ray crossed the line!
It appears I crossed some invisible line of propriety last night. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the American showing of Downton Abbey Season 3 since last Spring. As with many series from the UK, it...
View ArticleFamily
This word keeps coming up. And I have a lot to say about it, since I suspect I have a different perspective from many people, which creates a problem in communication because even though we use the...
View ArticleCan I do it?
Okay, I have begun a rather spontaneous Facebook blackout for 24 hours. No Facebook, except for Knitivity purposes over on that side of the wall. So I may end up chattering in here about various...
View ArticleConservative Hypocrisy at its finest?
Apparently some of the gun-lovers are whining about invasion of privacy with the proposed new regulations. 10 Things Conservatives Support That Are MORE Invasive Than Background Checks For Gun...
View ArticleA Friday of random thoughts
(some prompted from stuff on the Internet, and some from contemplating life elsewhere.) “If a pregnancy resulting from rape is just God giving a new life, then a death resulting from a home invasion is...
View ArticleWhere did he come from??
I fed the boys before dark last night and didn’t open the door again after that. It was about 5:00p.m., I guess. Got to bed around 11:00 and woke about 5:30 this morning. I turned on the computer...
View ArticleMy First Hotel Room
The first hotel room I paid for on my own was at the St. Francis Hotel, a transient hotel upstairs from some other business on Tremont St. in downtown Denver. The room cost me $3 or $4 for the night,...
View Article“I thought you weren’t hungry.”
Long, long ago, I read a story. I don’t recall all the details, but the story as I recall goes something like this: A couple cowboys (one older, the other several years younger) traveling the old...
View ArticleThose dang Special Interest groups and their damned agendas
I make a point each morning to catch up on news. It is part of what I do to stay informed of things that shape the world I have to live in. Two areas of concern for me are: “Separation of Church and...
View ArticleWhat “Rights of Christians”??
Unbelievable! Apparently Janet Mefferd has this crazy idea that Christians have an constitutionally protected right to not see gay people! “Whether the homosexual activists like it or not, and I know...
View ArticleIntolerant?
Recently I was at a White House meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and had the opportunity to remind him that our main problem in America is that we have taken God out of our society and out of our...
View Article“Responsibility”, you say?
So the judge in this case ruled against Hall. Good! A lesbian was given an anti-gay religious tract by her supervisor, which was followed by an email from the supervisor that attempted to justify...
View Articleyeah, yeah… I’m still here!
It’s been a while since my last post, and I apologize. My head has been elsewhere, putting out fires, raging at assorted political asshole-itude, and generally trying to survive. I’ll try to be more...
View ArticleWeird commercial?
Okay, so you’ve probably seen this commercial: What kind of irresponsible parents pay the babysitter at the door before going inside to see if their child is even alive?
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yup, it’s the GOP
Copied from Ole Olson on Google+ Huge list of citations on why the Republicans are to blame for the shutdown. Conservative Republicans are determined to sell the myth that nothing in the government...
View ArticleAtheist Grace During Thanksgiving Dinner?
Hemant Mehta has an interest video at blog: What Should an Atheist Do If Asked to Say Grace During Thanksgiving Dinner?. First off, Grace at the Thanksgiving table is a common custom, even among...
View ArticleHow to Share the Gospel With an Atheist
I just read an amusing article: How to Share the Gospel With an Atheist. - What an amazingly ill-informed bit of garbage! 1. Don’t be shocked, and do ask tons of questions. Some atheists like to...
View ArticleSo the week before Christmas…
and things are not comfortable. So what else is new. I know I’ve been lax about blogging and fully writing out my thoughts when I read shitty news bits — too easy to click a link and post quick...
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Get On A Plane, ‘Leave The Country’
In a sermon last Sunday, Texas Pastor John Hagee Tells Atheists To Get On A Plane, ‘Leave The Country’. Texas megachurch pastor John Hagee advised atheists and humanists to “take your Walkman and stuff...
View ArticleNo, abortion is not murder
One of the greatest fallacies of the so-call “pro-life” crowd is the idea that “abortion is murder, because life begins at conception.” No, life does not “begin” at conception. Life happens all...
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