God on Gays

Well, there we have the final word,
and that should be the end of that.

Now, how does God feel about plutocrats?
Are they really doing His work
or not? Hmmm...

God on Gays

Well, there we have the final word,
and that should be the end of that.

Now, how does God feel about plutocrats?
Are they really doing His work
or not? Hmmm...

Palin and the Arizona Shooting

Sarah Palin is getting e-hit hard
on the Arizona shooting,

but she is probably too simple-minded
to be truly culpable.

LJ

.......

I join one of our discussions.

Jeff makes a clever comparison between
the censorship of entertainment and
the uproar of liberals over the right-wing's
use of gun-language in their politics.

I agree with free speech naturally,
but argue that our leaders should hold themeselves
to a higher standard.

No minds were changed.

LJ

......

A little something from Sully.

Palin and the Arizona Shooting

Sarah Palin is getting e-hit hard
on the Arizona shooting,

but she is probably too simple-minded
to be truly culpable.

LJ

.......

I join one of our discussions.

Jeff makes a clever comparison between
the censorship of entertainment and
the uproar of liberals over the right-wing's
use of gun-language in their politics.

I agree with free speech naturally,
but argue that our leaders should hold themeselves
to a higher standard.

No minds were changed.

LJ

......

A little something from Sully.

Ah, the 70s and Charlie's Angels

It looks like Charlie's Angels will be given another go.

It is a great concept.

But it needs more male sexism to really fly
as well as to be free of network strictures

but fighting crime in itty-bitty bikinis is good.



ONTD

Ah, the 70s and Charlie's Angels

It looks like Charlie's Angels will be given another go.

It is a great concept.

But it needs more male sexism to really fly
as well as to be free of network strictures

but fighting crime in itty-bitty bikinis is good.



ONTD

Chinese Teen-Girl Chess Champion

Nicholas Kristof gives us another piece on China's future domination:

If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan.

Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women’s world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world championship. And she reflects the way China — by investing heavily in education and human capital, particularly in young women — is increasingly having an outsize impact on every aspect of the world.

Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.”

Maybe it's best that I'm getting on in years, because I am not learning Mandarin.

Though, rereading that, I just noticed that she is the women's world champion. At first, I thought it was for both men and women. That's not to say I'd care to play her, but the news is a little less sparkly. Maybe world domination is still some decades away.

Chinese Teen-Girl Chess Champion

Nicholas Kristof gives us another piece on China's future domination:

If there’s a human face on Rising China, it belongs not to some Politburo chief, not to an Internet tycoon, but to a quiet, mild-mannered teenage girl named Hou Yifan.

Ms. Hou (whose name is pronounced Ho Ee-fahn) is an astonishing phenomenon: at 16, she is the new women’s world chess champion, the youngest person, male or female, ever to win a world championship. And she reflects the way China — by investing heavily in education and human capital, particularly in young women — is increasingly having an outsize impact on every aspect of the world.

Napoleon is famously said to have declared, “When China wakes, it will shake the world.”

Maybe it's best that I'm getting on in years, because I am not learning Mandarin.

Though, rereading that, I just noticed that she is the women's world champion. At first, I thought it was for both men and women. That's not to say I'd care to play her, but the news is a little less sparkly. Maybe world domination is still some decades away.

Poor Cowboys

Father is watching a football game in the kitchen,
and I ask when the Cowboys will play.

He says it's the playoffs, and
the Cowboys are off on their rebuilding year.

Poor Cowboys

Father is watching a football game in the kitchen,
and I ask when the Cowboys will play.

He says it's the playoffs, and
the Cowboys are off on their rebuilding year.

The Pope and the Big Bang

The Pope has weighed into the age-old debate between religion and science over the universe's origins, telling worshipers gathered at St. Peter's Basilica that God was behind the Big Bang.

In a sermon marking the Epiphany, the day when Bible says three kings gathered at the site where Jesus was born by following a star, Pope Benedict XVI said "the universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe."

"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said.

-- LJ/News

I wouldn't have thought this news, as I supposed that only among American fundamentalist circles is one so bold as to pit science as a tool of Satan. The Church is smart enough to know when to co-opt long-established science, though sometimes, as in the case of Galileo, that can be a really long time, but if we cannot expect conservatism from the Church than from where? One just doesn't want them making our laws.

The Pope and the Big Bang

The Pope has weighed into the age-old debate between religion and science over the universe's origins, telling worshipers gathered at St. Peter's Basilica that God was behind the Big Bang.

In a sermon marking the Epiphany, the day when Bible says three kings gathered at the site where Jesus was born by following a star, Pope Benedict XVI said "the universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe."

"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said.

-- LJ/News

I wouldn't have thought this news, as I supposed that only among American fundamentalist circles is one so bold as to pit science as a tool of Satan. The Church is smart enough to know when to co-opt long-established science, though sometimes, as in the case of Galileo, that can be a really long time, but if we cannot expect conservatism from the Church than from where? One just doesn't want them making our laws.

Cats and Weather

The sun came out strong in the early afternoon,
and since it wasn't toooo muddy,
I let the cats out a little while ago,

and I see Sammy already pawing around with a dead bird.

*shrugs*
That's what cats do, right?

On the other hand, another thing cats do,
is die young,
such that even nine lives is not really enough.

It's not that I feel especially sympathetic
toward the bird;
I only worry a little about the cat getting ill,
espcially since I don't think we have any vet money.

.......

I'm debating whether to keep them in tonight...

Although the temp is expected to drop
into the high thirties,
I may leave them outside,
because over the next few nights
the temp is expected to drop into a true freeze,
so that I will feel obliged to keep them in
if it is at all possible.

So, why not let them have what freedom
that Nature and our conscience can afford them,
especially after all of Sammy's crying this morning.

.......

As I watch them chase each other across that patio,
I have to be reminded that they are just so young,
but the problem is still
to see them lead nice aged lives.

Cats and Weather

The sun came out strong in the early afternoon,
and since it wasn't toooo muddy,
I let the cats out a little while ago,

and I see Sammy already pawing around with a dead bird.

*shrugs*
That's what cats do, right?

On the other hand, another thing cats do,
is die young,
such that even nine lives is not really enough.

It's not that I feel especially sympathetic
toward the bird;
I only worry a little about the cat getting ill,
espcially since I don't think we have any vet money.

.......

I'm debating whether to keep them in tonight...

Although the temp is expected to drop
into the high thirties,
I may leave them outside,
because over the next few nights
the temp is expected to drop into a true freeze,
so that I will feel obliged to keep them in
if it is at all possible.

So, why not let them have what freedom
that Nature and our conscience can afford them,
especially after all of Sammy's crying this morning.

.......

As I watch them chase each other across that patio,
I have to be reminded that they are just so young,
but the problem is still
to see them lead nice aged lives.

Really Good Shit!

I credit my conversion to Christianity to a couple of experiences I had with LSD in my early 20s. During those experiences, I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me, and felt the salvific grace of Jesus Christ flowing through me, and it was the most beautiful feeling I've ever had.

-- Daily Dish reader

Sully continues his thread on the spiritualistic powers of psychedelic drugs. As I've told Poovanna, I am not untempted by the idea of going for a cosmic spiritual experience, but my sanity is so dubious that I dare not risk destroying it once and for all time. Literature and porn with have to continue to be my drugs of choice, and they perhaps have done a good enough job of ruining me, destroying whatever taste for reality I might have been born with.

Really Good Shit!

I credit my conversion to Christianity to a couple of experiences I had with LSD in my early 20s. During those experiences, I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me, and felt the salvific grace of Jesus Christ flowing through me, and it was the most beautiful feeling I've ever had.

-- Daily Dish reader

Sully continues his thread on the spiritualistic powers of psychedelic drugs. As I've told Poovanna, I am not untempted by the idea of going for a cosmic spiritual experience, but my sanity is so dubious that I dare not risk destroying it once and for all time. Literature and porn with have to continue to be my drugs of choice, and they perhaps have done a good enough job of ruining me, destroying whatever taste for reality I might have been born with.

Administrative Note

I have started experimenting with another blogging strategy. For a while now, I have been using this blog, for the most part, as a sort of final draft, and I have gone elsewhere for a tweety blog, which shall remain unnamed and unlinked. That website, however, went down for a while, and I decided to play with the idea of using this journal for my all-purpose blog, and I kind of like it, for now.

However, in the interest of not flooding your Friends Pages, I will try to keep from sending out more than three posts per day by using the “date out of order” option. If, on the other hand, you absolutely desire to see more Monk in your life, you can click to my journal and see more of the stuff that has caught my interest during the day.

I’ll probably continue to squirrel away elsewhere reports on my bowel movements and such, so you need not worry about that. No porn either, sorry! Now, if you cannot get enough of people talking about their cats, or if you like to read observations on the weather, then you definitely might want to click over. What can I say, time seems to pass more favorably for me when I post about it.

Administrative Note

I have started experimenting with another blogging strategy. For a while now, I have been using this blog, for the most part, as a sort of final draft, and I have gone elsewhere for a tweety blog, which shall remain unnamed and unlinked. That website, however, went down for a while, and I decided to play with the idea of using this journal for my all-purpose blog, and I kind of like it, for now.

However, in the interest of not flooding your Friends Pages, I will try to keep from sending out more than three posts per day by using the “date out of order” option. If, on the other hand, you absolutely desire to see more Monk in your life, you can click to my journal and see more of the stuff that has caught my interest during the day.

I’ll probably continue to squirrel away elsewhere reports on my bowel movements and such, so you need not worry about that. No porn either, sorry! Now, if you cannot get enough of people talking about their cats, or if you like to read observations on the weather, then you definitely might want to click over. What can I say, time seems to pass more favorably for me when I post about it.