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Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by james_nicoll at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by soldiergrrrl at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by twbasketcaseat Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelleat Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in ( Read more... ) -
Pirates of Penzance, Ronstadt and Kline - available in DVD
I greatly admire the movie version. I posted a rant some time ago that it wasn't out in DVD. It now is. I have my copy!! Rant hereby withdrawn.
They did this version on stage, and a DVD of that has been available. But the production values of that release are not good.
This one was designed as a movie and benefits greatly. (although the ending ( Read more... ) -
Children's Message
The church Carol Jean attends received a new pastor recently, one whom Carol Jean highly respects.
Today's message to the children involved two friends, who discovered they were on rival Little League teams about to meet in the playoffs. The night before, each prayed that God would help their team win. The pastor's question to the children: whose ( Read more... ) -
The Women's Crusade
part of a special NY Times Magazine issue on Saving the World's Women.
Can't think that they chose particularly helpful wording for the title. But the article is good and is currently at the top of the most-emailed list.
www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html
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uh, yes, lot of that going around
hat tip to dkogan
http://www.reallifecomics.com/ Aug 12, if you use this link later.
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Jimmy Carter on leaving the Southern Baptist Convention
Because of their God-favors-male-supremacy stance.
Hat tip to mmegaera.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/12/jimmy-carter-womens-rights-equality
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Literary Fail
These folks publish a quiz each week, different subjects. Unfortunately, the link below leads to the answers as well as the questions, so I've supplied this week's questions. I got 5 ( Read more... ) -
Another SF survey
Joyeuse13 is running another survey, this time on participants' understanding of some terms. Her post describing it is here:
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Microfiber Cleaning Cloths
Many of you know about these - this is for those who don't, yet.
You can buy, almost anywhere, cheaply in bulk, inexpensively in small packages: cleaning cloths, purportedly made of "micro-fiber".
Sounds like a marketing scam? Probably some of them are, but I haven't found those yet.
They clean very well, pick up dust and hold on to it (until you ( Read more... )