Overcame my fear of needles enough to get my blood drawn today and then got to hear notacat's heartbeat for the first time. Pretty cool.

Will sent me this yesterday:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/27/jonathan-krohn-13-year-ol_n_170642.html

It is about a 13 year old conservative pundit who wrote a book and spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

I listened. What the kid said could be summarized as this:

Conservativism is based on four categories of values:

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Inventory of 2008 New Year's Resolutions:

SUCCESS: Go out to eat (including fast food and ordering in) no more than once a week

SUCCESS: Apply for at least 6 grants (NOTE: all rejected)

SUCCESS: Apply to at least 6 residencies (NOTE: got one - Artcroft in Kentucky in September)

FAIL: Spend at least 6 hours a week in the studio (NOTE: I am so lame ( Read more... )

For some reason I'm not feeling my usual level of disgust with the holiday season, nor am I feeling my normal level of gooshy sentimentality about it. Either my past feelings have been made more intense in my memory or I'm just going numb and bored ( Read more... )

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

~Charles Sumner

I haven't been writing because I was out of town and have soooo much work to do on the computer that when I'm not working I get away from the computer.

I need to read more.

The latest Happy Human is out.

Thank Sagan.

PhillyCOR is putting up a secular holiday display, and we're still working out the details.

PhillyCOR is hosting a big HumanLight/ ( Read more... )

Fox News started reporting on the nontheistic billboards which are going up in Colorado early. In order to have an image of the billboard, they used the one from Philly, which has the www.phillycor.org website on it ( Read more... )

Boy am I late with this next post. I'm so lazy. Lazy lazy lazy. Ironic considering the topic of this post. *smirk*

A Graph of the Heart

I finally did it - I added a new post to Humanist Mom: The Universality of Blue Skies and War.

It is now nearly midnight and I have to get up tomorrow for an early meeting. I hope you're happy.

So I lost the essay contest. But it's cool, because the Humanist Network News just posted the essay by the first of three winners, and he has a nifty blog that I now know about (I can't believe how many secular parenting blogs are out there now - it's awesome!) and can link to my blog.

You know, the blog I've neglected for the past 10 days. I was ( Read more... )