I also pondered... it seems that the Christian religion is more popular among women than men. Yet I wonder, if the deity had been (or had been cast as) female rather than male, would this still be so? How would the sexes respond and relate to a god of a different gender?

As I lay in the misery of a migraine yesterday, woven between the agony and the vomiting, I pondered the age-old question: why does a good, all-powerful God let us suffer so? Then it came to me, this is why God "had to" have a son. The usual answers to the question are things like "God has a plan", or "His ways are beyond our understanding", or " ( Read more... )

In 2006, "...the top 20 private equity and hedge fund managers pocketed an average of $657.5 million--22,225 times the pay of an average worker."

That is truly staggering. These twenty individuals made (on average) as much in ONE year as the average US worker could make in 22,225 years. In perspective, the first humans to inhabit North America were ( Read more... )

...when someone is just too stinkin' feckin' rich? When they will $12 million USD to their dog.

What's that up ahead, shrouded in the mists of fog and dark of night? Arrrrgghhhh!!!!

( Stuff most people will find bor-ing.... )

Turkey's military says secularism is under attack. Hmmm... by whom... I wonder.... could it be.. SATAN!?!?!

No, church lady - it's Islam. Or more precisely, those that adhere to some growing version (or perversion) of it. Seems more and more people and places are saying they are "under attack" from Islam. How far will it have to go before it is ( Read more... )

Gonzales finally calls it quits.

Prez: I'd like to torture question military captives without any judicial interference. Is that legal?

Gonzales: I will make it legal!


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Did Edwards champion cancer survival before his own family was struck and before trying to garner the Presidential votes of the aging baby-boomer population? Did he stand for this when it was right rather than when it was right for him? Is he a philanthropist or merely a self-serving politician? I suppose if some good comes of it then we just have ( Read more... )

I never imagined I had much, if anything, in common with Mother Teresa. Sometimes the truth IS stranger than fiction. Seems God has a way of "disappearing" on people. "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) comes quickly to mind. People are now coming up with all kinds of explanations about her situation. But ( Read more... )

"Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs." It would seem she never actually made it to a jail cell, only the booking process. That time, plus previous time under arrest, were counted as "time served ( Read more... )