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Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at 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 the mainstream media.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and ( Read more... ) -
Harry Potter and the Financial Inconsistency?
I can't take full credit for this train of thought. Richard raised the question.
If James and Lily Potter were killed by Voldemort when Harry was a baby... James and Lily were barely in their twenties.
Where'd they get all the money that wound up in Gringott's Bank Vault when Harry first got there?
Now... I have pretty low expectations of Rowling's ( Read more... ) -
Book Swap!
Yesterday was calloocallay's book swap! I love the book swap. Every year, there are nice people, good food, and giant piles of books, culled from the collections of people with similar reading tastes to mine. We stuff ourselves with delicious things, and stuff our bags with loads of interesting books. There are silly moments, quips about books read. There ( Read more... ) -
Saints Preserve Us
I haven't been to church in about a decade. I pray when I'm panicking, make desultory attempts at Lent, and invariably wind up eating bacon double cheeseburgers on Ash Wednesday out of sheer forgetfulness. (For the offensive religious trifecta.)
I am, however, still fascinated by the specificity of saints.( Read more... ) -
Urban Organics Week 1
Experimenting with a CSA clone. I'm trying Urban Organics ( Read more... ) -
Happy St Patrick's day
via my Dad, who is celebrating his first St. Patrick's day as an Irish citizen!
A St. Patrick's Poem
Some Guinness was spilled on the barroom floor
when the pub was shut for the night.
Out of his hole crept a wee brown mouse
and stood in the pale moonlight.
He lapped up the frothy brew from the floor,
then back on his haunches he sat.
And all night ( Read more... ) -
Help Choose Nine Women to Run the World: Meme
I think Carol Muske Dukes' latest post on Women's Voices For Change has the potential to turn into a neat meme:
If you could pick any nine women to run the world, who would they be?
Carol Muske Duke says.
What do you think? Is it time for us to start imagining a new kind of world, since this one ain't working? Is it time for us to try a different ( Read more... ) -
Happy National Belated Squirrel Appreciation Day
There's apparently a National Squirrel Appreciation Day!
Who knew? (other than illogicalvulcan, who didn't tell me! Hrmpf)
Ok, so celebrating a day late.
And marking on my calendar so as to celebrate with proper pomp next year.
I think it is an excuse to drink pumpkin-infused beer. I like excuses to drink pumpkin-infused beer. -
Disaster Response
When something stunningly, globally awful happens, like the earthquake in Haiti, prompting an outpouring of support and fundraising (last I heard, Wyclef Jean's charity had raised over a million dollars in just a few days) I start to wonder about places and funds that are being lost in the shuffle, or are being overlooked ( Read more... ) -
A Gift Guide For Poetry Fans
Remind me.... the holidays are about buying gifts for other people... not scooping up books that I want! Check out this list!
Excerpted from Women's Voices For Change.
Inspired partly by Jan Simpson's cool Christmas-for-Theatregoers list and by new Christmas poetry lists from The Independent UK and the Daily Mail, the latter a listing of new love ( Read more... )