Great music (and lyrics) takes an overused, trite subject like lost love and makes it unbelievably profound ( Read more... )

Let the recovering of Christianity's soul (and image) begin. As a basic first step, we'll publicly acknowledge that torture is wrong. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2032616,00.htmlRead more... )

It has occurred to me, watching and reading comments from both sides of the political spectrum, that it is a fair question to ask whether a politician who bills himself as Christian is showing it in his actions. But I don't think it's fair to ask whether his policies are carrying out Christ's commands ( Read more... )

1. The current surge in troop levels brings us back to where we were two years ago. No more.

2. No one mentioned this on the day of the speech; I heard about it from the Daily Show.

Robert Stokes (I have no idea who he is, besides the author of this article) is leaving the Republican Party.

( You can't tell it, but the tone is resigned, not angry )

CNN had a segment tonight on the Pope's recent comments on Islam. First they show the Pope speaking at a German university, where he says "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Then they point out that the words ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been too long since I posted in this thing. Nearly four months since the last time, and that was just a random Latin phrase. I had any number of things that I thought about posting, but there kept putting it off at first because I was going to post about Sharon's wedding, and then because it had been so long I couldn't break it with a ( Read more... )

"Omnes arx vestri sunt nobis haventur" -- According to ironychan, Latin for "All your base are belong to us"

I love my car, and the people at Poughkeepsie Ford were wonderful. But the company website is an incredible pain. I have to register -- e-mail address, name, etc., etc, tell them how I found out about it (um, it was on the bottom of the bill you sent me), and click far too many times underneath text that I didn't bother to read, before I can ( Read more... )

( For those with a strict definition of profanity )