Except for, he's not actually kidding, alas... . Full story...
Really, I don't know why people keep saying the -word- is out of fashion and needs preservation; it seems to me the -word- is about as endangered as, well, the Traditional Nukular Family and Merry Christmas.
How is it that it is invariably the most backward, least evolved people--mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally--who are the most fervent advocates of some form of Social Darwinism?
They look at the world, they see a fallen creation that's nasty, brutish and short (not unlike themselves), and they decide that the best way forward--o, for the good of the -species-, mind you--is to get
(Hey, baby, wanna plow my huge tracts of land?--shit, I don't know...)
In which the Pope is unclear on multiple concepts:
Since faith in the Creator is an essential part of the Christian Credo, the Church cannot and should not confine itself to passing on the message of salvation alone.
Someone, man or woman, I don't care, give me something to delight in, about my fellow critters. Something nice.
People For The American Way has a petition going around.
Interesting anecdote at Bilerico wrt how good Warren is at embracing his gay neighbor, with Christian charity, you know.
So, in the light of the Rick Warren business, here is what I am thinking:
We need a non-partisan group that puts us first, never mind "party unity" or anyone or anything else.
Look at this fresh pile of steaming shit:
The Bush administration today issued a sweeping new regulation that protects a broad range of health-care workers -- from doctors to janitors -- who refuse to participate in providing services that they believe violate their personal, moral or religious beliefs.
Yeah, I get that it's a symbolic sop, but as gestures go it's pretty fucking shitty. Did you really have to pick this guy?
The congressional committee putting together the inauguration earlier this afternoon announced that the program for President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural would include an invocation by Rick Warren, the celebrity preacher at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
In a fitting salute to the end of Dubya's reign of error, an Iraqi journalist flings shoes at his head.
80 years ago or so:
Ms. Blee, 48, first became interested in hate groups nearly 20 years ago, when she discovered a Klan pamphlet from the 1920's advocating women's suffrage.
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