tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43436847140214802082012-01-25T19:20:34.271-06:00Where I write about technology, culture, religion, and other things I pretend to know something about.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-48420515869464251072010-02-15T15:31:00.002-06:002010-02-15T15:36:42.512-06:00

Upon hearing the news that Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) won't be running for re-election due to the strident partisanship in the current Congress, I'm reminded of the following:"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." ---from the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler YeatsI really wish the best would stay and fight instead of throwing their hands up in

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When asked in a Washington Post interview whether an intelligent and discerning leader of the caliber of Dwight Eisenhower would be considered acceptable in today's conservative movement, Gerard Alexander, Assoc. Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, and himself a conservative, responded:Maybe the saddest thing about Eisenhower is that he's not so much banished as forgotten.

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"You can talk about Jesus all day, but if you are not doing what Jesus would have you do, then it matters not. God save us from admirers of Jesus.” ---the Rt. Rev'd. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire

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One of the chief reasons I have little respect for the so-called "traditional Anglican" movement in TEC is the hypocrisy illuminated by this quote:Reactionaries continually accuse liberals of individualism yet they are the first to cite individual liberties when the community decide to go in a direction the reactionary, personally, doesn't like. ---the Rev'd. Jonathan Hagger

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"I was regretting the past and fearing the future. Suddenly my Lord was speaking. 'My name is I AM.' He paused. I waited. He continued. 'When you live in the past with its mistakes and regrets it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I WAS. "'When you live in the future with its problems and fears, it is hard. My name is not I WILL BE. When you live in this moment it is not hard. I am here. My

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Considering both the recent senatorial election in Massachusetts and the Supreme Court campaign finance decision, the following seems apropos...No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. ---Lily Tomlin

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“I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.” ---Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816

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If you're wondering where God is during catastrophes like the earthquake in Haiti, remember this:Lord Christ, You have no body on earth but ours, no hands but ours, no feet but ours. Ours are the eyes through which Your compassion must look out on the world. Ours are the feet by which You may still go about doing good. Ours are the hands with which You bless people now. Bless our minds and bodies

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A great, Lovecraftian parody of the infamous "Chick tract," a kind of booklet which way-out-there sorts of Christians used to hand off to unsuspecting normals, can be found in the Cthulhu Tract.Bwahaha! Come on, monkey-boy! Admit you're a semi-evolved ape thing that is mercifully ignorant of the soul-blasting truths of the Cosmos! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

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There is no technology that would be harmful in the hands of an individual that can’t be made more so – on an epic scale – in the hands of an entrenched bureaucracy. ---Sarah A. Hoyt, author

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Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo posts a righteous rant on the U2 lead singer's boneheaded opinions RE: file sharing and the music biz.This is about two groups of fat cats fighting for money. First, you're rich and your pals at the music industry are rich. Second, those are rich service providers. In the middle, getting sandwiched between your throbbing shameless practices and thick hypocrisy, is the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-15302265586752625122010-01-04T10:26:00.002-06:002010-01-04T10:29:14.049-06:00

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our societies, the more

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On the occasion of the birthday of the creator of Esperanto..."I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness... It is true that the nationalism of oppressed peoples -- as a natural self-defensive reaction -- is much more excusable than the nationalism of peoples who oppress; but, if the nationalism of the strong is ignoble, the nationalism of the

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"XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it." --- quote from the Nokogiri XML parser documentation[tip o' the hat to Graham Glass]

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With all the furor from the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the recent election of a certain suffragan bishop in the Dio. of Los Angeles fresh on our minds, I couldn't help but recall a famous quotation:"I wouldn't go to Lambeth if Jesus himself was there handing out $1,000 bills. I went once before, and if assholes had wings Lambeth would be an airport!" --- the Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris,

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Ran into my first problem with Windows 7 right after the initial install. No sound. Nada. Zippo. Silencio.Turns out that Creative - the company that mfg. the soundcard - doesn't have drivers for the Sound Blaster Live! under Vista or Windows 7. Probably want you to spend money on a new soundcard instead :PBut a bit of Googling revealed the somewhat tedious workaround. Goto Creative's support

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The megachurches are mall-like villages or gated communities with Wednesday nite karaoke and movies and Sunday 'prosperity gospel'. Faith is not between you and God, it's 'your team' and flag and get out of jail free card; virtue is a concept, not practice; sacrifice is for chumps and "I'm a special case, with extenuating circumstances, but I'm still a good person cuz I say the right things about

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If you know anyone in the market for Apple's least expensive Macbook, Microcenter is running a rebate deal until 11/15/09 that gets you $200 off list price ($799 after rebate - the form is in a link to a PDF file at the bottom of the page)The rebate is a $200 Visa giftcard - usable anywhere that takes Visa, but can't be converted to cash at an ATM. I've got a slightly older version of this laptop

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-69627984500777916672009-10-30T09:42:00.001-06:002009-10-30T09:43:36.238-06:00

“I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.” ---Jesper Rønn-Jensen

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::sigh:: Yes, I should know better, but I got into an argument with an extreme right-winger over in the comment section of someone's Facebook page about the Matthew Shepard Act. It's just that the disdain positively dripped off of this woman's comments. And every comment of her's was a piece of misinformation lifted straight out of a list of Fox News / Glenn Beck talking points. How Judy Shepard

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Anglicanism: Offering personal ordinariates for disaffected Roman Catholics since 1549. ---the Rev. Jan Nunley

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I can't even begin to describe how sick and tired I am of the personal nastiness being directed at the office of the President of the U.S. Just this morning I was subjected to photos on someone's iPhone of a black, dept. store manikin, dressed up in hospital scrubs, being abused next to a sign about "Obama care." This guy thought it was the most hilarious thing he'd ever seen and couldn't wait to

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May God bless you with a restless discomfort about easy answers, half-truths and superficial relationships, so that you may seek truth boldly and love deep within your heart...It would be well worth your time to read the rest over on the Monastic Mumblings blog.

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Concerning the disparity of drug prices in the U.S. vs. other countries:Dividing up the world economy into individual markets to benefit only businesses and not consumers is a big BS sandwich. They [Big Pharma] argue for their freedom to manufacture it in Mexico but want to deny you the freedom to purchase it from Mexico through political means. I do not understand how so many Americans walk

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Original Axiom:Murphy's Law - "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."Corollarys:Murphy's Extended Law - "If a series of events can go wrong, they will do so in the worst possible sequence."Finagle's Law - "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment."Hofstadter's Law - "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."Silverman's

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Oh now this is sweet. The Adobe Flash player plugin has always been a real CPU hog on Mac OSX machines. There's no way to heat up your Macbook faster than playing a Flash movie on YouTube...Well I've discovered an OSX add-in called ClickToFlash which fixes all that:Ever wanted to get rid of the scourge of the web that is Adobe Flash, but still retain the ability to view Flash whenever you want?

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Interesting piece in the Sunday Dallas Morning News by, surprise, conservative columnist Rod Dreher:Last week, the president delivered an education speech that fell somewhat short of the standard set by Lenin in his address at the Finland Station, launching the Bolshevik Revolution. In fact, Barack Obama told America's schoolchildren to work hard, respect their teachers and take responsibility

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Words actually mean things, and despite persistent attempts by many on the right to make it so, “socialism” does not mean either “any government activity that is not a tax cut or an attempt to kill swarthy people with weapons” or “whatever it is Obama happens to be doing at the moment.” ---John ScalziThe best, as well as “squirt milk out your nose funny”, commentary on current events can usually

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Stinginess creates a hard knot deep within the soul. Beware of hardness of heart: you can suffer from it without any awareness that you do until caught in the grips of spiritual thrombosis. ---Louie Crew[thanks to JCF who, over at Mad Priest's, linked to the entry by Dr. Crew which contained this gem]

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-7624077671555287852009-09-03T11:08:00.003-06:002009-09-03T11:14:57.832-06:00

Great Googly Moogly! A status update I posted on my Facebook page is getting more comment action than anything I've ever posted here :D So I'm gonna try and leech off of it..."I believe that no one should die because they can't afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick."Discuss.

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Buy it here. [all credit to the folks at Mental Floss]

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There's been a lot of misinformation flung about RE: health care reform, but this really takes the cake:In a "poll" mailed to supporters, the RNC is actually suggesting that health insurance reform is a Democratic plot to deny health care to Republicans using voter registration data: Documents Obtained Show GOP TricksGeez Louise! And the sad thing is, there are people out there who'll believe

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If we have any hope of a rational discussion on health care reform in the U.S., we need to get past the lies and the spin being flung about with such great abandon. Here's a big one: "Socialized" medicine, a misnomer in its own right applied to current attempts at reform in the U.S., will cause health care rationing.Here's the truth - every country rations health care. Every. one. The difference

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One day an old Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson. He said, “There are two wolves fighting inside all of us – the wolf of fear and hate, and the wolf of love and peace.”The grandson listened, then looked up at his grandfather and asked, “Which one will win?”The grandfather replied, “The one we feed.”From a comment on the excellent blog The Mudflats.

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This debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people. I believe that nobody in America should be denied basic health care because he or she lacks health insurance. --- Pres. Barack ObamaFurther in his appeal to faith-based groups to spread the truth about health care reform, the President urged listeners to reject misinformation about his plans, noting, "There are some folks

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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me. --- Frederick Buechner[shamelessly stolen from the charming Stephy of Stuff Christian Culture Likes fame]

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-19366795095109349172009-07-09T17:30:00.005-06:002009-08-24T10:50:43.119-06:00

Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish compiles all the various lies of Sarah Palin in one helpful place: The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin: A Round-Up.I asked an intern to re-fact-check all of them to make sure new details hadn't emerged that might debunk some. And I also asked to get any subsequent statements by Palin that acknowledged that she had erred in any of these statements that are easily rebuttable by

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You know what my main objection is to Libertarianism ? It's that I don't trust enough people to be egalitarian and, well... just plain good in a moral sense. Given human nature, a completely free, laissez-faire system would rapidly devolve into an oligarchy of the rich."But, but...we'd protect individual freedom!" Uh, yeah...right. When your values are primarily materialistic, power concentrates

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-8644317721105762902009-05-08T07:05:00.002-06:002009-05-08T07:14:23.790-06:00

Will Dana, editor of Rolling Stone, encouraged blogger Douglas Rushkoff "to come up with one-liners that tell the truth about the economic/banking fiasco - but that do it in almost zen-koan fashion."    Debt is not a good productAnd, like I'm arguing in my book, this whole scheme [finance] was arranged by 14th Century monarchs as a way of making money by having money, rather than providing value.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-23024216810230688062009-05-07T07:28:00.004-06:002009-05-07T07:36:58.641-06:00

This may be the coolest thing I've ever seen in the realm of affordable housing - to say nothing of it being manufactured housing as well:the Clayton iHouseThere's also a good article about it on Yahoo! News and a blog devoted to it as well. And guess who thinks it's such a good idea that he bought the parent company ? Warren Buffet.I want one out in the Hill Country on the West side of Austin :)

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Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas . . .If you find 60 degrees "a little chilly," you may live in Texas.If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Texas.If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in TexasIf you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how

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I submit to you that cynics are critical to society's function. You see, cynics rarely start wars, we leave that to religion. Cynics end wars. Cynics are all around you, challenging society, the church and the powers that be. Cynics do what idealists talk about doing. --- Trevor BuvyerShamelessly stolen from the delightful Stephanie Hill Drury. Her blog Stuff Christian Culture Likes is endlessly

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We have enough youth. We need a fountain of smart. --- seen on a t-shirt at ThinkGeek

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PC Magazine has a handy guide to Google's GMail up on their site. See An Unofficial User's Guide to Gmail for a good place to get started with this popular, eternally in Beta, service.

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The Religious Right was a Christian mistake. It was a movement that sought to implement a “Christian agenda” by tying the faithful to one political option—the right-wing of the Republican Party. The politicizing of faith in such a partisan way is always a theological mistake. But the rapid decline of the Religious Right now offers us a new opportunity to re-think the role of faith in American

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Wanna know why I hate U2 ? No, it's not because I think Bono is a bit pretentious ;) No, it's not the :: shudder :: U2charist thing.It's garbage like this that really gets to me...

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On the brouhaha by some authors and publishers over copyright & ebooks in general, and Amazon's Kindle specifically:Maybe I'm right and maybe I'm wrong, but the important thing is, we don't need new theories about copyright law to test the proposition. The existing, totally non-controversial aspect of copyright law that says, "Amazon can't publish and sell my book without my permission" covers

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Nothing spices up classic art like a little Star Wars.

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Matt Taibbi has a take-no-prisoners article in Rolling Stone on Wall Street insiders and the global economic crisis:So it's time to admit it: We're fools, protagonists in a kind of gruesome comedy about the marriage of greed and stupidity. And the worst part about it is that we're still in denial — we still think this is some kind of unfortunate accident, not something that was created by the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-4571631274183427442009-03-11T09:11:00.005-06:002009-03-11T09:31:43.186-06:00

Michael Spencer predicts the the coming evangelical collapse in an article yesterday on the Christian Science Monitor website:Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-41399391948865529382009-03-10T09:40:00.004-06:002009-03-11T09:24:52.960-06:00

What with all the Kindle 2 release brouhaha, I got a real laugh out of yesterday's comic over at Penny Arcade. ;)

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-57522809369213406232009-03-06T13:54:00.003-06:002009-03-06T14:06:49.138-06:00

It's obviously been hard not to think about the greed and short-sightedness that's got us in to the current economic predicament. But something really crystallized for me while reading a quote from the graphic novel The Watchmen (the same dialog is in the movie, too -'natch).As they attempt to quell a riot, the Nightowl and the Comedian have the following short conversation in the midst of the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-27323468719769127332009-02-17T14:41:00.002-06:002009-02-17T14:47:27.909-06:00

Our new president is demonstrating that he learns quickly...very quickly:Lessons Obama learned from stimulus deal.Take your case right to the American people.Don't let bipartisanship become the barometer of your success.Face up to criticism, be pragmatic without being unprincipled.Yep, sounds like a good start to me.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-12682958074819720322009-01-22T07:49:00.002-06:002009-01-22T07:55:08.935-06:00

Conservative bloviator Rush Limbaugh has told a publication regarding Pres. Obama, “I hope he fails.” The sordid details can be found on Joe Garofoli's blog in the San Francisco Gate.Just another example of how much conservatives love America...

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-50807026450906556292009-01-21T08:52:00.004-06:002009-01-21T09:09:17.115-06:00

Yes, we did :) [and BTW, the Whitehouse website just got a lot more useful]Patrick Farley sums it up nicely in The Bush Years: All Circus, No Bread:“Trying to explain what was wrong with the Bush Era feels like trying to vomit up a cannonball. I don't think my jaw can stretch that wide.”

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-69157326998639377072009-01-16T12:07:00.002-06:002009-01-16T12:18:01.346-06:00

Kathleen Parker, one of the only halfway decent writers the Republicans had, has been cast into the outer darkness. Yes, she's lost her position at the National Review, to wander "the wilderness in rags and swaddling cloths, lamenting the loss of her soul and shaking her chains like Jacob Marley." [Wonkette]Parker was one of the only conservative writers I thought had a decent handle on one of

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-84017978739489514582009-01-07T13:44:00.002-06:002009-01-07T13:51:27.768-06:00

On the fate of the Church in the West, Counterlight writes in a comment thread over on Preludium:I think that as goes Spain these days, so goes the rest of the West (including the USA); a greatly shrunken church dominated by fanatics who accelerate shrinking church attendance by alienating the rest of the population; a church that wears a heavy millstone of rightwing and reactionary politics

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-154397416178502022009-01-07T12:53:00.003-06:002009-01-07T13:00:25.993-06:00

Eric Konigsberg of The New York Times says Care for an Absinthe? Ptooey!If absinthe were a band, it would be Interpol, third-hand piffle masquerading as transgressive pop culture. If absinthe were sneakers, it would be a pair of laceless Chuck Taylors designed by John Varvatos for Converse. If it were facial hair, it would be the soul patch...You could say that absinthe is a kindred spirit of so

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-90394896035156253412009-01-02T08:11:00.002-06:002009-01-02T08:22:55.095-06:00

Sol Short once told me that mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening and those who find it thrilling. He says the rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history. If change threatens you, you become conservative in self-defense. If change thrills you, you become liberal in self-liberation. He says the

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-35248473915844070152008-12-27T08:19:00.000-06:002008-12-27T08:20:50.011-06:00

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. ---Madeleine L'Engle[from Ellie via the Mad Priest]

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-3104240186980837712008-12-24T12:09:00.000-06:002008-12-24T12:10:49.512-06:00

I'll bet when we elect our first gay president, he doesn't invite an avowed racist to deliver the invocation. ---Scot Hacker

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-16613592777238396592008-12-23T10:21:00.002-06:002008-12-23T10:43:12.035-06:00

KeePassX is a cross-platform application that can store various bits of useful information like passwords, software license keys, account numbers, etc... in an encrypted database. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and the database it keeps is portable between these platforms.The packages for Windows and OS X look pretty straight-forward, but installing it under Ubuntu 8.04 'Hardy'

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-868628441871351722008-12-16T09:41:00.005-06:002008-12-17T09:15:27.723-06:00

The Times of London reports Internet Explorer users warned to change browser over security fears:Microsoft admitted today that a serious flaw in security has left all users of Internet Explorer, the default web browser for most people, vulnerable to attack from hackers.The loophole allows criminals to commandeer victims’ computers by tricking them into visiting tainted websites that steal

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-46324539590625084902008-12-08T11:26:00.002-06:002008-12-08T11:30:57.342-06:00

Scalzi reminds us of a key bit of netiquette in The “Bcc:” Field is Your Friend. I was reminded of this a short while ago when I received an email from a blogging friend with a CC: field chock-full of addrs for other folks - among them another blogger who hadn't chosen to share her email addr with me (not that I'd asked, it's just never come up).So make Ms. Manners proud and go read dat :)

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-1102856154538390082008-11-30T15:53:00.002-06:002008-11-30T15:56:28.323-06:00

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. ---Isaac Asimov, in The Foundation Trilogy

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-87620545825666695252008-11-26T09:39:00.002-06:002008-11-26T09:44:19.523-06:00

In an entry on boing boing about how CNN is struggling to find a way to report on the continuing financial crisis, Dale Dougherty suggests: It's like a war and we keep losing ground each day. In the place of casualties, we have falling stock indices but it's hard to show the real damage. There's only so much you can do with oversized charts to tell a story. The war on terrorism featured a real

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-2851610275212541872008-11-25T15:24:00.002-06:002008-11-25T15:31:03.164-06:00

From Thomas P.M. Barnett's blog:Here's the top five: US at 89 small arms per 100 people, Yemen at 55 (a gun-&-knife-toting culture without peer), Switzerland at 46 (who knew?), Finland at 45 (still expecting the Russians), and Serbia at 38 (just got in the habit, I guess). ---source, the Swiss 2007 Small Arms Survey, 28 Oct., 2008OK, yeah, I know - the U.S. has a unique culture. But more small

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-29581584213940158412008-11-24T16:05:00.003-06:002008-11-24T16:16:24.390-06:00

APC, the longest running computer magazine in Australia, posts a list of why Macs are still better than Windows PCs:I long ago stopped actively seeking out Mac vs PC discussions (partly because Macs are now PCs -- so the argument is more about Mac OS X vs Windows vs Linux than a proprietary Mac architecture vs an x86 PC architecture), but I still find it confounding that after all these years,

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-88820001274088687632008-11-19T15:13:00.003-06:002008-11-19T15:23:21.780-06:00

Great Googly-Moogly! there's finally a Republican willing to talk publicly about the elephant in the room:[T]he evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party. And, the truth -- as long

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-46074523134519000082008-11-13T07:57:00.003-06:002008-11-13T08:13:48.639-06:00

There's a post over on the Friends of Jake which mentions a reaction the Marriott Corp. had to the possible threat of a boycott over the Mormon Church's backing of the anti-gay Proposition 8 in the Calif. election last week (the Marriott family are Mormons). The comment thread veered off onto a discussion about a situation "that led to the artistic director of the California Musical Theatre in

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-70037967235822954412008-11-10T12:50:00.002-06:002008-11-10T13:00:30.655-06:00

The post-Bush-Rove Republican Party is in the minority because it has driven away women, the young, suburbanites, black Americans, Latino-Americans, Asian-Americans, educated Americans, gay Americans and, increasingly, working-class Americans. Who’s left? The only states where the G.O.P. increased its percentage of the presidential vote relative to the Democrats were West Virginia, Tennessee,

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-33411490320085617612008-11-05T11:13:00.001-06:002008-11-05T11:15:51.058-06:00

see LOLPolitics pictures

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Pondering the effect that yesterday's election will have on the Republican Party, I'd like to propose an hypothesis: The Democratic Party is positioned far better to become a "Centrist" party appealing to most Americans. And one big reason is just who makes up the "base" of both parties.1. While the Left has its share of extremists, these folks don't make up the Democratic base. Our base

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-16549568596422245882008-11-03T08:42:00.004-06:002008-11-03T08:56:30.853-06:00

I've been wondering when the (somewhat) thinking part of the Republican Party would start to distance themselves from the 'conservative' freak show that is their so-called 'base'. And nowhere is this gobsmackingly ignorant nonsense in fuller bloom than in rural America.Witness the essay One conservative's case for Barack Obama. Fair warning: this is a full-on screed packed with bad language and a

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-70325409697146319882008-10-31T06:59:00.002-06:002008-10-31T07:03:03.297-06:00

Jan in San Francisco shows us her sentiments exactly. Nice Photoshop job, too ;)[tip 'o the hat to the Mad Priest]

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-27885711477826453632008-10-30T08:54:00.001-06:002008-10-30T08:54:39.040-06:00

Your result for The 4-Variable IQ Test...Mathematical15% interpersonal, 20% visual, 25% verbal and 40% mathematical! Brother-from-another-mother! Like mine, your highest scoring intelligence is Mathematical. You thrive on logic, numbers, things representing numbers, and sets of things that are sets of other things, with numbers nowhere in sight. You probably like the online comic

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-81750455543934286362008-10-28T09:12:00.003-06:002008-10-28T14:42:09.943-06:00

I knew this was gonna get caught on video at some point, given the character of the Republican Party's base...Palin hears rally attendee call Obama "n-word" during speech, keeps on truckin'Anyone surprised that she didn't stop and say anything ? Well ? Anyone ?:: crickets ::

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-49120118639002502362008-10-28T08:52:00.002-06:002008-10-28T09:04:45.305-06:00

In the spirit of Grandmère Mimi's earlier post, I wanted to announce that I've voted, too. Early voting in Texas extends to the end of this week (up until four days before the general election), and the polls open at 7 AM. You don't even have to go to the normal polling place for your precinct. I voted at Christ United Methodist Church at Coit & Parker in Plano, and they made it very easy. Plenty

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-53743385946188777432008-10-24T12:21:00.003-06:002008-10-24T12:25:42.495-06:00

When I became a Christian, I was naive enough to believe that if I worked hard enough on spiritual practices and worshiped God with all my heart, all my mind, all my soul and all my strength, I would miraculously get a personality transplant and become a sweeter, nicer, and better person than ever before. That didn’t happen...I’m still ornery, angry, impatient and judgmental. God hasn’t taken

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-28573402808177062972008-10-23T08:23:00.002-06:002008-10-23T08:31:22.147-06:00

According to John McCain's chief strategist Steve Schmidt, this little, city newspaper you might have heard of (The New York Times) is "not by any standard a journalistic organization."Oh really ? I suppose that, by his standards, the New York Post and Fox News qualify ? :/See Ben Smith's blog entry Schmidt attacks the Times for details.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-70101043679618458432008-10-20T10:31:00.002-06:002008-10-20T10:34:10.314-06:00

Every time McCain spoke and Obama spoke afterward, it was like watching a polite grandson trying to find a way to disagree with his senile, formerly heroic, about-to-lose-it grandfather. ---BC Woods in the comment thread from the Final (Thank God) Debate Comment Thread over on Scalzi's blog

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-42772051011987970382008-10-13T09:06:00.001-06:002008-10-13T09:08:40.857-06:00

LOLNews & Politics on Pundit Kitchen

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-17385523561709181982008-10-13T06:55:00.002-06:002008-10-13T06:59:14.875-06:00

The fact that you oppose abortion doesn’t necessarily mean that you are pro-life. You can be anti-abortion and still be killing people by the millions through war, through poverty, and so on. ---Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria, in the National Catholic Reporter[tip o' the biretta to the Mad Priest]

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-71622644781646652062008-10-10T07:04:00.002-06:002008-10-10T07:14:05.353-06:00

The things that has always alarmed me most about the right wing Republican/conservative/FOX News-watching types is how they wear their own IGNORANCE as a badge of honor! I can't get my head around the notion of how unashamed they are of their own ignorance. It used to be that abject stupidity was something to be embarrassed about. Is it somehow now HIP these days to be a total dumbass? Did I miss

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-51779605121111167742008-10-09T07:33:00.001-06:002008-10-09T07:35:17.904-06:00

My Liberal Identity:You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com[Tip of the hat to our beloved Grandmère Mimi]

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-70423577817707135332008-10-06T11:32:00.002-06:002008-10-06T11:35:19.034-06:00

So, although I strongly believe in the maximum possible freedom, I also believe in community and in responsibility to that community. Not only is no man an island, but no man is self-made. Some people are just good at forgetting all the people who helped them get where they are. ---Charley Reese, former conservative columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, on why he's not a Libertarian.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-9812089625045350782008-10-03T09:10:00.001-06:002008-10-03T09:12:54.750-06:00

Palin’s answers do not lack confidence, they lack coherence. ---Bill Schneider, CNN Senior Political Analyst

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-47760092701223060292008-10-02T07:51:00.003-06:002008-10-02T08:01:59.437-06:00

Rolling Stone magazine presents 11 myths about Sarah Palin, along with the facts behind each, in The Truth About Sarah Palin. Here are some excerpts:1. THE MYTH: "She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!" — John McCain, at a campaign stop in WisconsinTHE FACTS: No one bought the jet online. It was eventually sold through an aircraft

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-48916370191149943342008-09-30T07:31:00.001-06:002008-09-30T07:33:21.942-06:00

Religion, uncontaminated by power, can be the source of a great deal of private solace, artistic inspiration, and moral wisdom. But when it gets its hands on the levers of political or social authority, it goes rotten very quickly indeed. The rank stench of oppression wafts from every authoritarian church, chapel, temple, mosque, or synagogue – from every place of worship where the priests have

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-6059779957563573832008-09-30T06:28:00.001-06:002008-09-30T06:30:09.714-06:00

Oh, so that's what it takes... ;->

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-21647505396266388482008-09-29T15:25:00.004-06:002008-09-29T15:29:36.934-06:00

On the failure by House Republicans to sufficiently support the bailout plan that was voted on today:There are lots and lots of reasons not to like this bill. But most of those reasons are Democratic talking points. The GOP alternative proposal was borderline illiterate.I’m writing this in haste, without a lot of reflection. But the whole way this has played out has been something of a watershed

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-70803330925480715582008-09-26T09:15:00.004-06:002008-09-26T09:36:00.149-06:00

Some quotes from around the blogosphere about Sen. McCain's decision to "suspend" his campaign (except for those anti-Obama attack ads that continue to run, and his interview with Katie Couric at the same time he was telling Letterman he was unavailable, and the speech he gave this morning at some conference in NYC, and...) and to get out of the scheduled debate this evening:To suggest that

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-61314977564895799802008-09-25T08:45:00.002-06:002008-09-25T08:48:46.058-06:00

When Al Jean, executive producer and head writer of The Simpsons was asked if Homer was for Obama or McCain, he replied:It's time for a change, so he actually is going to vote for Obama. So he goes to vote and it says one vote for McCain, he tries to hit it again and it says two votes for McCain and then he hits it three times and there are three votes for McCain. The machine starts trying to

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-60921122534800977702008-09-17T15:26:00.002-06:002008-09-18T12:08:54.659-06:00

The oil industry has a 50-year lease on the Republican Party. And they're drilling it for everything it's worth. ---Al Gore, former VP of the U.S."We're stuck with dirty, expensive energy because the oil and coal lobbies are spending hundreds of millions to block real change." See the latest ad from We Can Solve it for details.

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-69470391370527206622008-09-17T15:26:00.001-06:002008-09-17T15:29:05.752-06:00

As part of an effort to beat back the investigation into whether Governor Sarah Palin fired Alaska's public safety directory Walt Monegan because he refused to dismiss a state trooper involved in an ugly divorce with her sister, Palin's attorney filed papers on Monday claiming that Palin fired Monegan because of his "outright insubordination" regarding policy and budgetary matters. The problem

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-13193106709672435332008-09-15T12:27:00.003-06:002008-09-15T12:35:47.973-06:00

The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan points out the first Obama ad that plays hardball with the fact that McCain has lied, and continues to lie, in McCain's Dishonor. While John Scalzi addresses the issue in his usual trenchant manner with Lie to Me.Come on, folks. Obama was a Chicago pol before anything else. Did the Republicans really think he couldn't spell "hardball" ? I hope this is the start of

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-87213520096418648602008-09-15T10:41:00.004-06:002008-09-15T10:55:31.282-06:00

Bp. Lambert of the Diocese of Dallas has heard from Bp. Dena Harrison, Suffragan of the Diocese of Texas, that: - Their offices in Houston do have power. - They assume their church in Orange, TX is under water at this time, but have had no official report. - Trinity Church, Galveston has extensive damage including a hole in the Tiffany window above the altar.Bp. Lambert is still awaiting a call

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-73041107462958367152008-09-14T12:59:00.001-06:002008-09-14T13:01:44.581-06:00

The last word on that "Lipstick on a Pig" nonsense can be found in today's Sinfest comic.'Nuff said ;)

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Likewise, in the particularly contentious ranks of theologically minded Catholics, or perhaps in the polemic-weary ranks of mainline Protestantism, there are those who have surrendered the label of orthodoxy to conservatives, either because they no longer have the energy to protest or because they have concluded that the whole idea of orthodoxy — correct doctrine or right belief — is too

Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10124314924693077453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343684714021480208.post-47868054019639423312008-09-11T12:10:00.002-06:002008-09-11T12:12:11.440-06:00

In the last few days we have seen a disgusting descent into the worst sort of sleazy "Swiftboat" politics. Isn't it time for campaigns to get called on this kind of garbage ?watch on YouTube | digg story

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