Making Garfield Funny

Hah! Someone finally figured out how to make that hoary, old comic strip Garfield funny - take out the cat!

Without the eponymous main character, it becomes "a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb." ROTFLMAO!

[hat tip to Scalzi's Whatever]

QotD for 21 Feb., 2008

I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry. --- U.S. Representative John Lewis

[tip of the hat to the Mad Priest]

QotD for 13 Feb., 2008

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! --- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

The Belief-O-Matic

Yeah, it's an oldie but a goodie - Beliefnet's Belief-O-Matic, a personality quiz about your religious and spiritual beliefs.

Me ? 100% Unitarian Universalist and in the mid to upper 90's for both Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants and Liberal Quakers, plus a fair amount of Buddhism and Secular Humanism. No surprises there :)

QotD for 5 Feb., 2008

If you can't do something smart, do something right --- Shepherd Derrial Book, a character in Joss Whedon's Firefly, played by Ron Glass

QotD for 29 Jan., 2008

In honor of the (apparent) departure of the Rev. Matt Kennedy from the Episcopal Church, I offer the following...

Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect. --- Bp. Phillips Brooks, 1835-1893, noted U.S. clergyman and author, and former Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts.

How To Be Emergent

The Ooze, a website which itself is dedicated to the "emerging church movement," has posted an hilarious, tongue-in-cheek article called Walk Like an Emergent.

Go have a look. Really. If you're a Gen-X or Y, even somewhat-progressive Christian, you know some of these people :D

[tip o' the hat to Mary Sue over at the Order of Santa Ignora]