• Hot Off The Presses

    Our Preziduhnt’s Day Yesterday

    Our Preziduhnt is very busy. He leads the Free World. He is very smart. He reads books. He likes to read them to little children. He likes to ride bikes. Ride, ride, ride Mr. Preziduhnt! No one will bother him during your nice bike ride. They know how busy and smart and fit to lead the Free World he is. They won’t bother you during naptime, either Red Alert! Where’s the Captain?

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Air Force Academy Chaplain Challenges Proselyters

    Colorado Springs is a very, very, very religious place, and the Air Force Academy is a little too cozy with the leadership of Focus on the Family, the Navigators (knew one in college… very scary) and the Officer’s Christian Fellowship. The academy had that little rape problem a while back, and now apparently they have a little religious intolerance problem, too. When a recent tolerance program was shown to a ranking officer, he responded “Why is it that the Christians never win?” A study conducted by the Yale Divinity School (another hotbed of mainline, non-evangelical, non-fundamentalist theological error) noted the…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    I Want My M-class Planet TV

    my husband David gripes about the coming series finale of Enterprise. I’ll be very sorry to see the end of this series, not only because it’ll be the first time in years that there is no Star Trek-universe series in production. I’ve really enjoyed the current season, even after wandering away in boredom after the previous one. And the last few episodes have actually been enjoyably kick-ass. The TWOP recapper Keckler thought the episode was a simplistic snooze worthy of a D and fake fangirly hyperbole, I disagreed only because they had the presence of mind to cast Peter Weller…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    So Very Happy

    …with the outcome of the finale of the seventh season of Amazing Race. Even though they didn’t actually “race around the world” and the teams had timetables going into the final legs (ugh, that sickens me, a purist). And I really couldn’t be happier for Uchenna and Joyce, coming in first and making that big vein pop out in the side of Rob’s head. And I really couldn’t be happier for Rob and Amber coming in second, although I could make an exception if they’d come in third instead. And I really couldn’t be any more “meh” for Ron and…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Amazing Race Charity Auction

    Dammit, I want a piece of the totem pole from the finale of TAR3, where Gerard had to spin animal faces to work out the correct order that animals had been special guest stars that season (that was a season with humorous donkeys, camels, and so forth): Amazing Race Charity Auction on eBay The 2 hour finale is tonight. There’ve been spoilers circulating forever that indicate that one of my least favorite teams evah win it all; if this happens it won’t cause the psychic wounds that Flo’s win did, but I’ll be all pissed off and resentful going into…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA) - Politics, Schmolitics

    How Not To Welcome, and other thoughts

    Lately at Holy Moly, we’ve been kicking around the idea of how to welcome people. Do we do it well, or do we do it badly (and risk a snarky write-up in The Ship Of Fools “Mystery Worshipper” annals)? This is something we’ll have to work out in the coming weeks. With that in mind, I was pretty horrified but unfortunately not all that surprised to run across this: WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – The minister of a Haywood County Baptist church is telling members of his congregation that if they’re Democrats, they either need to find another place of worship or…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Claudia Black: Making Michael Shanks’ Life A Misery

    Former Farscape star Claudia Black told SCI FI Wire that her character in the upcoming ninth season of Stargate SG-1 will bedevil Michael Shanks’ Daniel Jackson for the season’s first six episodes. Oh, good. David and I really, really enjoyed their interaction in last season’s “Prometheus Unbound” and we’re looking forward to Claudia’s new ones. Can’t wait to see Vala alternately beat up and jump all over Dr. Daniel Jackson. He needs a little shaking up, we think. Best quote of that episode, by the way, has become a family joke. “[significant pause]…ow?”

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Ta Ta, Pip Pip, Cheerio, Team Fogeyhat

    I’m so confused. I have so many questions, and answers are unlikely (until at least next week, when the finale of TAR7 airs). Why did Meredith and Gretchen always pick the harder physical task? Why is TAR7 going backwards? They usually go west to east Why England? That’s too easy this late in the game. Why the hell do Rob and Amber always win prizes? Has Ron figured out his only chance at freedom is “Flee. Now.”? The mini-recap is up at TWOP: In a significant change from previous seasons, the Race course turns back to the West and heads…

  • Childfreedom

    Can I Get A Childfree “Amen?”

    What I chose to do with my life and my body is my business, as long as I’m not infringing on other people’s rights and privileges or expecting them to pay for my choices. Maybe the real question to be asked is not “Why am I CF” but “Why are you so worried that I am?” Chances are I know this website’s author from the old days – it’s a nice WordPress site, too. I got there via one of the blogs at the *beep* blog listing of the local newspaper The Daily Herald.