This is just… sad. Eleven or so years ago, I was still living in Seattle – it was a somewhat lonely existence, as pretty much my life revolved around a few favorite television shows, my cat Studebaker, and occasionally going out with friends to hear live music. As it happened, there were several shows that I was more or less obsessed with, number one being Highlander, which started in 1992 and usually aired on Saturday nights. In the fall of 1994, a new show was about to premiere, and I decided to buy a VCR so I could tape the…
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Friday, the SciFi Channel started showing the “new” Doctor Who, with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor – two episodes, back to back. First, the one that establishes his new identity and starts off with a fresh Companion or two, and the next one was sort of a “Restaurant At The End Of The Universe” riff. David and I both watched the first one, set in present-day London, laughed delightedly at some of the bits that were meant to be funny, and also laughed at some of the things that were meant to be “cool.” It’s a pretty good entry in…
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Apparently I need to get Riley a Day-Runner so he can keep up with his exhausting Daily Schedule. It’s a hell of a thing when your cat has a busier social life than you do.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | US evangelicals warn Republicans Prominent leaders from the Christian right have warned Republicans they must do more to advance conservative values ahead of the US mid-term elections. I want to know why prominent progressive Christians and secular, non-religious political progressives aren’t contacting their Congresspersons to warn them they “must do better” in the struggle for the separation of church and state in this country. The story claims that about one-quarter of Americans self-identify as evangelical Christians. Of that number, how many are actually progressives, rather than conservatives? The way they run things in Washington, you’d…