“Cleanup on aisle nine; rhetorical blood on the floor.” It’s a pleasure to read this fine rebuke and wonder “What would I say if I ran into one of my senators in the Dom’s Natural Market aisle?” Sadly, I actually have things in common with at least one of my Illinois senators – I’d be able to talk to Sen. Obama about hybrid cars and maybe a bit about community organizing. Durbin would be a tougher case, but he’s gained my grudging respect since the Dems got into power – although my patience with the party leadership is slipping now…
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roll for initiative » I heart the Neti Pot has a highly graphic discussion of what happens when you use a nasal lavage to clear the goonge out of your sinuses. Disgusting as it sounds, I might actually try this. Via Joi, who’s been doing a little Neti Pot recently too.
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The Braid Blog – Two Communities Coming Together To Make… Oh, my Dog. Well, the old Holy Moly blog from holy-innocents.org has now been refurbished and pointed to the new onebreadonebody.org site. Redirected, too. The new site has a paltry “click here for more news and events” link on just the main page. Will have to inquire about having a “Blog” link added to the links template on the side as well. This was complicated; I didn’t realize David had upgraded the HI blog installation to WordPress 2.2, while this site is still at 2.1, pending a few plugins that…
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Via: Flickr Title: 05-25-07_1845.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 May ’07, 6.46pm CDT PST
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There was a swan jam on my way to work today — this pair were installed at the retention pond at the rear of our building to discourage a large flock of Canada geese from sticking around all summer, and of course they have a nesting site that their trainer built for them with bales of hay and bits of straw. A large work crew disturbed them today with a big sod-laying project, and both adult swans and their little cygnets took off for freedom. Problem was, they waddled all the way to the end of the parking lot and…
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EpiscopalOnline.org | Welcome This would make a good gift for Bob, who will probably be running the Stewardship campaign at Holy Moly. It’s “Episcopoly.” Heh.
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This continues to be the dirty little story that keeps bubbling away under the surface of the Anglican Communion in Africa. Zimbabwejournalists.com: MUGABE, THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND THE “ILLEGAL SANCTIONS The drive to sanitise the offensive regime of Robert Mugabe has sucked in the Church, with the Anglican Church being the most high profile to have openly expressed views that chime with the daily propaganda that is churned out of the government controlled media. The Pastoral Letter of its Bishops released after the Episcopal Synod in April demonstrates how pliant and subjugated the Anglican Church has become to the regime…
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 Well, there’s a familiar name: the “bad bishop of Harare” has also not received an invitation to Lambeth, along with another politically tricky bishop from the Southern Cone who is allied with the regressive, repressive wing of the Anglican Communion. Apparently “contumacy” is a form of stubborn unrepentant behavior, or contempt of rules or church canon maybe, and I expect it’s related to a word I know from Shakespeare, “contumely,” which currently means “abusive language.” “Invitations to the 2008 conference have been mailed to over 800 bishops by the Conference’s host, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams. Invitations to…
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I’ve been frustrated by my inability to post the occasional bit of flash or video using WordPress – the software is coded to be pretty strict about XHTML niceties, and the method for embedding anything involves a tedious routine: turn off the rich text editor, hand-code the embedded stuff or figure out the built-in but n00b-unfriendly custom fields, publish, and turn the rich text editor back on (which is a process in itself, as unless you’re a good WP codehax0r, you have to uncheck a little box buried in your user profile). So: here’s that weird Flash video showing how…
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Via The Lead: The Times of London reports on a recent conversation with the former archbishop: “What is sad to me is that we are investing so much time and energy in the subject of homosexuality at a time when the world is groaning from poverty, disease and corruption. God must be weeping.†Just as he opposed discrimination against people because of the colour of their skin or their gender, he said he opposes discrimination against gays. “I cannot have fought about the injustice of apartheid and keep quiet about the injustice of being being penalised for something about which…