MY LIFE

Okay, so yesterday I posted the new canvas tote bags with The Will to Live on it.    Now it’s available on a T-Shirt from Spreadshirt.

I’m debating whether to leave the title on it, or leave it blank…. thoughts?

There are people dying every day.   And if you are active on any of the major social network sites (in my case, Facebook) you end up encountering people dealing up-close-and-personal with death — loved ones dying suddenly, others dwindling and lingering far too long (i.e., the length of their suffering and loss of dignity).
And there [...]

it is virtually impossible for me to add once ounce of clarity to this.   It is brilliant, rational, and applicable to everyday life.

best quote of the day:
In all of history, no word has cause more death and destruction than the word of God.
Indeed.

I am proud to be an American, but some of my fellow citizens really make it difficult.
One of our local news stations is on Facebook and posted yet another thread about the “Ground Zero Mosque” — this is the fault of idiot media continuing to call the Park 51 Islamic Community Center the “Ground Zero [...]

People continue their anti-islamic bullshit, fear-mongering and just plain stupidity.
I’m not pro-Islamic, just anti-bigotry.   In fact, I’m generally anti-religion, and ONE of the reasons for that is because the greatest function of religion seems to be hating on all the other religions, and this is no more greatly exemplified than the current hoo-haw over the [...]

It is impossible to take seriously anyone’s claim to “divine protection”.  I hear it over and over, mostly from well-meaning people, “God is in control”, “God will take care of you”, “God performed a miracle”.  They don’t intend to lie.   In fact, they usually seem to believe it quite deeply.
The reality, of course, is that [...]

I am really tired of hearing all this hoo-haw about the proposed Muslim community center just a couple blocks from Ground Zero.
I’ve been reading other people’s opinions and hearing the various news reports.
The main piece of property already belongs to that Muslim community.  It is theirs to do with as they wish.  Some of their [...]

Most of my knitting and facebook people already know, but my son-in-law was diagnosed this week with acute myelofibrosis leukemia.   It is a chronic, progressive disease, nearly always fatal eventually, although length of survival depends on far too many variables to list.  You can look it up if you like — the reports are too [...]

This is LOVELY.
A ridiculous ignorant fundagelical pastor had been picketing a nightclub every week for FOUR YEARS, for absolutely no rational reason whatsoever other than because he wants to be an asshole-for-Jesus.  These religious idiots go and stand in the right-of-way so people have a hard time going into the nightclub, interfering with the nightclub’s [...]

I cannot begin to express my joy at hearing Judge Walker has declared Prop 8 is unconstitutional!
CONCLUSION
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution [...]

Tamara Scott is the  state director for Concerned Women for America and needs a better education. In a recent speech she said being gay was as dangerous as using products that have been recalled.
This is not about hate. Let me ask you this. Recently, there was a series of cars that were recalled by [...]

Y’all have probably heard about the insanity (”bat-shit crazy” is too mild a term) brewing at Dove World Outreach Center in Florida.   Those are the idiots planning to commemorate the 9/11 attacks by having a “Burn a Koran Day”.   You’ll have to Google it — I’m not going to provide links to a Web site [...]

Almost daily I find stories of idiots trying to thwart the science education of young students.    Fortunately, here in the United States, the teaching of Creationism has been struck down repeatedly by law.   In other countries, however, religious idiots continue to push into the public schools to indoctrinate students to their own brand of foolishness.
In [...]

We’re about as far away from the Winter Holidays as you can get, so let’s throw this out into the air….
Never mind the silly “Keep Christ in Christmas” campaign.    How about “Keep Christ in Christianity”?
Most of Christianity apparently has no clue about their Christ.    Granted, he is a fictional character in borrowed myths, but even [...]

Why are people SOOOOO insanely STUPID?    And why are so many of the stupid people fundagelical and committed to deliberate dumbness?
I was trolling through Fundies Say The Darndest Things and found this gem:
Quote# 74649
[Q - If we're made in God's image, why aren't we invisible?]
A- who says he is invisible.. Maybe we just cannot see [...]

A couple days ago I posted about Jen Keeton suing Augusta State University — she was in a counseling training program and refused to give up her religious bias toward LGBTQ people.
This morning I see another student has sued another school for practically the same thing, this time it is Julea Ward who was a [...]

I was watching Hairspray again last night, the version with John Travolta, Queen Latifah, and the rest of the cast.
I was born in 1954 and grew up mostly in Southern California.  I turned 14 during a year in Denver, but mostly my consciousness of race was in Santa Barbara.   I wasn’t conscious of racism back [...]

When will Christians get it?  How many times must it be explained to them? Here is yet another story of a Christian who is entitled to her beliefs, but is not entitled to take her beliefs to work.

Jen Keeton

A lawsuit againstAugusta State University in Georgia alleges school officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling [...]

Who the fuck does Al Mohler think he is, anyway?   In ‘Evolutionary evangelist’ gives heresy bad name Mohler is pretending to rake another Christian minister over the coals and does little but display his own judgmental asshole-itude.
Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, has released a new work that critics say strays even [...]