“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I am having some difficulty grasping why it took almost 2 hours just to dye 8 skeins of yarn. In a normally good day, I can get a full steamer batch (of 8-10 skeins) in about an hour or less, normally, and usually I can get one steamer batch done in the time the previous [...]
(oops…. this was supposed to go to the Knitterman blog!)
it’s already the end of June, and I’m overwhelmed with ’stuff’ still. But never mind that.
Yesterday I changed the Dicey Knitting price and gave it a page of its own, as well as putting it in the side columns of the regular yarn pages. I expect [...]
I received a mass mailing notice from someone recently, announcing to the world that a relative had “gone to be with the Lord”.
As I wrote back to this person, I am genuinely sorry for the loss and I know the family will grieve their loved one’s passing. Even when it is expected, or even when [...]
if I hear of one more person, near or far, close or distant, either falling ill, getting laid off/made redundant, being injured, or outright dying or passing or “going to be with the Lord” I will fairly well scream. Enough is enough, awright?
No, really, I honestly DO understand that life is full of ups and [...]
Children of Gay Parents Speak Out! Interesting article, about children raised with gay parents. As a gay father of four, this is interesting to me, even though I didn’t have a partner at the same time that my kids were with me, and my kids didn’t get to spend a lot of their growing up [...]
(WARNING — a lot of personal sh*t here about family members; read at your own risk; parts of this have been written up before but it is part of the 40-years-ago story… and I’m still not writing all that could be written of that period.)
This weekend marks the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and [...]
We already know that God was created in the image of man. There is no dispute or debate about this. Specifically, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is just a fiction of a violent and nomadic people, just one of a pantheon of tribal dieities, each one invented to control a superstition and ignorant [...]
This has been commented on elsewhere, but not all y’all read all the stuff I read:
It is rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. The “ministers” are certainly not Christian, at least not in any decent sense of the word.
Homosexuality is not caused by demons. It is not a choice. It is not a sin. Why do [...]
What the fuck? (thanx for the tip, Sascha!)
No, seriously — What. The. Fuck??? Gov. Sanford goes public and admits to having an affair.
How can anybody take these right-wing “pro-family” idiots seriosly? As a party, the leadership has lost all moral authority or moral high ground here. They waste all this time and money and resources [...]
The other day on Facebook I posted a link to this article about a young couple (she a Muslim, he a Hindu) whose village elders decided this was wrong, and insisted they should annul the marriage or face death. So they killed themselves by poison rather than be dictated to by others.
This is the comment [...]
In case you are among the half-dozen or so people living under a rock, Ed McMahon died just after midnight last night (early this morning).
He was 86 years old. Mr. McMahon had been hospitalized since February, with a variety of illnesses, and finally succumbed to pneumonia. You can check the main news feeds for whatever [...]
This has been an amazing few months, with so much going on in the world, especially with the situation in Iran right now.
Then there’s the irresponsible behavior of churches and religious groups working so hard to deny civil rights and equality to an identified large group of American citizens, for no rational reason. (Don’t they [...]
Last Thursday, New York’s Gov. Paterson introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York. Bravo, that’s a good start.
Paterson made some good and valid points, as did City Council Speaker Christine Quinn:
Quinn, who is openly lesbian, dared anyone to “tell me I deserve less” than the right to marry her partner.
“Look me in [...]
Okay, so a few days ago, I saw this notification on Facebook:
well, I am not a great father. My father was not a geat father, and I have no clue how to be a great father. Or even a noticeably ‘good’ father. I would hope that my attempts to be not as bad a father [...]
And to think I actually used to LIKE Billy Graham! Besides being intellectually dishonest, he’s also quite a liar.
This is from his column, appearing in the Bradenton newspaper today, responding to a writer’s question:
Why does atheism seem to be growing so much in recent years? I guess there have always been people around who didn’t [...]
Can you imagine a television show built around a man’s over-ample maleness? And can you imagine a SERIES built around what a man might DO with such a tool?
HBO will be airing such a program, called Hung, starring Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, and Anne Heche. Thomas Jane plays a character Ray Drecker, and Anne Heche [...]
“I won’t help you … and I refuse to refer you to someone who will.”
As this is a hot-button issue for me, I’m surprised I missed it first time around, but apparently up in Nebraska some Catholics want to turn civility and professionalism on its head:
Psychologists should be able to refuse to treat — and [...]
Nobody can deny the atrocity of African-American abuse and oppression in America. But it seems like some members of the African-American community want to deny the oppression and discrimination experienced by other parts of our society, as if only they have an ugly history. Specifically, many Blacks are bothered that some of the legal arguments [...]
Interesting discussion popped up on the forums. Some knitters were discussing this and that, and someone shared a question directed to her from somewhere else: “You’re a designer yourself and yet you don’t believe in a creative God?” (I’m greatly reducing the discussion to a pithy notion here).
I’ve heard this through the years, that it [...]
Wow… The Pride Parade up in Boise this weekend will have a unusual participant.
Tom Munds, an evangelical Christian, believes that homosexuality is a sin.
Although he believes homosexuality is a sin, Caldwell conservative Tom Munds will march in Boise’s gay pride parade this weekend.
The 46-year-old activist said he aims to promote his views in a non-confrontational [...]
