I can't help giggling at the post-elimination interview with the spellers -- "What was going through your mind as you tried to spell that last word?"

"Well, Larry, I was actually thinking 'Son of a BITCH!'"

t edit Danm, these words are really fucking hard!

I know!

But I'm happy that there were words I could get like paillon or towhee.

I've broken in the top 100 of new Natter, time for bed. No storms here yet. Wish they'd come through, it's HOT.

We didn't get our predicted storms (they all went south or north of here) but the weather still broke.

The Anti-Dominionists are fast approaching Tinfoil hat time.

I was coming here to take issue with this point, because I find the Dominionists (and the Pre-Millennialists, yes I know the difference) to be incredibly terrifying and so beyond tinfoil hat-land that little said in response to them can, IMO, be considered tinfoil-hatty.

However, I see that beth took up the issue, and that Cindy clarified, and I also know that Cindy (and other Christians around here) can sometimes feel piled upon in these discussions.

Still, I'm so thankful for any and every voice that speaks up against these movements that I get a little knee-jerky about accusations of tinfoil hattiness.

Really, I think more Christians like you, Cindy, need to speak up about this stuff, because I and others like me are automatically ruled out as any kind of valid voice on this topic. Yes, I know that many of these people would lump you in with me, just because you do not share their beliefs, but other, less conviced Christians, might just be swayed by a fellow Christian voice, where they would probably not even listen to anything I had to say.

Okay, done now. I'm sorry, Cindy. I hope you don't feel piled upon.

Clearly you need to know Hebrew, French and Persian (Farsi) to get far in this spelling bee.

Ooof. Bad Sail. No M&M for you (but you know, you were 3 or 4--a parent expects it at that age).

Not!Linking!!!

You're still going to be my lawyer, when I'm up on assault charges for popping him square in the nose (with malice aforethought) on his 25th birthday, though. Right? Right?

I must go watch The Office, and try that laughter thing the kids are talking about. Spelling bees break my heart. Can't watch that.

I know!

It's pretty amazing.

I noticed in the blog that was linked to earlier that the girl that won the Geograpy Bee had been competing in the Spelling Bee too. Has anyone actually won both?

No Sean, I don't feel piled upon at all. I am sorry I hastily worded my first response to beth, because I would actually consider myself an anti-dominionist. What's the point of religion if it's forced? What's the point of anything they're trying to accomplish? I have no clue.

But a lot of what a lot of people are reading about Dominionists is coming from people as wacky as the Dominionists. (Not ANYONE here)

Okay, that was an easy word for a Canadian.