OK, I haven't felt spiritually inadequate since Mother Teresa died, but the Amish are doing me in with the "I'm not worthy" thing. We should send them on tour of the big corporate churches, but that's kind of counter-intuitive and cruel to the Amish.
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
"They were amazing," Rhoads said, "absolutely amazing. There was a tremendous amount of calm and courage in that schoolroom."
Understatement of the century. Holy crap that's something.
OK, I haven't felt spiritually inadequate since Mother Teresa died, but the Amish are doing me in with the "I'm not worthy" thing.
What Connie said.
We should send them on tour of the big corporate churches, but that's kind of counter-intuitive and cruel to the Amish.
I really shouldn't find anything about this funny, but that's funny. Sad, but funny.
DJ kitty! (video): [link]
The sound produced by the kitty messing with the turntable is either fake or off, but still damn funny....
It is nice to hear about vocally religious Christians who are actually striving to be Christ-like for a change, isn't it?
Day-for-Night, an hommage to Paco Rabanne and a celebration of the beauty of electronics, is a modular, reconfigurable dress comprised of more than 400 white circuit boards (the number changes as the dress can get longer or shorter). The circuit boards are tied together with metal rings, individually addressable and linked to a central control unit at the back of the dress. Solar cells are embedded on some of the tiles: they charge the dress during the day, and make it change colors in dimly lit surroundings.
The No-Fly List is stupid and useless, says CBS.
My life has become ridiculous. I just had to reschedule a dentist appointment I have for next Thursday, and the next time that was good for me and the dentist was in November! Granted, he's only at that office two days a week, but still.
Brenda, that's sad, but funny.
A driver has been left stunned after returning to his parked car to find yellow lines painted underneath it and a ticket on the windscreen.
So unfair!!
An interesting question: Does the Foley scandal prove the existence of a God?
The Foley scandal is so perfectly tailored -- one could even say artistically designed -- to expose every character flaw of this country's Republican leaders (and their followers), and it has evolved so flawlessly (like the most brilliantly coordinated symphony), that one is almost inclined to believe that it was divinely inspired.
...the relentless efficiency of this scandal is proof positive that Democrats had nothing to do with it
...this scandal is like the Cliffs' Notes version of a more complicated treatise on how the Bush movement operates. Every one of their corrupt attributes is vividly on display here:
The absolute refusal ever to admit error. The desperate clinging to power above all else. The efforts to cloud what are clear matters of wrongdoing with irrelevant sideshows. And the parade of dishonest and just plainly inane demonization efforts to hide and distract from their wrongdoing: hence, the pages are manipulative sex vixens; a shadowy gay cabal is to blame; the real criminals are those who exposed the conduct, not those who engaged in it; liberals created the whole scandal; George Soros funded the whole thing; a Democratic Congressman did something wrong 23 years ago; one of the pages IM'd with Foley as a "hoax", and on and on.