::murmering for the hundredth time...Beverly is wise::

Bev is very wise.

It's a very tough position to be in -- I've watched my mom go through this with my grandmother forever. She's an only child, too, which makes it tough. I'm sorry, Vortex.

You know my hope is that Iris will battle Mal for the privilege of being Master Tigress, and I won't have to keep calling my son a gender-bending furry.

She's going for Dragon Warrior. (of course) So Tigress Mal can keep on keepin' on. At least for now.

Ooh! I meant to say that I am totally and completely in love with that tattoo, Raq. I've always toyed with the idea of having one, but never found a design I thought I would be happy with forever. I outgrow things, and whatever design I love today I might be bored with after awhile.

But that? That is gorgeous and beautiful and if I ever did decide to get a tattoo, I'd certainly consider something similar.

But that? That is gorgeous and beautiful and if I ever did decide to get a tattoo, I'd certainly consider something similar.

Yeah, that may be the first tatoo I've ever seen that made really want the same design on myself.

I'm still kind of entranced by the black light tattoo someone linked recently, though not in that design.

Go Shir and Sister of Shir. And if you can get the introduction of course it is better. But generally if all you want is "Can I have a copy of your paper" that can be had for the asking. James Hansen (worlds leading climate scientist, NASA bigwig) has answered questions for me - not just referred me to papers. And not cause I'm anyone special, just because the default for a lot of academics is get people information unless there is a reason why not.

OK, random question for the religiousy type Bitches out there:

So, I listen to a lot of country music, and though I was not raised all serious country-like, it was close enough that I get most all the references, even the religiousy ones. Except just recently I started hearing this song on the radio (I think it's called "Down the Road") about this guy who wants to marry a girl living down the road from him, and her mom wants to know if he's "washed in the blood or just in the water" and I'm like "WTF, there's some kind of SUPERbaptism or something??"

Can someone explain? Is this some sort of "one brand of Protestantism is not good enough for us" kind of this that I missed out on as a Catholic, or what?

and her mom wants to know if he's "washed in the blood or just in the water" and I'm like "WTF, there's some kind of SUPERbaptism or something??"

Can someone explain? Is this some sort of "one brand of Protestantism is not good enough for us" kind of this that I missed out on as a Catholic, or what?

Yeah, pretty much. Washed in the blood means salvation, born again, etc.

Huh. Google is giving me nothing on that question, meara. The best I can think of is that it's asking, "Did he just have the physical baptism, or does he really believe?" But this is just a guess from looking at the first page of google. (One of the hits is a page showing that newer translations of the bible don't have the same "washed in the blood" phrasing that the King James Version has, and thus those versions are obviously wrong. Nothing of the original language cited, just, we like this phrase, and they don't have it, so they're wrong .)