Posted in church geekery, leftwingers, politics, rightwingers on 8 June 2007 - 23 סיון 5767
Here’s a follow-up to an earlier post about a study released by Media Matters on how media skews religion to the right.
Over at GetReligion, tmatt shares his more recent syndicated column on the topic. He makes a couple of good points on the study itself. The left and right parties picked in the [...]
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Posted in Progressive, leftwingers, politics, rightwingers on 31 May 2007 - 15 סיון 5767
Posted in Teh Gay, leftwingers, personal, politics on 29 May 2007 - 13 סיון 5767
Family Day organizers condemn violence in Moscow rally :
In an unexpected statement, the organizers of Italy’s May 12 “Family Day” rally have expressed their solidarity with the European gay-rights demonstrators who were caught up in confrontations with police in Moscow over the weekend.
Agree or disagree with either side of the cultural issues: beating up [...]
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Posted in leftwingers, politics, teh internets on 18 May 2007 - 2 סיון 5767
The North Carolina Democrat Party has an account on flickr… a social site used for sharing photos. WTF does a political party need a photo-sharing account? To spam the rest of us.
They friended me.
I blocked them.
I’ll do the same for any other non-human that tries it, so don’t take it personal NC Democrat people. [...]
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Posted in leftwingers, orthoparadoxy, rightwingers on 17 May 2007 - 1 סיון 5767
Commenting on my earlier post, announcing the death of Jerry Falwell, Fr Ernesto said, “I will trust to God’s mercy that he sees clearly now. In fact, he now probably sees significantly better than I do. I sometimes shudder when I look forward to that day when all my pretensions and false beliefs will be [...]
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Posted in church geekery, leftwingers, rightwingers on 14 May 2007 - 27 אייר 5767
Fr Mark writes about Umberto Eco’s exploration of common elements of fascism. Mark starts out by referring to the right wing of his own church, but also includes the left.
So…given Umberto Eco’s description of Ur-Fascism, where do we find outbreaks of this tempting range of social, political, relational and spiritual actions and [...]
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Posted in jocularity, leftwingers, politics, teh internets on 13 May 2007 - 26 אייר 5767
The BBC reports that switching to biofuels could totally suck:
The report says that around nine per cent of the world’s agricultural land may be needed to replace just 10% of the world’s transport fuels.
This means the production of biofuels could lead to a decrease in land available for food production in countries where famine [...]
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Posted in leftwingers, politics, teh internets on 10 May 2007 - 23 אייר 5767
Xian meets Atheist and promptly stomps on another person’s religion. Way to go Al, you nappy headed politician. You should follow Don Imus right into the dustbin of history.
And who says Religion is the source of all the problems in the world?
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Posted in leftwingers, politics, rightwingers on 9 May 2007 - 22 אייר 5767
Once notes that suddenly there are a lot of excommunicated politicians in America. Vote for legal abortion and that’s it, says the Pope.
The Vatican spokesman added that the excommunication in these cases is applied latae sententiae– that is, automatically– and does not require any public announcement.
I really do keep waiting for them to [...]
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Posted in leftwingers, politics, rightwingers on 8 May 2007 - 21 אייר 5767
Vichy France elects its first president since Pétain in an attempt to rid France of “undesirables”.
The Commander Guy accuses the HRM The Queen of being 400 Years old - and then winks at her.
Tony Blair can’t decide if he wants a full totalitarian dictatorship now or just before he leaves office [...]
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