We’ve probably all noticed the “Left Behind” books at the book store. Their stark covers draw the eye and actually briefly held my interest until my boyfriend at the time, whose family is very Southern Baptist, explained to me what the Rapture is.
I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that those left behind because they [...]

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We’ve all heard it: “Less is more.” Sometimes. Most of this time, though, “Less” is just boring, and is often inclined to intellectual snobbery. A more accurate statement comes from one of my favorite movies ever, “Sabrina” (the new one. I have yet to see the original): “More isn’t always better, Linus. Sometimes [...]

I’m sure you’ve all heard of William Jefferson by now. A Congressman from Louisiana, he’s been caught red handed by the FBI accepting bribes. This whole story just blows my mind. He is [allegedly] caught on video tape accepting a briefcase containing $100,000 in cash—Can anyone think of a legitimate reason to be handed a [...]

Over at Secret Simon, I found a link to the South Central Farmers, a group of folk trying to save their 14 acres of garden plots the city has decided to sell out from under them. It sounds like the only way they will be able to save their garden plots is to buy the [...]

According to the new theory, chimps and humans shared a common apelike ancestor much more recently than was thought. Furthermore, when the two emerging species split from each other, it was not a clean break. Some members of the two groups seem to have interbred about 1.2 million years after they first diverged — before [...]

Last week a shareholder of Ford Motor Co., one Robert Hurley of Alton, Ill, introduced a resolution that would strike protections for GLBT employees from company policy and prohibit Ford from contributing to GLBT organizations. Fearing the resolution would hurt Ford’s ability to hire talent and negatively impact sales Ford tried to keep the resolution [...]

According to WorldNetDaily, 37% of respondents hope that Bush’s speech tonight will provide for “Immediate construction plans for an impenetrable barrier on the border.”
People, there is no such thing as an impenetrable barrier. Walls are not made to keep people out. They’re made to slow them down long enough so you can shoot them or, [...]

Howard Dean is coming under fire from GLBT groups for recent sucking up to Evangelicals.

Gay rights groups reacted angrily Wednesday to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean’s televised comments to an audience of evangelicals that his party’s platform defines marriage as between one man and one woman.1

Whence the shock? I just don’t get it. He [...]

A little while ago my friend Tony passed away. A long time atheist, he didn’t believe in an afterlife. “If there is an afterlife,” he would say to me, “I’m coming back to haunt you.”
I’ve been on medication that leaves my joints aching and my muscles stiff and weak. The doctor recently halved my dosage [...]

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Gilad Benari, an Israeli photographer, recently gave me permission to display some of his work in my blog. He does so much nice work it’s hard to pick one image to start with. I settled on this one.
This image resonates with a lot of people. The most immediate response is, “That poor [...]