Reuters: Kansas church liable in Marine funeral protest

BALTIMORE (Reuters) – A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral.
Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s death was God’s punishment [...]

Though I don’t ever claim to be a family friendly blog, I’ll let you decide if you want to read the details of the latest Republican sexcapade. I’ll bet Craig is breathing a sigh of relief. The media will almost certainly shift focus from his “boring” adventures in a MN airport bathroom to this loon [...]

Sounds like Relief Society President Julie Beck has given a talk that has stirred the pot a bit. I don’t have time to find the talk and read it. I’ve only read some of the posts responding to the talk. Apparently Mormon women aren’t happy because their homes aren’t clean. If their homes were kept [...]

One of my assignments for my practice class is to keep a journal of things that come up for me during the semester. I haven’t been very good about it and I’m trying to catch up.
In my policy class, we have been discussing Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. From the opening letter:

On April [...]

This semester my practice class is focusing on issues related to children and adolescents. We’ve spent a little time talking about sexuality and gender. It is interesting to me that we as a society are slowly getting to a place where the sex of the person you sleep with is less an issue, but woe [...]

It would be really interesting to see if all these elaborate protection schemes software manufacturers implement actually help reduce piracy. Generally as soon as someone releases a “new and improved” protection scheme, there is a hack/crack published on the internet within 24 hours, 72 if it’s really tough to crack. Thus, anyone determined to piracy [...]

A pretty good roast of Senator Craig.
Compared to some of the other shenanigans going on in Congress of late, Craig is, as my dad put it, “small potatoes.” No pun intended. (Actually, he probably did. Dad’s wit is dryer than the Sahara.)
Nevertheless, the man is an idiot. His closet is damn near pathological. There’s a [...]