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Gonna have to remember that one

From Joe McNalley’s Blog:

Visited the Apple store on 5th, and shot a pretty typical up looking view of the spiral staircase there. Liked the graphics of it, until of course an Apple employee stepped up and told me I couldn’t shoot up at the stairs cause somebody might be wearing a skirt. Now in Manhattan [...]

It boggles the mind (mine anyway)

A couple of weeks ago at church my pastor said something that really resonated with me. He said, “The most important thing in the world is God’s glory.” Isn’t that true? So no matter what I’m doing I need to be 100% that I am bringing glory to God because that’s why he made me!”

Stumbled [...]

American Express are bastards

Saturday evening I got a phone call. It’s from an 866 number so I let it go to voice mail. Well, it’s AmEx saying they’ve made an important change to my account and I needed to call them back right away.
Curious, I log into my account to find that my available credit had gone [...]

From “The Onion”

If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So

. . . It’s a simple matter of logic, really. God made me who I am, and who I am is a cold, anti-gay zealot. Thus, I abhor gay people because God made me [...]

Not A Good Year For My Youngest

Earlier this year, my youngest daughter lost a good friend to leukemia.
Last night the bus she was riding in, on her way home from a marching band competition, crashed when the driver “passed out.” I put that in quotes, because those are my daughter’s words. I haven’t heard any official news as to what [...]

Concise if somewhat inaccessible

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender… identity is performatively constituted by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results.

No idea where this comes from. Found it on a boy blog I follow. I suspect it’s not original to the author of the blog. I see sentences constructed like this [...]