Dear St. Matthew’s Church, It was with great interest that I read your recent letter inviting me to use and return your “prayer rug.” As a holy man myself, I’m writing to tell you of my experience with the prayer rug. Since you referred to the rug variously as a “Holy Ghost, Bible Prayer Rug”; [...]
Someone sent me a message on Yahoo! Answers to start an argument the other day. I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I looked at the site they sent me, did some of my own research and sent back a reasonable reply, asking for the sources for some of their “facts” and questioning a [...]
I read an article on alternet.org about avoiding marriage. I write short declarative sentences. I disagreed with it. As I often do. I see this sentiment everywhere: how does one maintain individuality within a marriage? The short answer: You don’t, at least, not in so many words. But what I mean is this – at [...]
The Washington Post ran an article today about – horrors of horrors – how the recession has caused families to cut coupons, visit stores closer to home, organize their errands in the most efficient possible way and stop eating organic. Excuse me while I shed a tear or two. Families with many kids have been [...]
Check out the article here, about a group at Harvard supporting abstinence-until-marriage. This article offends me, if only because their basis for refusing sex is ill-formed. They give one quote in the article to refute the stance that pre-marital sex leads to the inability of women to bond, leads to emotional problems, etc. Then the [...]
Part 1 of a series of great presidential speeches, with untrue or deceptive statements in italics. Justifications in footnotes. Today’s speech: Address to the Nation, Cross Hall, March 17, 2003. ====================== My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision1. For more than a decade, the United States and other [...]
NOTE: The content of this entry may not be suitable for individuals under age sixteen or so, or people who get uncomfortable with sex and female reproduction. There’s no arguing that the internet is primarily a man’s world. I say there’s no arguing with it because if you visit any online forum, you’re bound to [...]
So, trawling through the server access logs, I find that one of our visitors this month happened upon our blog by typing the following into MSN Search: how to have a self abortion at 4 months This visitor’s IP address places them in a fairly small town in the middle of Nebraska, 90 miles from [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Now that I’ve succesfully calmed down from my four-hour drive home from work yesterday, I think I can reasonably discuss it. I work in Annapolis, MD. It’s a pretty city, but it’s right on the bay and surrounded by all sorts of rivers and creeks – which means, of course, loads of bridges. It flurried, [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
I’ve been trawling around on Yahoo! Answers for the last week or so, collecting what I like to call the “worst” of the questions and answers that appear on the site. For what it’s worth, I’ve also been answering questions — in an attempt to offset the negative karma I am doubtless accruing by poking [...]