Get Religion reports on the lack of reporting of huge prolife demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco...
and they report on the controversy of "Mormon underware".
considering the ridicule I endured for wearing a simple Catholic medal in college, I don't blame them for the secrecy...
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Kathleen Hale, the last of the Bloomsbury group, has died.
The obituary includes a cheerful (?) vignette of her bohemian life that could be interpreted differently: a secretary so underpaid that she sold her hair for necessities, children forced to collect firewood and churn butter (both of which are hard work), going unclothed in chilly England where there is no central heating, and an unsupervised "lord of the flies" environment for children...
The group was just an ordinary group of snobs, anti Semites, one sided"pacifists" and useful idiots who hated rules and ordinary decent folks who follow the rules
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Is the Inquisition the precursor of modern totalitarianism?
Except of course they weren't that efficient, and they were established to stop the spontaneous killing of witches by neighbors, and stop genocides by governments under the guise of religion...
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Heh: John Tyler's grandson says Newt Gingrich is a jerk.
Wikipedia on John Tyler.
Tyler...sided with the Confederate government, and won election to the Confederate House of Representatives shortly before his death.... his presidency is generally held in low esteem by historians; today he is considered an obscure president, with little presence in the American cultural memory.[1]
(What, no quotes from Hitler's American cousins?)
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Native American population is growing...
Some of this is good news, but some is an artifact, because a lot of white folks who find they had a Cherokee great grandmother think they should have preferential treatment, stealing places from those who actually suffered discrimination in the past...
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Audiobook of the day: Edward Lear's book of nonsense.
The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat" and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins "Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a small pipkin."----------------------
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