Stuff about me.
Honeybun went to the doctor today and he confirmed she needs surgery on her broken arm. Damn.
This will be the third surgery in three years for her. It is scheduled for Friday. I’d normally try to make a light-hearted comment here, but this just sucks.
I just found out the Money magazine rates technical writing as #13 on their list of 50 best jobs in America. The pay is good and flexibility is high. Looks like I might have picked a good career to study.
And if this career doesn’t work out, maybe I can become a college professor – #2 on the list. Hmmm. If only I had some Native American ancestry to give me hiring preference. Then again, some people just make that up.
OSU-Mansfield is investigating referrence librarian Scott Savage for sexual harrassment. The reason? He suggesting the book “The Marketing of Evil” for the freshman reading list. His accusers call the book homophobic and claim they now feel “threatened” on the campus because he suggested the book.
This is a case of the thought police on the loose. They don’t like the way Mr. Savage thinks so they have falsely accused him of sexual harrassment.
I did a quick search and discovered the book is not even available through the university library.
But is available through OSU-M’s online bookstore.
So wouldn’t that indicate that the bookstore employees are more “threatening” than Mr. Savage?
Anyway, once again it is liberals who show they are the ones who stifle freedom of speach. There are none so intolerant as the “tolerant”.
Yesterday Honeybun broke her arm when she was playing tennis. Ouch.
It hurts too much to go out so our Easter dinner was takeout from Outback Steakhouse. Her sirloin was tasty, but the ribs I had were the best.
Honeybun isn’t doing much besides laying down and popping Vicodin like they are Tic Tacs. I did get to go to mass today when she was in a drugged stupor. Now I’m just helping her around the house and messing around with my blog theme (as you may have noticed).
At least she can eat chocolate again since lent is over. There’s always a silver lining, right?
Honeybun and I have been remodeling the house. We are in the eighth month of a three month project.
Today we are getting a new door and security screen. Well, maybe a security screen. There seems to be a question about whether or not it will fit.
Amy Welborn has linked to an article about the United Church of Christ’s new TV commercials. The UCC press release describes the commercials:
The 30-second commercial begins with a shot of an African-American mother trying to calm a crying baby. Sitting in a church pew, the mother fidgets anxiously, as she endures disapproving looks from fellow worshippers. Eventually, someone in the wings pushes an “ejector� button to rid the church of her — and her noisy baby. Into the air they go flying.
In similar fashion, a gay couple, an Arab-American, a person using a walker, among others, get “ejected.� Finally, when a homeless person wanders in and takes a seat, nervous parishioners — expecting she’ll get the boot for sure — scoot away from her.
The commercial ends with a mood shift, where shots of diverse, friendly people set the stage for the announcer’s invitation: “The United Church of Christ — no matter who you are, or where you are on life’s journey, you’re welcome here.�
Now I’m not commenting on other churchs, but if you’ve ever been in a catholic church, you know people don’t get thrown out for having a crying baby. I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a mass that didn’t have a crying baby in it.
In my experience, churches (evangelical or catholic) are not biggotted like the UCC would want you to think. So why does the UCC want you to think all other churches are like that? Because they are loosing member’s and affiliated churches at an incredible rate. According to Biblical Witness Fellowship, a group within the UCC that is trying to reform the church, the UCC currently loses 27,500 members every year because of their liberal beliefs.
When churches start teaching that abortion is acceptable and homosexuality is morally equivalent to traditional marriage, people stop going. Conservative believers want to be encouraged to have higher standards. They go to church so they can improve themselves; they don’t get that message at a liberal church. People with liberal beliefs don’t need to go to those churches because they have no need to improve; they are already living up to (or down to) the ideals being preached.
So the UCC is in the awkward position of being approving all choices but dying because of it.
April 5 is the birthday of Booker T Washington.
If you’ve never read his autobiography Up From Slavery, you should start today.
The San Francisco board of governors has passed a resolution criticizing catholic beliefs. The board demands the former Archbishop of San Francisco who now serves at the Vatican to withraw the directive that “Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households.”
In addition the board claims that the church’s position is “an insult to all San Franciscans” apparently even those San Franciscans who support the church’s position.
The resolution concludes by saying, “Archbishop Neiderauer and the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to defy all discriminatory directives of Cardinal Levada.”
Clearly this is an unconstitutional attack on the catholic church. No government is allowed to use its power to prevent the free exercise of religion. The city government does not have the right to demand the catholic church to change its beliefs or practices.
The resolution is non-binding. Is there any doubt that if the city did have the ability to make the resolution binding that it would?
(hat tip: Roman Catholic Blog)
Reuters Headline:High caffeine levels found in energy drinks
Energy drinks that promise to boost performance and rev up metabolism can contain three to four times as much caffeine as a typical soda, a new study shows.
As Honeybun said, “well duh, they just figured this out?”
I just can’t beleive they wasted money on a study for this.
Hugh Hewitt interviewed Time correspondant Michael Ware about Ware’s reporting in Iraq. What most interested me in the interview is that Ware is incapable of making any judgements about events unless he has personally witnessed them. And even then, he can’t make judgements because he wasn’t there to see the alternative.
Are Iraqis better off now than under Saddam? Ware doesn’t know because he wasn’t there under Saddam. So Hugh then asked if Russians were better off under Stalin or Krushev. Ware again couldn’t answer because he wasn’t there.
Why is he even a reporter? His facts are useless. He can report but, following to his logic, we can’t make any judgements based on the information he provides. Yet people are making judgements on the information coming from Iraq. Quagmire! Another Vietnam!
The press is useless when reporters have no sense of history. Are Iraqis better off now? I’m reminded of a comment I heard about our search for WMD. Of course we couldn’t find any WMD. Everywhere we dug, we found a mass grave.
Update: Welcome Hugh Hewitt readers. And please vote for my entry “The Thinker” (entry #82) on Painting the Map Red contest. I really want the radio.