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This week on Tuesday and Wednesday we had the Supreme Court final hearings on California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage of Act (DOMA), page respectively. These are the final hearings prior to the Supreme Court’s final decision which should be given sometime near June (possibly unless they dismiss the cases due to lack […]
Continue ReadingI have aggregated 2 other “Are you still bored?” posts (original, approved part II) and the 3rd I was in the process of putting together so you do not have to look around for them and their associated links. Let me guess. You are Bored. Let boredom bother you no longer with these educational courses […]
Continue ReadingThis is the text of the Declaration of Principles as written by the character G’Kar in an episode from the science fiction series Babylon 5, a Star Trek spin-off. These are powerful words and quite applicable to a liberal theology. I think here is the actual reading from the series. The universe speaks in many […]
Continue ReadingHere is a great link talking about a nontraditional family structure where people find others to raise kids with, without romance messing things up: Life Partners Who Aren’t — And Never Will Be — Lovers (Buzz Feed) At 40, Dawn Pieke had just broken up with a live-in boyfriend who cheated on her, story but she […]
Continue ReadingI can say that I am really happy at the results for the 2012 Presidential Election. I was very worried about this election. I stayed up late into the night watching the results as they were slowly tallied. My stomach was upset when I saw that Romney had the lead like 23 to 8 electoral […]
Continue ReadingIntroduction On Thursday (Oct 4) I went to the Obama rally in Madison @ the Bascom Mall in the University of Wisconsin. Now, I will first tell you that that this is my first time going to one of these events so I had no idea what to expect. I had some ideas in my […]
Continue ReadingIf any of these links are dead, need correcting, or if you have recommendations please let me know. In Support of Esperanto More Casual BBC Radio 4 About Esperanto (MP3 – starts @ 27 min & ends @ 34:30)(on You Tube) Â (7 Aug 2010) Esperanto is worth learning and is learnable by all (video of Esperanto […]
Continue ReadingThis is sad but true. The Tea Part has no real grasp on what America really is or who our founders really are. They claim to be Christians and hide behind claims of righteousness, but violate Jesus’ words at every turn. Hypocrisy and fundamentalism at it worst. Matthew Vines speaks on the theological debate regarding […]
Continue ReadingThis is sad but true. The Tea Part has no real grasp on what America really is or who our founders really are. They claim to be Christians and hide behind claims of righteousness, but violate Jesus’ words at every turn. Hypocrisy and fundamentalism at its worst.
Continue ReadingThe most useful site I have found to learn Esperanto is Lernu.net. This is what I have been able to glean so far: There are not exceptions to any grammar rules at all. Each letter is pronounced the same each time with no exceptions – very phonetic pronunciation. Alphabet The alphabet is sounded out just […]
Continue ReadingI received an unexpected birthday present in the mail from Katia, who is a great friend of ours who is living in Belarus. She ordered a gift certificate from Barnes and Noble for me. I was really, really shocked to receive it. With this wonderful gift I bought a book that I have been wanting […]
Continue ReadingOk, I was doing some surfing on Facebook and I came upon some stuff by Dan Savage, and then I did some video surfing for him. I found a video that was talking about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal. They were discussing the issue of gay and straight people showering together and the associated […]
Continue ReadingFor all of you out there that are having a problem sleeping give Ricky Gervais’ Sesame Street Lullaby brought to you by the letter ‘N’ a try. I blame this completely on my 2 year old little girl.
Continue ReadingI am not an atheist. I label myself as an agnostic deistic humanist (see my posts under the Ministry tag for more info), but there are a lot of things about this that I agree with. I love the comment about Galileo, but I think the most important point she makes at the end is that […]
Continue ReadingIntroduction This is a was a rewrite of part of a character history for a D&D 4E game that I did for a player at our table, the 16-year-old son of one of the other players. I originally did a rewrite for when he wanted to intertwine his character’s beginning history with my characters’. Since […]
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