rewards – eternal and earthly

Have you ever asked yourself, “Who’s minding the family dog after the Rapture?” Wonder no more. This is a brilliant idea for a business. Reminds me of the old SubGenius ploy, “eternal salvation or triple your money back.” Thanks to my brother for sharing this link.
If all goes well, I leave for my dusty reward [...]

he burns in 12 days

Tutu? Check!
Multiple cans of chili? Check!
“To Serve Man” boxer shorts? Check!
Lots of blinky lights? Check!
“Sloth” choir robes? Check!
Big honkin’ hammer and rebar? Check!
Hell Huffy ready to roll? Check!

“i saw it with my own eyes”

There’s a wonderfully clear explanation of why important medical treatments ought to be based something more than, “Well, it worked for me.” Harriet Hall does it in this blog post. If you want get right to it, scroll down to the heading, “Sometimes We Get It Wrong.” Nicely stated, convincing, not condescending, just sensible.

barney frank-a rare voice of sanity

I apologize for the image of Larry King at the beginning of the video.

best of all possible sisters

She’s had a setback. Maybe not surprising in terms of what-did-you-expect-with-stage-4-glioblastoma but a setback still slaps you hard in the face. What now? There’s another clinical trial she could try. Another surgery. Or both. A hundred years of worry have been squished into a few months. I don’t know how it is for others, but [...]

in search of the perfect caffeine

My quest for a non-coffee caffeine beverage has been a difficult one. Here are my past contenders:

Mountain Dew. Doesn’t taste very good and includes a whole bunch of sugar.
Diet Dew was tried for fewer calories but it tasted like Slurm.
NOS energy drink. Barely acceptable taste, but has enough caffeine to keep me going on the [...]

after four years – the ouija mouse pad speaks

It was September of 2005 when the mystical Ouija mouse pad last communicated through this blog. The long time lag is probably a good thing considering the content of its messages. In any case, I was astonished to find that it wanted to speak again tonight. I’ll relinquish control and let it do the talking:
Listen [...]

protecting marriage from people who want to get married

Our local newspaper (not dead yet, but shrinking) published an odd letter to the editor the other day. A woman wrote in to explain that same-sex civil unions are okay, but not marriage. Why? Her answer is “just because.”
There are a great many of us who desire to keep the definition of marriage as a [...]