Just Tagging After Eve’s Lungs
I haven’t had a good idea for a post since the last post. Well I had some ideas, but I bet you do not want to read any of my lame random questions about advertising and appliance repair services or rants about bent politics. For that reason (and because I enjoyed the answers at Eve’s Lungs) I am writing about my literary tastes prompted by this post.
1) What author do you own the most books by?
A toss up between Robin McKinley, Anne Perry, Jane Austen, Katherine Neville, and Dean Koontz
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Even When Your Voice Trembles
If you are a new reader of this blog you may not have read enough of my earlier posts to know that I am proudly left leaning. I am avidly outspoken against the habit of the ultra conservative evangelical Christian right forcing their religious beliefs upon society by attempting to impose a religion-based legal code on the rest of us. I admit that I have little tolerance for those who use their religion to rant against and condemn others or to rob them of their basic civil rights and individual freedoms. However, while I oppose their attempts to pass religion-based laws, I defend absolutely their rights to speak their minds and to believe as they do.
For that reason, I think Carrie Prejean is being treated wrongly. This young woman was asked a question and she gave an honest and personal answer and attempted to do so with no vitriol. Read the rest of this entry »
Have Half the Country Lost Their Minds?
We watched a news program this morning with a discussion about the first hundred days and where the country is on certain issues. I had to do a double-take, rewind the DVR and close my gaping mouth. According to one survey nearly half the country now consider torture as an acceptable way to gain information from prisoners such as those held in Guantanamo.
That is a significant change from early in the year. Apparently the debate over the issue, kept alive by key decision-makers from the previous administration, caused some people to rethink the issue. OKAY folks, are you out of your minds or are you simply watching too much 24? In the conflicts and wars that our country has fought we have been able to hold our heads up and stand with those nations who condemned the acts of countries who tortured and abused their prisoners. When our people went too far we disciplined them. Read the rest of this entry »
One More Time, Lets Make It Easier For Children!
Okay, so I am rehashing an older post, but my sister and I were talking this morning and the topic turned to family and I was recounting some issues of how some members of our family have adjusted to what is now an interracial extended family. This turned to my experience when Matthew, Lydia, and I were trying to adopt children through the state of Texas, where we lived at the time. It was an awful experience that left us with no more children and a bad taste in our mouths. The natural turn of discussion was to the stupers (for definition see Counterfeit Humans) who pontificate about celebrity adoptions and about those who make the rules that make it difficult for children needing parents to be matched with people wanting to be parents. So I am re-posting a previous rant (April, 14, 2008) about this topic. For those of you who read it then, my apologies for redundancy, (although I added a bit at the end) but then again sometimes we simply need to continue to stand on the roof and shout at the fools in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
