[links] Link salad for a JayFest Thursday
Altitude May Influence Language Sounds — The lower air pressure at high altitudes may be a factor in why ejective consonants are more popular in languages spoken higher up.
What Will Humans Look Like in 100,000 Years? Here’s a Guess — Callista Flockhart, apparently. And white, totes white.
Paper Dolls: 1960s TV Stars — For all your retro needs.
Virus That Evolved in the Lab Delivers Gene Therapy into the Retina
Does the Big Bang necessarily mean we’re part of a multiverse?
Mapping Color Names — Oooh. Cool.
The Surprising History and Science of Tear Gas
The lost city of Heracleion — Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)
New York’s Sea-Level Plan: Will It Play in Miami? — Once again I am reminded that there is no objective reason for climate change to be a partisan issue. Just reflexive conservative hatred of anything liberals care about, as well as the usual GOP contrarianism, in play over what in retrospect will prove to be the biggest and costliest mistake in the history of human civilization.
To Stop Being the Party of Stupid You Must Stop Being Stupid — If you are not around people who will look at you like you are crazy when you make stupid claims about other people’s experiences, then you tend to keep saying stupid things about other people’s experiences. It is not enough to pay a political price, or even to be shamed into silence. You have to come to believe — in your heart — that sincerity itself is not the same as accurate information. That’s the awesome socially engineered glory of the conservative media echo chamber: epistemic closure that keeps its followers from ever needing to question themselves or examine any evidence that contradicts their cherished worldview. As a political strategy, it has been brilliant. As a cultural strategy, it is profoundly toxic and counterproductive, even to conservative interests.
QotD?: What did you do with that book?
6/13/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (too many errands, not enough time)
Hours slept: 4.75 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 246.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block leaking intelligence secrets: 0
Currently reading: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program by Sharon Salzberg; Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Tags: climate, Cool, Culture, healthcare, Language, Links, nature, Personal, Photos, Politics, Science, Tech, weird
Posted: 4:36 am Thu June 13 2013 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad has ninety-nine problems
The Inkhorn Controversy — Ah, lexical change. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Simple theory may explain mysterious dark matter, physicists say — One physicist says he likes this theory because of “its simplicity, uniqueness and the fact that it can be tested.”
So What Do Women Want? — Interesting commentary on female sexuality and socialization from Feminist Mormon Housewives.
TSA Questions Chewbacca’s Lightsaber — Because safety!
Government Secrets and the Need for Whistle-blowers — Some rather well-informed comment. (Via David Goldman.)
Anti-Imperialism and Conservatives — Rapping about Grover Cleveland. Now that is some old school politics.
Masters of Austerity and Deregulation: Dennis Lehane and Does the Tea Party GOP Want Another Molasses Disaster? — Speaking of old school. (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
QotD?: Which problem ain’t one for you?
6/11/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.5 hours (WRPA)
Hours slept: 6.5 hours (fitful)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 247.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block creating tornadoes for political distraction: 0
Currently reading: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program by Sharon Salzberg
Tags: gender, history, Language, Links, Personal, Politics, Science, Travel
Posted: 4:46 am Tue June 11 2013 | Comments(5) |
[links] Link salad asks where did you come from, where did you go?
Waving My Tweak Flag High — On the process of revision. (Thanks to David Goldman.)
Timbuktu Libraries in Exile — Help us preserve a global cultural heritage from imminent loss and become part of the great learning adventure of Timbuktu. Fundraising for a profoundly worthy cause. (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1)
threeoutside.)
Looking It in the Face — On aging and death… (Via David Wilford.)
What Is Capuling? ‘Everyday I’m Çapuling’ Turkish Protest Video Goes Viral — Language and culture in motion. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Most European males ‘descended from farmers’ — Most men in Europe can trace a line of descent to early farmers who migrated from the Near East, a study says. Why is this surprising? (Via my Dad.)
Museum Bares All For Cycle Exhibition — Clothing is optional, of course. Riders will be charged one dollar admission for each item they wear. Portland Police recommend all cyclists wear a helmet, at the bare minimum. Ah, Portland.
Physics’s pangolin — Trying to resolve the stubborn paradoxes of their field, physicists craft ever more mind-boggling visions of reality. Interesting stuff. (Via AH.)
Mars rover Opportunity finds traces of ‘drinkable’ water
Atomic bomb tests confirm formation of new brain cells — Newly created neurons marked with isotopes from bomb tests. Because Science!
Contact Lens Computer: Like Google Glass, without the Glasses — Finally, retinal displays!
West Texas Oilfield Town Runs Out of Water — All those rural liberals in West Texas are just contributing to the climate change conspiracy.
4-year-old boy accidentally kills dad in Arizona — Because guns make us all safer. Just ask the 30,000 people killed in the United States every year by firearms. If you’re confused, the NRA and the GOP can explain.
Response to an Open Letter — Hal Duncan speaks brilliantly to wounded, self-valorizing Christian privilege from an atheist (and nonheteronormative) perspective.
If I Were a Black Kid… — Ta-Nehisi Coates on education. Though he’s speaking specifically of black youth, some of his comments are spot on for kids in any enclosed community, such as Christian homeschoolers or small towns.
#GOPHeartsLadies (video) — A great video from Emily’s Lists, titled #GOPHeartsLadies, walking us through the offensive things Republicans have said about women in just the past seven days. And Republicans wonder why they have a demographic problem. They just can’t stop longing for the days of white, male, dominance.
QotD?: What the heck did cotton-eyed Joe ever do to you?
6/8/2013
Writing time yesterday: 2.75 hours (revisions to “Rock of Ages”)
Hours slept: 6.5 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 247.9
Number of FEMA troops on my block creating tornados for political distraction: 0
Currently reading: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Books, Christianists, climate, coo, gender, guns, healthcare, Language, Links, Mars, nature, Personal, Politics, Portlnd, Process, race, Religion, Tech, Texas, Videos, weird, Writing
Posted: 6:14 am Sat June 08 2013 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad says Happy Birthday to me
Coming Soon: “Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction” — A project of which I was a part. I provided the chapter on steampunk. Unfortunately, I did not inquire as to the stable of my co-authors.
Jay Lake and Austin Sirkin in Conversation — Locus with a podcast recorded last spring at ICFA. We talk steampunk, mostly.
We are here to protect you. We are here to protect you from the terrible secret of Seanans. — seanan_mcguire on (among other things) our current WIP collaboration.
Think Similar — Rhetoricians call switching a word from one part of speech to another “anthimeria”. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Book Domino Chain World Record — Oh, this is so cute. (Thanks to threeoutside.)
There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written — (Thanks to threeoutside.)
On Being an Octopus — Diving Deep in Search of the Human Mind. (Thanks to AH.)
Fresh-Squeezed: 1951 — Mmm. Oranges.
What We Think Martians Look Like: Photos — Some classic images.
New Science of Cosmography Reveals 3-D Map of the Local Universe
Chester E. McDuffee’s patented diving suit (1911) — Wow. And a cool site it’s on, too. (Thanks to David E. Vincent.)
First “Small Modular” Nuclear Reactors Planned for Tennessee
Helicopter Operated By Pure Mind Control
Invisibility ‘time cloak’ developed
Can “Infinite Variation” Be Mass-Produced Using 3-D Printing? — Shapeways looks to software to bring down production costs and time to market in its 3-D printing factory in New York City.
Rep. Marc Veasey condemns racist remarks by Dallas Republican activist — “I’m going to be real honest with you, the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats,” [Tea Party Republican] Ken Emanuelson said. Are you proud of your Republican Party?
IMF ‘to admit mistakes’ in handling Greek debt crisis and bailout — Wait? What? Austerity isn’t the answer to everything? Clearly we need more tax cuts!
“Yes Virginia, There Are Death Panels”: Limbaugh Exploits Child Transplant Patient To Revive Obamacare Myth — Because conservatives lie. Constantly and knowingly. That’s what happens when truth and reality aren’t ever on your side.
Obama says GOP obstruction of nominations is ‘unprecedented.’ What if he’s right? — Republicans deny that their obstructionism is unprecedented. As it happens, though, there is a set of actual facts we can look at to try to determine who is right.
QotD?: When is your birthday?
6/6/2013
Writing time yesterday: 2.25 hours (WRPA editing and revising “Hook Agonistes”)
Hours slept: 6.75 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.0 hours (feet hurt)
Weight: n/a (traveling)
Number of FEMA troops on my block creating tornados for political distraction: 0
Currently reading: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Tags: audio, Books, Cool, economy, Funny, healthcare, Language, Links, Mars, nature, Personal, Photos, podcasts, Politics, Process, race, Science, stories, Tech, Videos, weird, Writing
Posted: 3:06 am Thu June 06 2013 | Comments(3) |
[links] Link salad is back at the keyboard once more
Temas en La ciencia ficción (XIII): El clockpunk
Eefing — Huh? (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Would Smell As Sweet: Geo-popularity of Given Names — Apparently I dwell in Sophialand.
Vintage embalming supplies
xkcd on crank cancer cures — You must read the mouseover.
Centuries-old frozen plants revived — Plants that were frozen during the “Little Ice Age” centuries ago have been observed sprouting new growth, scientists say.
Wanted for the Internet of Things: Ant-Sized Computers — A computer two millimeters square is the start of an effort to make chips that can put computer power just about anywhere for the vaunted “Internet of Things.”
Data Won the Election. Now Can It Save the World? — Mmm. Big Data.
The Arctic Ice “Death Spiral”
Why do Muslims keep having to explain themselves? — We hate Islamicist brutes more than any outsiders ever could.
Naming the Perpetrator: Language and “Violence Against Women” — Oddly, I was just thinking about this recently, in the context of cringing at the kind of jokes we found acceptable in my middle school years ca. 1977-1979.
The Obamacare Shock — So yes, it does look as if there’s an Obamacare shock coming: the shock of learning that a public program designed to help a lot of people can, strange to say, end up helping a lot of people — especially when government officials actually try to make it work.
American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth — Move beyond Tea Party lies and phony patriotism. This Memorial Day, let’s remember our history honestly.
Supreme Court lifts time limit on some ‘actual innocence’ appeals — In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court removes the one-year limit on federal appeals for prisoners who can make a ‘convincing showing of actual innocence.’ Because to court conservatives, your right to be railroaded by police and prosecutors is far more important than your innocence.
Rep. Bachmann will not run for reelection in 2014 — Bachmann, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, said her decision to leave office in 2014 also was not influenced by an ongoing federal investigation into allegations of financial impropriety in her presidential campaign. I’m amazed. I thought the Dunning-Kruger ticket was invincible within the Republican base.
CIA Whistleblower who revealed Torture is still in Jail; Torturers walk Free — Just in case you somehow believe that Obama is a good guy. This is Bush-grade political cowardice.
QotD?: Did you miss me?
5/29/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (computer logistics)
Hours slept: 5.75 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 248.2
Number of FEMA troops on my block scamming disaster aid slush funds: 0
Currently reading: Thud by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Cancer, climate, Culture, gender, healthcare, Language, Links, music, nature, Personal, Politics, Religion, Tech, weird, Writing
Posted: 5:14 am Wed May 29 2013 | Comments(2) |
[links] Link salad clocks in from Portland once more
When present tense gets strangled in the woes, made of our future foe scenarios — Lisa Costello talks more about my prognosis and next steps from her perspective.
Day By Day: A Mother’s Life With Cancer — (Via shellyrae.)
Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife — Highly relevant to me right now. Probably potentially relevant to anyone reading this. (Via my Dad.)
Reflections on Death, God, and Sunshine — I like this.
On “blogs” and “posts” — An, language neepery.
‘Month in the life of Twitter’ survey shows network’s distribution of languages — Leetaru used the Twitter ‘decahose’, a feed of 10 percent of all tweets not available to the general public. “Decahose?” Wait, what? (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
If everything fades into the background, you may have a high IQ — Ignoring a specific visual distractor correlates with IQ scores. Hmm. If true, this implies a number of odd and interesting things.
Should Memorial Day include Commemoration of Thoreau? — Huh. Some things I did not know.
Who’s the Threat? Western Powers have invaded and Killed Millions of Muslims — The West is far more of an existential threat to Islam than the other way around, based simply on the numbers.
Bob Dole says he, Nixon, Reagan wouldn’t make it in today’s GOP — Given that it was Dole, Powell, Reagan and that entire generation of post-Nixon Republicans who knowingly made the GOP into the madhouse it is today as part of the effort to continue generating enough angry white guys to stay in business, it’s years too late and trillions of dollars too short for them to be complaining about it now. Senator Dole, you assclowns very much on purpose shit this political bed. Unfortunately, all of America has to lie in it. Maybe you should have thought of this twenty years ago? Conscience always comes too late to conservatives.
QotD?: Are you home today?
5/27/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (travel day)
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (fitful)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 251.2
Number of FEMA troops on my block scamming disaster aid slush funds: 0
Currently reading: How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
Tags: Cancer, Culture, health, healthcare, Language, Links, Personal, Politics, radiantlisa, Religion
Posted: 8:23 am Mon May 27 2013 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad reads those words of wit
‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative — Kameron Hurley on non-furry cannibalistic llamas. And much more. (Via rekre8.)
Remembering The Long Lost Germans Of Texas — More than a century ago, German settlers found a pocket of Texas to call home between Austin and San Antonio. And once the local lingo merged with their own language, it proved to be an interesting dialect.
The Princess — How old is 2? (Via willyumtx.)
Defining My Dyslexia
2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest — Wow. (Via tillyjane, a/k/a my mom.)
Lunar Corona over Cochem Castle — A gorgeous photo.
Measuring light in the universe since the Big Bang
Cosmic latte — Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the average color of the universe, given by a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
No Bail for Pa. Parents in Faith-Healing Death — Faith healing isn’t religion, it’s child abuse. Pure and simple. Adults are free to go to hell in their own way, but they are not free to take children along for the ride. In our Christianist-dominated cultural climate, I am nonetheless surprised to see prosecution.
When Politicians promise ‘Lower Taxes’ they are promising Collapsed Bridges — Infrastructure decay is the inevitable result of conservative tax policy. Unless you believe in the fairy tale of supply side economics, but that has neither theoretical support from objective economists who aren’t already committed conservatives, nor any track record of success whatsoever in the real world. Me, I like civil society and public infrastructure, and it takes taxes to keep those things going. Hell, even Republicans drive over bridges.
Three reasons Congress is broken — Only three? There are 233 House Republicans and 45 Senate Republicans. That’s 278 more reasons Congress is broken.
QotD?: What is your least favorite joke?
5/25/2013
Writing time yesterday: 1.0 hours (WRPA, otherwise on workshop time)
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (interrupted)
Body movement: n/a
Weight: n/a
Number of FEMA troops on my block scamming disaster aid slush funds: 0
Currently reading: Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Christianists, Cool, Culture, Funny, gender, healthcare, Language, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Process, Religion, Science, Texas, Videos
Posted: 6:13 am Sat May 25 2013 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad prove to you that it’s no fool, walks across your swimming pool
It’s hard to rely on my good intentions, when my head’s full of things that I can’t mention — Lisa Costello on how my cancer news is affecting her.
Game Theory and the Treatment of Cancer — Thinking about cancer as an ecosystem is giving biologists access to a new armoury of mathematical tools for tackling it, such as evolutionary game theory.
The History of Typography – Animated Short — This is kind of nifty. (Via threeoutside.)
Alice E. Kober, 43; Lost to History No More — Ancient languages and eccentric professors. It doesn’t get any better! (Via my Dad.)
Dull Flag and Tongue of Gangsta: The Laugh-out-loud Place-names of Shetland and Orkney
Beatnik JFK: 1957 — For some reason, I find this photo very funny.
Researcher Analyzes Oldest Fossil Hominid Ear Bones Ever Recovered
Fossil Amber Challenges Theories About Glass — Scientists discover that glass doesn’t flow like a liquid.
Kangaroos have three vaginas — Mmm, marsupials. (Via David Goldman.)
One Small Step for Geoengineering — or Is “Ecoengineering” Better?
Space Oddity — David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. We are indeed living in the future. (Via David Goldman and others.)
‘Einstein’s Planet’: New Alien World Revealed by Relativity
Climate Sensitivity Stunner: Last Time CO2 Levels Hit 400 Parts Per Million The Arctic Was 14°F Warmer!
The Dark Art of Racecraft — Jason Richwine’s place in the long history of research on race and IQ. Ta-Nehisi Coates is powerful on race and racism in academic tradition.
Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably) — I’m so proud of America at moments like this. With all the budget problems of government, and all the human suffering in our debated economy, we still have our priorities straight. (Via danjite.)
Japan WWII ‘comfort women’ were ‘necessary’ – Hashimoto — A prominent Japanese politician has described as “necessary” the system by which women were forced to become prostitutes for World War II troops. Oh, God. Really? Not only seven kinds of wrong, but disgusting and morally depraved. China indignant at Japanese politician’s “comfort women” statement.
Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals — A new analysis of implicit bias and explicit sexual orientation statements may help to explain the underpinnings of anti-gay bullying and hate crimes. Also, this just in: water is wet. Inside a great number of angry conservative bigots is a fabulous gay man struggling to get out.
Naked TSA Protester’s Appeal to Be Heard Tuesday — A story of local interest here in Portland. It would be pretty funny if it weren’t so darned serious.
Police search for 19-year-old man shooting, wounding of 19 at New Orleans Mother’s Day parade — Because an armed society is a polite society, and guns make us all safer. Think how much harder it would have been for this shooter to exercise his theoretical defense of essential liberties without the smiling protection of the NRA and the Republican Party.
Right-wing media check up: still crazy — The right-wing media hasn’t learned anything from its failures in 2012. It’s the same-old ‘Obama is evil’ conspiracy theories.
Gates: Administration Critics view of US Military Capabilities in Benghazi “Cartoonish” — Former Bush and Obama administrations secretary of defense Bob Gates, a lifelong Republican, replied to some of the GOP fantasies about the possibility of a US military mission into Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. The Republican obsession with Benghazi is just as bizarre and counterfactual as the vast majority of their other obsessions. Not that bizarre counterfactuals stopped Whitewater from morphing into the Clinton impeachment. Essentially, the GOP has been unable to accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president since LBJ.
Government secretly obtains phone records from journalists — Prosecutors targeted the Associated Press in an attempt to learn who leaked information about the CIA and an apparent terrorist plot in Yemen. If proven out, this is seven kinds of wrong. I don’t care what your politics are, this isn’t what our government does or should be doing. Should these allegations be substantiated, Attorney General Eric Holder needs to go, and Obama needs to answer for this. If nothing else, can this administration give us accountability? And some counterpoint on this.
QotD?: What is it that you have got that puts you where you are?
5/14/2013
Writing time yesterday: 1.5 hours (1.25 hours of revision, plus WRPA, editing METAtropolis: Green Space)
Hours slept: 5.0 hours (fitful)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: m/a (forgot)
Number of FEMA troops on my block digging for fossils in the yards of God-fearing Republicans: 0
Currently reading: The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Cancer, climate, Cool, economy, gay, guns, health, history, Japan, Language, Links, media, nature, Personal, Photos, Politics, race, radiantlisa, Science, space, sports, Travel, Videos, weird
Posted: 5:15 am Tue May 14 2013 | Comments(4) |
[links] Link salad wakes up in a different, shorter world
2013 Locus Awards Finalists — My Nebula- and Hugo-nominated novella, “The Stars Do Not Lie”, is also a finalist for the Locus Awards as well. I am quite pleased
A reader reacts to Escapement — They didn’t like it so much.
Ultraconserved words? Really?? — Language Log responds to the recent “ultraconserved words” story.
Sky Crane — A gorgeous photo of the construction of One World Trade Center.
Ridge could be piece of Pangaea — Speaking of ultraconserved.
First Quantum-Enhanced Images of a Living Cell
San Francisco gives up on cell phone warning stickers — Reuters’ reporting makes a hash of the science.
Changing U.S. Racial Demographics — This one pretty much explains itself.
Heritage: We Have Nothing To Do With Racial Immigration Study — This is the quality of conservative intellectual discourse. These are the people who produce it.
A former religious extremist explains how radicalization happens {plus, a theory of how suspected Boston Marathon bombers were radicalized} — The enemy is fundamentalism because fundamentalism is very attractive to people looking for Definitive Answers. Extremist religion provides a rigid, black-and-white framework for understanding the world. Much the same could be said of contemporary conservatism. Conservatives proudly “don’t do nuance“, and have explicitly rejected critical thinking and sneered at the reality based community. How different is that from religious extremism with its comfortingly simple answers? (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
On gun fatalities and terrorist fatalities — In the last 30 years, there have been 30,000 to 40,000 gun deaths in the United States per year, more than 900,000 people. In the last 40 years since 1970, there have been about 3,400 terror-related deaths. What would the response of a rational society be? Here in America, we will never know. (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
10 Things You Can’t Do and Become President
QotD?: Are you going to do something wonderful today?
5/9/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (stress)
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 246.8
Number of FEMA troops on my block digging for fossils in the yards of God-fearing Republicans: 0
Currently reading: The Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Awards, Books, Christianists, Cool, Escapement, guns, Language, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, race, Religion, reviews, Science, stories, Tech
Posted: 5:04 am Thu May 09 2013 | Comments(4) |
[links] Link salad knows that it is not Iron Man
Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy — This is freaking genius. (Spotted lots of places, but sent to me first by Lisa Costello.)
Batman: 1966 — Adam West, back in the day. Courtesy of Shorpy.
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ — Hmmm. (Via my brother.)
European migration evident in DNA patterns — A study of people in 40 countries illustrates long-established changes in Europe’s population. Going back a few thousand years, researchers find that everyone on Earth is related to everyone else. This is cool, but hardly surprising, I should think.
More than one-third of Oregon’s National Merit Scholars live in a single Portland-area ZIP code
More than half of the world’s population lives inside this circle
US Air Force Measures Potato Cannon Muzzle Velocities
Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients — Really? (Thanks to David Goldman.)
On the Rise — BLDG BLOG on the elevation of Galveston, TX after the devastating hurricane of 1900.
Tropical Climate History…Shrinking — Ice in the tropics.
“While some are seeking to withhold Communion from pro-choice and pro-marriage-equality Catholics, I have heard no call to withhold Communion from priests and bishops who have engaged in horrific sexual abuse against vulnerable children, nor their enablers.” — Yes. This. Religious activism in pursuit of anti-gay bigotry is all about politics and power. Not about morality or what is right and good. (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
QotD?: Do you face Stark choices?
5/8/2013
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (stress)
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (fitful)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 248.0
Number of FEMA troops on my block digging for fossils in the yards of God-fearing Republicans: 0
Currently reading: The Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Tags: Christianists, climate, Culture, Funny, healthcare, Language, Links, Movies, Oregon, Personal, Photos, Politics, Religion, Science, Tech, television, Texas, Videos
Posted: 5:22 am Wed May 08 2013 | Comments(3) |
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