A question to the so-called “religious right” who want to abolish separation of church and state altogether:
How would you feel if the religion expressed on the national stage were some equally skewed version of Islam, or Wicca, or … ( - insert your personal choice for “least appealing religious path” here - for me it’s [...]
Happy Earth Day!
Join the Stop Global Warming Virtual March
Read the Progress Report
See the HBO Special “Too Hot Not to Handle“. They have also done a great job of creating a list of resources (including organizations who are committed to fighting global warming).
Reward companies that have a triple bottom line: People, Planet AND Profit. Buy [...]
42 cents of every American tax dollar pay for war
Monday night I saw Amy Ray of Indigo Girls’ fame at Wahoo! Grill in Decatur.
We were having the rare dinner out, as Ben (5) was otherwise engaged. About midway through our meal, I noticed her walk in with three friends. It turns out that she had been a student of my hubby’s at Emory [...]
So Supreme Court Justice Scalia made a “Sicilian” gesture toward anyone who might question his impartiality on issues involving the separation of church and state -this as he was leaving a mass in Boston.
But this was not just any mass.
He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, [...]
Joseph Nechvatal, my friend and intellectual compadre in viral realms, has his latest exhibition in Ohio. “Contaminations” has been extended to run through June 25th at the Butler Institute of American Art’s Beecher Center. The show includes a selection of computer-robotic assisted paintings starting in the mid-1980’s and concludes with a recent electronic viral installation.
Go [...]
A major find in Western Cypress, in an already-looted tomb near the village of Kouklia, in the coastal Paphos area. The area contained several ancient cemeteries that belonged to the town of Palaepaphos, site of a temple to Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love, believed to have risen from the waves of the nearby sea).
The [...]
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