“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.” — Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King is dead. A woman of grace and strength and courage and dignity is gone. Equality. Human Rights. Non-violence. Peace. She worked hard to keep these ideas out front and center as solid goals for our country. She fought alongside many others for a national holiday in honor of her husband’s birthday. She opened the…
Ok, Exxon Mobile beats out my entry on Chevron’s profits. The world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, has announced its record-breaking profits for 2005 — $36.13 billion. That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism. Again. That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism. ExxonMobil uses its billions to sabotage efforts to slow global warming and to lobby Congress in support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off…
You can get a tee shirt with your blog’s “word cloud” printed on it at snapshirts.com. They let you tweak it too (in case you really wished you’d seen this before you posted something like that last joke). It’s a fun idea, but the execution here still needs a little work. It seems to me that I’ve seen a better, more aethetically pleasing word cloud function somewhere else. Anyone know where?
(Mahatma) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of callouses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail. And with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. Therefore, he was known as….. Wait for it…. I just love word play…. A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. (In case you don’t get it, this is a pun on “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” Mary Poppins [1964]) (slightly…
… Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme Week 156 I say:: you think Long distance:: romance Meant to be:: together Here:: and now Endless:: love (song meme dates me) Resentment:: pity Insipid:: airhead Bunny:: ski Slogan:: jingle Naked:: truth Sarcasm:: defensive wit
Thanks to Pastor Dan at the Street Prophets blog for this update on the “War of Christmas” propaganda. As it turns out, the entire story of the school banning “Silent Night” is bogus. Well, the school has turned the tables against the “Liberty” Counsel, the conservative group who appeared on Fox news threatening to sue the school. Wisconsin State Journal, “Dodgeville district firing back over Christmas controversy,” Jan. 25th The Dodgeville School District, accused in December of launching an “attack…