Apparently the perseuction of Christians is this country is “Apartheid in Reverse:”

“There’s one group of people who get bullied all the time, and that’s Christians,” [Pastor Patrick Wooden] said. “I know what it is like to be bullied. It is apartheid in reverse — the majority is being bullied by the minority.” [ LA Times [...] Read more »

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I wondered why I “smelled gasoline this morning.”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18512-2004Dec22.html
[later] Wow. I know which exit this happened at — I’ve taken it accidentally enough times because it is so close to mine — and it’s dangerous enough at low speeds in a standard passenger vehicle:
bq. Sgt. Wallace Bouldin of the Virginia State Police said, “It appears the [...] Read more »

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The Elf informs me that the Sun hit its highest point over Washington DC today at 12:04 PM.
You know, no one has even said “Happy Yule” to me today. It’s because of all those evil Christians trying to take the Yule out of the “Yuletide season”:http://www.candlegrove.com/yule.html, I expect!
Here’s “what I wrote about Yule last [...] Read more »

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Man, things have gotten slow around here, haven’t they?
The last time I went to Bristol, Virginia Sarah and I walked around a bit downtown. Downtown Bristol is much more lively now than it was when I was growing up there, but it wouldn’t have taken much to accomplish _that_.
One of the stranger additions to [...] Read more »

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In large part out of protest of our galloping puritainism, but also because the topics are “eww” inspiring, here are two links you _should not miss_ (if you are over 18).
* The Literary Review’s “Bad Sex Award”:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1373416,00.html.
* “"Personal" attachments for cell phones”:http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66052,00.html. (”May not be legal in Texas”:http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-08-11/xtra_feature2.html.) Read more »

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