Properties of Water: 4/1/12

Monday, April 30, 2012

Thank you, A!

RIP Carol Kell. You will be missed. (Thank you for the picture, Ang)

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Baby hiccups are funny...especially when they're still in the tummy.

Seriously you guyz? Seriously?

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Isabel got a package of baby things today. It's not orange, but the owls are uh-dorable. Auntie L approves.

Gliding around in the wind...

A good reminder.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Epicurus

Chillaxin'

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Oh, sweet, sweet Slog...

Religion We Will Know They are Christians When...

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:15 AM

...they are from the UK (not the USA):

...Daily Mail, summed up the two-tiered conclusion of a new report from the British think tank Demos, which found that in England 1) "religious people are more active citizens (who) volunteer more, donate more to charity and are more likely to campaign on political issues" and 2) "religious people are more likely to be politically progressive (people who) put a greater value on equality than the non-religious, are more likely to be welcoming of immigrants as neighbours (and) more likely to put themselves on the left of the political spectrum." These findings are important to America for two reasons.
First, they tell us that, contrary to evidence in the United States, the intersection of religion and politics doesn't have to be fraught with hypocrisy. Britain is a Christian-dominated country, and the Christian Bible is filled with liberal economic sentiment. It makes perfect sense, then, that the more devoutly loyal to that Bible one is, the more progressive one would be on economics.

What went wrong with American Christianity?

Here in the United States, those who self-identify as religious tend to be exactly the opposite of their British counterparts when it comes to politics. As the Pew Research Center recently discovered, "Most people who agree with the religious right also support the Tea Party" and its ultra-conservative economic agenda. Summing up the situation, scholar Gregory Paul wrote in the Washington Post that many religious Christians in America simply ignore the Word and "proudly proclaim that the creator of the universe favors free wheeling, deregulated union busting, minimal taxes, especially for wealthy investors, and plutocrat-boosting capitalism as the ideal earthly scheme for his human creations."

Its road to hell is not even paved with good intentions.