alhamdulillah

thank allah i wasn't born in afghanistan.

i can haz nitemare

I see a strange similarity here...minus one incubus.

How I spend my time sometimes

This was our "skit" about Dayton for our Literacy*AmeriCorps conference. I'm soo enthusiastic. All the awesome video effects were Alyssa's doing. Enjoy.

Capitalism meets... short term memory loss?

The first publicly traded Marijuana mfg

Gay Marriage and Religion

This is a great little discussion of the legal issues involved with the intersection of religion and gay marriage. I'm fascinated by this sort of thing, but I understand if you're not.

It brings up a couple of really good points, though. The institution of marriage is both religious and secular. The religious folk are free to put whatever restrictions upon marriage they would like--there is no guarantee of equal opportunity in religion, and there never has been. And probably never will be. They are allowed specific first-amendment protection against being forced to do things they don't want to do. Catholicism is free to keep women and married men out of the priesthood, for example.

I personally have never heard the argument that if GLBT folks are afforded the right to marry then churches will be forced to marry them against their beliefs. I agree with the response that it would never happen. But it's a great argument if you want to get even socially moderate religious people to vote against allowing that to happen.

Secular institutions (like the courts and the law) have an obligation to serve all people equally. When it comes to the law, people should be equal. And I think someday they will.

Its all in the Titles

So i was looking at the tv today,on the second channel of abc, ( the weather / news update thing). its cold and rainy looking outside, but the radar showed nothing. This did not grab my attention. Two "breaking" stories on the bottom of the screen did however.
Arrest made in Rage against the Vending Machine. Pretty weak joke if you ask me, and also
Tree grows in Man's Lung
something tells me that this is more important than vandalism at a vending machine, hmm wait, its Russia.
Also, little fish was found dead this morning. I never got a chance to get him some medicine, nor a name.

on a brighter note

this made me giggle, i thought y'all would appreciate it.

Stephanie:oh i moved almost everything in my room around
Stephanie:sooo its very different
Sara:kinky
Sara:I like switching it up
Sara:keeps things from getting dull
Sara: :P
Stephanie:wait are we talking interior decoration or bottoms and tops?
Stephanie::P
Sara:both?
Stephanie:well when does one not include the other, i mean really?

Miami Lost

Fuck this sport

you, too, might be turned into pillars of who-knows-what-spice

Has anyone else noticed that gay marriage legislation seems to be snowballing lately? New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, D.C., and Colorado have all recently passed positive legislation either legalizing same-sex marriage or protecting the rights of same-sex couples who are unmarried or married in other states. Well done.

Of course, this has all the religious nutjobs waving their desexing sticks most unsexily. What are the crazies going to do when it doesn't rain fire and brimstone?

p.s. there are crickets chirping around here. What's up with that?

Openmindedness

I'm beating amanda to the punch on this one.