Remember the Unitarian Jihad? Now you can get your own name: My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Holy Claymore of Enlightened Tranquility. What’s yours?
Open Threads
Summer Camp
Might I suggest sending your children to Camp Inquiry: This is a place where kids can be themselves. We work toward helping youth confront the challenges of living a non-theistic/secular lifestyle in a world dominated by religious belief and pseudoscience. Grounded on the conviction that kids can begin establishing habits of the good and ethical …
Sleepytime
Yeah, this is so sweet I feel like I need to brush my teeth:
Things That Are Worth It
I’ve been fighting the IRS over a stupid mistake made for over three years ago (my former mortgage company didn’t report my mortgage interest properly.) It involved several phone calls, several letters, and a lot of general bitching. Today, I finally got a check from them for $4100, based on a mortgage my partner an …
Larison’s Take
Daniel Larison has a pretty perceptive piece up that is worth visiting: Of course, the “fiercely independent” McCain spent the bulk of 1999 and the early months of 2000 (and many years after that) trying to please other people. The difference then was that Ignatius and other members of the Washington press corps were the …
Open Thread
I won’t bother you guys with all the stuff that I have to deal with with for my new job, but it’s a lot. No complaints though. Being busy as all get-out means that I get to spend my waking hours doing stuff that I like (TIRF-FRET FTW, bee-yotches). The downside is that I can’t …
RIP Randy Pausch
Very sad. If you don’t know who Randy Pausch is, then you need to watch his “Last Lecture.”