pantoum's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIBLICAL INERRANCY AND MEMORIALIZED VEGETABLES 261. It was bound to happen. The William Morris Agency has sold the rights to publish, on the one-year anniversary of her death, an as-yet-untitled memoir written by the parents and siblings of the late Terri Schiavo, that will �share their love and sorrow, joy and pain, and some shocking revelations as they honor Terri�s life, mourn her death, and finally tell the whole story.� And the president has nominated a homophobic, anti-choice evangelical who has never even served as a judge and who believes in biblical inerrancy to serve on the highest bench in the land. And over 11 million American households have Built-a-Bears(TM) now. That�s over 30 million bears in the past eight years. Wonder how many of our households will devote the same amount of time to expressing outrage about this continuing cronyism? Or are we too goddamn distracted by fucking fuzzy teddy bears and the newest Survivor episoder? Here we have it, straight from Texas: the fifth vote needed to overturn Roe v. Wade. Warner cannot possibly publish Christopher Hitchens� GOD IS NOT GREAT: THE CASE AGAINST RELIGION fast enough. Hitchens asserts, in this book, that religion does more harm than good in the world, and aims to show how society would benefit if faith remained personal rather than public. Of course, Christianists are not going to read this book ... but I was raised by a Christianist�and a paranoid schizophrenic religiously delusional one at that�and have to believe that Christianists' children might. And now a quote. James Madison said The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. Iraq. Did he say Iraq? 5:31 p.m. - 2005-10-05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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