The wrist continues to improve. My hand remains shaky, stiff, and weak, but the dexterity is markedly better and I'm starting to get something like a grip. I still can't open jars, but I can pick up anything that's lightweight. It's something!...
Madeleine Bair writes of an Oakland neighborhood that discovered the future by turning to its past...
It's About Time Dept: For years, corporations opening new new sites have pitted municipalities against each other by promising new jobs in exchange for favorable tax conditions. This race to the bottom often costs the cities in competition with each other more in tax revenue then they get back in employment. Finally, some are fighting back, insisting that companies either make good on job guarantees or return the corporate welfare checks they've received from local taxpayers...
David Sirota's Top 10 Quotations of the Past Decade...
The New York Times reports this morning on a connection between a recent visit to Uganda by three evangelists and that country's current attempt to institutionalize hate crimes against homosexuals. The evangelists, naturally, deny any connection at all, despite the fact that they spoke before Uganda's parliament and that one has written admiringly of Ugandan resistance to western attempts to "re-homosexualize" (I kid you not) the country. The same evangelist, one Scott Lively, writes
I do not support the proposed anti-homosexuality law as written. It does not emphasize rehabilitation over punishment and the punishment that it calls for is unacceptably harsh. However, if the offending sections were sufficiently modified, the proposed law would represent an encouraging step in the right direction.
Big of you, Scott. Apparently, a law that emphasized punishment in the appropriate degree would be fine; it's simply a matter of calibration. How about twenty years of hard labor? Of course, that could be "forgiven" should the "offender" undergo reeducation at the hands of the International Healing Foundation (at his expense, of course)...
A riff on my favorite moment from the best TV show filmed in the Pacific Northwest:
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Glad to hear that you're doing better! The gray is beginning to get to me -- brings out the aches and pains in us old broads!
Great post as always, and have to admit that I will never be able to understand people like Scott Lively! And what on earth do they mean by "undergo reeducation" and "re-homosexulaize"? Talk about sick!! They need to look in the mirror -- they're the ones who could stand a whole lot of reeducation, you know, like in humanity?????
Sylvia
No argument from me. The web sites for these guys are essentially a vehicle for peddling the books they have written. When you get right down to it, they're all frauds out to make a buck.
Great set of quotes from Sirota! And it scares me that anybody would use the term "rehabilitation" in referring to altering or modifying human behavior. Anybody remember Pol Pot and his "Re-education Camps"?
U.S. rightwingxtian K House / the Family with all those prayer warrior senators has been deeply involved with this evil importation to Uganda,
They go over there to advise the leaders how to do it.
Just as they pressure their kind in the military to pressure their fellow and sister troops to evangelize. See Hitchens report on the latest of this in the current Vanity Fair, which is online.
Love, C.
I have not been able to read Hitchens since he came out gung-ho for the Iraq war. I also met him about ten years ago and came away deeply unimpressed. But, I'll look up the article and give it a try.
The Air Force Academy has become infamous for recruiting Christian right types. They have begun to dominate the Air Force office corps, which is bad news for all of us.
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