Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Blogger talks about (and links directly to) a report on fundamentalist harassment of Jews in the Air Force Academy;

The unchallenged "statistic" on CNN last week wherein a Texas anti-gay activist claimed queers were 11 times more likely to molest children than straights came from Our Friend, Paul Cameron, and the Wall Street Journal debunks it;

FotF attacks the Interfaith Alliance as attacking the "Nation's Christian Roots";

Today's Focus on the Family Family News in Focus is again missing stories - five listed, three actually in the broadcast;

ACTION ITEM urging targeted calls and letters of support for a Federal anti-marriage amendment in the new Citizen Magazine, published by FotF;

Two Concerned Women for America action items in a single article - one on Federal abortion legislation, one on judicial nominees;

CWFA's Robert Knight's comments at Anti-marriage, anti-GBLT rally in Maine on April 28th;

Seattle PI article on anti-gay, anti-marriage eastside preacher Hutcherson - the one who lobbied Microsoft to drop support for state-wide anti-discrimination law.

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flowers the size of melons

We have a lot of these growing outside by the north path. They're huge! Apparently, they're called peonies. They don't smell as nice as roses do, but then, what does? But I like them anyway, even if they feel kind of like they're way too easy. They just show up out of the ground! It's like cheating!

Still, I want to get more roses planted here. What do peonies know of struggle? NOTHING! Give me cranky, irritable, thorny plants like roses, plants whose respect you have to earn.

"Name a shrub after me. Something prickly, and hard to eradicate."

Still, it's awfully pretty. We'll have flowers for the bud vases this year. ^_^