Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Skim this if you want, but for the love of god, read the last item. Seriously. Play the .wav file. But not at work. It's unbelievably funny.

In "BRING IT, POPTART" news, Eastside pastor Hutcherson promises "action" against Microsoft for re-endorsing anti-discrimination legislation;

Swedish study indicates possible biological basis for homosexuality in males;

Transcription of speech talking about something I've noticed before; some subsets of fundamentalism seem to be clustering around the idea that conservation is unchristian, and that god will provide in all cases until Jesus returns;

Focus on the Family launches into any attempt to compromise on the judicial rules change issue - anything less than a rules change is unacceptable (includes action item);

FotF attacks Kraft for helping sponsour the Gay Games - includes action item;

Focus on the Family congratulates Rev. Hutcherson for getting Microsoft to back off from HB1515; Hutcherson notes that they now know Microsoft can be "pushed around;"

FotF action item against GBLT-protections in medical treatment in Nebraska; quotes Hutcherson, again, who may now be a rising star in the fundamentalist movement;

Today's Family News in Focus includes story (in theory) on the pheromone study talked about above;

Concerned Women for America launches Harry Reid over the judicial issue;

CWA says judicial nominee blocking is racist and sexist;

Traditional Values Coalition has three articles, which includes link to action items, on "their" California anti-marriage-rights initiative;

Anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley, of the "Nuremberg Files" website listing home addresses and photographs of doctors who perform abortions, defends having sex with mules when growing up as "normal" and something everyone does. NO, I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.

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Here and there

Not all that much to talk about, really. Drew at art night, but not much worth keeping; I'll maybe scan one thing later. I really have to get to work on a couple of short articles for this magazine I write for occasionally - one of them is due at the end of the month. They're both short so it won't be difficult. I hope! I've also got a big concom meeting - the last Norwescon 28 concom meeting - this Saturday.

In other news, I was heading down Ravenna Boulevard at about 25 mph on my bike and I heard something plastic drop onto the road, and it turned out to be the handle of the little pump I keep strapped to the bike body. It just went "ping!" and was no longer connected. V. annoying. Not that I let that stop me. I blame the barrow wrights.

But mostly I'm sleepy! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Towards Rivendell:
Saturday: 0.5 miles
Sunday: Lazed about
Monday: 2 miles
Today (Wednesday): 17 miles
Miles out of Hobbiton: 117.9. Three wrongs don't make a Wright, ar ar ar ar. Also passed hot blonde elfbabe, flirted. Ky00t! Jealous of her tits, tho'. -_^ Mrr. ^_^
Miles to Rivendell: 340.1

Today, not so much a flower, as a pleasant grouping in a neighbour's yard down by the postbox:


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