Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Southern Baptist Convention passes resolution urging churches to investigate local schools and try to shut down any GBLT-affirming or tolerant activities there; specific targets (according to earlier coverage) were gay-straight alliance student clubs and any student organisation which included any non-condemnational GBLT-focus;

Older (2002) article by Rick Santorum: liberals and media made Catholic priests abuse children;

FotF article on the political battle over PBS - includes action item;

Today's Family News in Focus;

Weird CWA article on today's Ten Commandments ruling;

Lobbying groups waiting for next Supreme Court nominee with bated breath;

Article on possible GOP rift over nominees; pro-business wing wants fundamentalist wing to shut up when nominees come up; fundamentalists say they will demand clear position statements on abortion, marriage rights (against both).

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That was neat, if brief

I think we just had a tiny earthquake. That's the first one I've felt - if it was one - in, gosh, a couple of years. (It was really little. A couple of books tipped and a stack of mail fell over, and there was just a little rattling.) I kind of thought it was a large truck going by before I remembered, "oh wait, we live at the end of a dead end street now." I went and checked for a large truck anyway, but there wasn't anything out there.

Entire duration was five or six seconds, intensity felt kinda like this: .:::....

Time was 12:50pm, plus or minus a couple of minutes. Nothing on the USGS website yet, but it hasn't updated in a while.

In other news, today is much better from an allergy standpoint. Far from perfect, but definitely better. I've also vacuumed and done a lot of housework stuff. And we ended up walking a bit getting around the U. District for Mimi's birthday dinner and movie, so I've got some to log on that front, too. Yay!

Sunday's miles: 1.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 246.35
Miles to Rivendell: 210.95