BurningbirdI was asked in comments associated with the post on Judge Dierker, what’s the harm in someone saying something offensive.
Read the original story in the Riverfront Times about the woman and the case that forms the basis for the first chapter in Judge Dierker’s book.
Then tell me: do you see harm?
Oh. What a surprise. John Edwards is running for President. And he’s grabbing the Kids of the Kluetrain for all our good internet-driven fund raising.
Wow. Couldn’t have seen that one coming.
While most of us were agog about the recent filming of the giant squid, in Australia on Monday comes announcements of many marine discoveries in the last year. Among them are shrimp similar to ones extinct 50 million years ago, a new beaked squid, and giant lobsters.
I already mentioned my favorite, the Yeti crab.
It’s unfortunate that through habitat destruction and global warming, we’re killing off as many species, as we’re discovering.
What a wonderful post: Bad Astronomy comes out with his Top Ten Astronomy images of 2006, complete with stories. I had completely missed the “Painting the Eclipse” photo, and am so glad Phil Plait has not. Wonderful.
We have robots on Mars! Humans are so smart.
Don at Hands in the Dirt writes:
For Christians, I think that the last thing called for in this Christmas season is phony magic, the wishful making upright of all that is turned over, either personal or in the larger world. Or the cloying fake holiday spirit of Coke ads (you know that the polar bears probably ate the penguins after the bottle was shared with the young cub) and all the other commercial holiday music/decorations/sales aimed at putting us all in greater debt or making us much heavier in weight.
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What is needed is what is always needed, an honest reflection of who we are and the mess we humans are in. In other words, a time for humility and quiet.
Not just Christians: we could all do with a little humility, and a little quiet.