Theology for the tragedy of unjust and unwarranted violence Saint Paul tells us just this, “mourn with those who mourn, rejoice with those who rejoiceâ€. It is in bearing one another’s heartache that we are moved towards justice and compassion. But if in the midst of suffering and grief we emerge unchanged, clothed not in resurrected newness, then we’ve failed Continue Reading
This report , as I watched it play out, seems a little muddled. I went to add this comment in their comment area, but it had too many characters, so I am bringing it over to the blog. this report got me to retweet it, just because it was Fox news being caught red-handed in distortion AGAIN. But the entire Continue Reading
Doc Searls and his frequent insight into the sociology/business of the Web: Let’s face it: search engines are excellent kluges, invented to deal with a flaw in the Web’s original design: the lack of an easy way to make sense of its many directory paths. Since everything to the right of the first single / in every URL comprises a Continue Reading
Bill O’Reilly continues to deride DailyKOS about COMMENTS on that blog. COMMENTS, of which there are more than 100 on nearly every post, at least 3 or 4 times a day. The deception of this guy just sickens me (not so much that he is so sick, but because he leads so many people astray with his “balance”. He epitomizes Continue Reading
A Pew Research report (behind a firewall here, but summarized below) Pew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Colbert Report. They tied with regular readers of major newspapers in the top spot — with 54% of them getting Continue Reading