Something progressives, liberals and environmentalist should read.

It is my view that America has lost its commitment to reason.  The left is guided by emotion and the right by belief.  Reason resides in neither.  One can doubtless fault the following but there is a great deal of truth stated here.  Few will read it, though they may read about it, because the modern American attention span is about as broad as the wave length of blue light and we are all too busy to be bother with what is really important.  If anything does not instantly stimulate our emotions or our beliefs, as the case may be, if it requires nuanced consideration or calculation, we turn it off.  Still I commend it none the less.  (P.S. I do not claim exception.  I too skimmed parts, when I knew where he was going.  The point is to absorb and consider the argument.)

http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/2007/02/global-warming-truth-or-dare.html

I Wish I'd Said This, But Glad Portia Did Since I Didn't.

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd.

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

Portia

Thanks to Dick & his Mother.

Eureka

20-Jan 1986 John Fuller Cross, President of Bank of Eureka Springs, refused to close his bank on Martin Luther King Day, saying it would only encourage Jews, women, Mexicans and homosexuals to demand a special holiday for them, too.

20-Jan 1987 Eureka Springs Ministerial Alliance denounced “Pass the Ammunition” to be filmed at Eureka Springs, as full of nudity, sex, obscenity, perversity, drugs, vulgarity, racism and violence.

                              

From Smith's AlternativeArkansas History.

Getting the Creeps.

 See, Newt Gingrich creeping up on Mitt Romney in a creepy way by David Horsey in the Los Angeles Times

Canada for President? An Option Worth Considering.

Thanks to Linda.

So Many Good Times, So Many Good Bye's.

Take it away Lacy:

I like your record-the best to you dear.

Thinking of the World as Existing in Relation to the Mystery of God

"Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience." - Rowan Williams
Thanks to Reverend Sandi.

The Good Old Days When The Air Was Clean and Sex Was Dirty.

Apparently, it was ok to be gay but not nekkid.  “8-Jan 1954 Fort Smith radio preacher Braxton B. Sawyer claimed to have recordings of youths admitting to "immoralities" at a nudist camp at Dunn's Spring near Evansville.”  Smith's Alternative Arkansas History & Thanks to Orve.

An Albanian Anthem with Thanks to Alabama.

There she is sitting there
Out behind the smoke house in her rocking chair
She don't do nothin'
She don't say nothin'
She don't feel nothin'
She don't know nothin'
Maybe she's crazy I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so

Her papa was a midget
Her mama was a whore
Her grandad was a newsboy 'til he was eighty four
Man don't you think I know she hates me
Man don't you think I know that she's no good
If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me
I think she'd kill me if she could
Maybe she's crazy I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so

I'm not afraid of the greywolf
Who stalks through our forest at dawn
As long as I have her beside me
I have the strength to carry on

Today we will be married
And all the freaks that she knows will be there
And all the people from the village will be there
To congratulate us
I will carry her across the threshold
I will make dim the light
I will attempt to spend my love within her
But though I try with all my might
She will laugh at my mighty sword
She will laugh at my mighty sword
Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?
Lord, hep me if you will
Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know
Maybe that's why I love her so 

A Wedding In Cherokee County by Randy Newman