Garry's New Favorite Song

Another BP Disaster. These Poor Folks Need Their Lives Back.

Thanks to Bruce.

Don't Make Boudica Angry. You Wouldn't Like Her When She's Angry.

Boudica "slaughtered a Roman army. She torched Londinium, leaving a charred layer almost half a meter thick that can still be traced under modern London. According to the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, her army killed as many as 70,000 civilians in Londinium, Verulamium and Camulodunum, rushing 'to cut throats, hang, burn, and crucify. . . .Why was she so angry?"  See,  Boudica: Celtic War Queen Who Challenged Rome
Thanks to Warrior Queens Melissa & Lainie.

Melissa:

I found this version done in a lower range.  I hope it saves lives.  In any event, you and Boudica should like the images.

Sexism & Celibacy

"I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world. At best, they say that her power was of Satan. Or else they clothe her in the blue robe of the Lady of Nazareth - who indeed had power in her way, too - and say that she was ever virgin. But what can a virgin know of the sorrows and travail of mankind?"-Morgan le Fay as recorded in The Mists of Avalon.

The Moral Messengers of Our Time-Doyle & Debbie

Thanks to Ken

Makin Figure Eights Through the Pearly Gates

BP Claims Gulf Spill is Act of God.

In an effort to avoid lawsuits from apocalypse-crazy Christian fundamentalists along the Gulf Coast, BP is now claiming the fiasco was caused by the Lord. More specifically, His quick-tempered décor! (Revelation 11:4-6)

Springdale in an Uproar. River City says "Thank God for Springdale."

Free Thinkers have caused panic in Springdale, but joy to the perennial most evil River City.  The Springdale Rotary club sang If You Don't Love Jesus, Go To Hell, at their weekly meeting yesterday. A Springdale city official claimed that there hasn't been an atheist spotted in the town since 1959 when a bunch of Baha''is were tarred, feathered, and run out of town.  Local clergyman Ronnie Floyd took it all in stride. "Free!? I reckon you get what you pay for," said Floyd with a grin.

Thanks for Trying, Pope John.

Pope John XXIII left us 47 years ago this month. He convened the Second Vatican Council to get the Church out of the dark ages and to bring us all together.  John Paul II & Benedict XVI have not been so enlightened.  "One crucial principle so prominent in the council's thinking, 'collegiality' in making decisions on the future of the church, has been set aside during both John Paul II's and Benedict's pontificates.

All this has happened while the Vatican has consistently spoken of its faithfulness to the principles of Vatican II. There have been two ways of opposing those principles: one to express opposition openly as some ultra-conservatives have done, the other to rewrite Vatican II's history, as curia officials and their admirers have been doing over the last quarter-century and more. This is what Our Lady of Belém was treated to last week. Well, she's full of grace, so I expect she smiled." Vatican II: Benedict rewrites history- At a speech in Portugal Pope Benedict gave us a rare insight into his feelings about the second Vatican council. By Diarmaid MacCulloch
I miss Tom Lehrer too.  Take it away Tom.

Best Wishes and Congratulations.

Thanks to Rick.

Bruise Circa 2003 - June 1, 2010

Bruise was huge and fearsome looking before he got sick. Both before and after, he was a kind,  gentle soul.  He would let even 2 year olds get in his face and pet him even if they rubbed his fur the wrong way.  We'll miss you buddy.  Thanks to the Cat Clinic for the good care they gave him.  Bruise asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Outback Cat House Rescue, Rogers, Ar. 72756. Bruise, please forgive Anon 11:36 who claims "The cat is the devils pet . . ." as you did those who mistreated and abandoned you. The unenlightened have thought this way for years.  Cats became suspicious because, unlike dogs, they don’t behave subserviently toward humans. The ignorant think this violates “the biblical view that humans should have dominion over animals. Also, cats were very active at night and engaged in loud, raucous mating rituals. . . .  to the superstitious . . .cats were practicing supernatural powers and witchcraft. Most accused witches were older peasant women who lived alone, often keeping cats as pets for companionship. This guilt by association meant that roughly a million cats were burned at the stake, along with their owners, on suspicion of being witches.  . . . Pope Gregory IX (1145-1241) declared that a sect . . .had been caught worshiping the devil [who] had appeared in the form of a black cat. Cats became the official symbol of heresy . . .. Anyone who showed any compassion or feeling for a cat came under the church's suspicion. By the beginning of the fourteenth century, Europe's cat population had been severely depleted. . . . In 1347 the bubonic plague swept across Europe. . . .the Black Death, killed twenty-five million people . . . in only three years. . . . the plague was being spread to humans by fleas on infected rodents. . . . Centuries of cat slaughter had allowed the rodent population to surge out of control.”
See, The History of Human-Animal Interaction - The Medieval Period.