The polls opened at 6AM here in west suburban Joliet IL; I was voter #100 shortly after 7. There was about a five-minute wait, nothing extreme. Usually there's no wait at all, though.
That "Spiritual Warfare" story sounds like something out of the end of Declare, doesn't it? These people are scary.
Everyone in NYC OK after the crane fall?
David @ #53: Nope, it was Abraham who argued with G-d for Sodom & Gomorrah--see Genesis 18:16-32.
#107 Terry Karney: But it's a special case.
You would say that, wouldn't you?
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#39 Me: ...and to the villain...
Oops, that should've been:
"...and to [SPOILER] the villain...
#34 TexAnne: I thought To Reign in Hell was also sf.
I don't think so, although I thought it owed a lot in tone to Zelazny's Lord of Light (which is sf).
#30 Steve Buchheit: I just like these a little more.
I'm conflicted about TRiH. It's brilliant. It's also like watching a slow-motion train wreck--I loved reading it, but I'll probably never read it again; the twin urges to sit the main characters down and thwap them upside the head a few times, and to the villain are too strong. Still, there are some great lines in it--"Get thee behind me, my lord!"
#649 BC(S2M): At least to me, an outside observer, they seem to be attempting to bring in large numbers of 3rd world citizens to the Church, and to bring up priests from those countries into the bishopric and the College of Cardinals, in the hope that these people will be strongly fundamentalist in their doctrine, and outweigh the opinions of Europeans and Americans.
As an insider observer, that behavior looks more to me as though it's geared towards ameliorating the shortage of priests w/o opening the priesthood to women and allowing priests to marry [1]. In the six or so years that I've been at my current parish, we've had one Filipino diocesan priest out of six--but we've also had another Filipino and a Nigerian staying at our parish while they worked on their doctorates, and one of the six diocesans is a former Lutheran minister and is married. (Two of the others are second-career priests--former farmers.) My father-in-law's parish in central Wisconsin had a 50% share in an East Indian priest, and otherwise wouldn't have had a priest at all. In the US, the ordination rate independent of imports is below replacement, so the Church pretty-much has to go elsewhere if it wants to maintain theintegrity of its Peculiar Institutionpriesthood as it's been.
[1] And God says, "What were you waiting for? I sent you all these married men & women!"
Bill @ #97:
ISTR Godwin's Law appearing for the first time on Usenet, on misc.legal, something like 1987 or 1988. Mike was one of the more prolific posters there when I was following it.
Serge (#29):
...Le Guin's The Latte of Heaven...
Wasn't that the story about the canonization of Howard Schultz?
Howard Pierce @ #423:
That isn't de Maupassant's "The Horla," is it? It's been a while since I read it.
j0hn: o hai c deddog
j0hn: wrong k1nd f1sh13s 4 me
j0hn: pr0n l4d33?
j0hn: b4d l4d33 u let ur kn1ck3rz down
j0hn: i b 3ggd00d
p4ul: w00t!
j0hn: they b 3ggd00dz
p4ul: w00t!
j0hn: i b LOLRUS!!11!! gggj!!11!!
JESR (#84 & #85):
James Nicoll,
I'm not sure what you think putting aitches in my name accomplishes, but it's not particularrly effective.
You spelled his name right this time (i.e., w/o an extraneous aitch), so it seems to have had the effect he wanted.
y (#187):
Stat is a modern abbreviation for Latin statim...
I used to work with a bunch of med techs who'd spent time in hospital labs, and they told me that "stat" was an acronym for soonest turn-around time. It sounds like that's a backronym, though.
Serge (#108):
Is there a recording of that [Fusion Girl] somewhere on the internet?
Not that I know of, but you could ask him. The lyrics are out there, though.
Chris Gerrib (#78):
I eat lunch every Tuesday at Argonne National Labs (nuclear weapons research facility)
One correction: as it happens, I eat lunch every weekday at Argonne (usually in my office), and we're not a nuclear weapons research facility [1]. All of the nuke programs we have here are support for the civilian nuclear power industry, spent fuel reprocessing, nonproliferation, and like that.
[1] However, I was looking through the inventory for one of the storage areas here a couple of months ago, and was impressed to discover that we still have a few pieces of CP-1 on-site [2].
[2] Cue Bill Higgins singing "Fusion Girl."
#44: It was apparently named after the founder, although there are apparently some other associations between Spartans and confections.
Hmph. I should've read today's Rude Pundit before I posted.
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