Nobody seems to have brought up the obvious question: are we *sure* Vox Day isn't a stringer for the Onion?
Temperance, I bow to your superior perception. (Except that Cheney is not insane, but evil.)
Jonathan, I think even Bush realizes that appointing a horse to the Senate would be redundant, seeing as how the majority is already a bunch of horses' asses.
On the Girl Scout boycott: I live in Waco. The boycott leader--whom I deliberately leave unnamed--was quoted thusly in today's fishwrap: "I want to see a complete disassociation with Planned Parenthood. I want to see Girl Scout councils back off their feminist affiliations, and from any feminist agenda they may have."
In the words of an eminent philosopher, "Oh, barf."
Point taken. I wonder how I managed to misread you the first time; sorry about that.
Speaking as an adherent of the sect in question, I confess to being deeply ambivalent about Paul--that whole "hey, girls, siddown and shaddap" thing is hard to swallow. But on the other hand, he brought along those Roman-bureaucrat skills at a time when the infant Church needed them badly. Well, maybe RLP will do a dramatized version and help me out...
Paul did meet Jesus--just not in the flesh. Remember the voice on the road to Damascus?
Laura: Will your girls get in trouble for sitting quietly at their desks and reading non-school books after they finish their work? That's what I did. I had one teacher who objected, but my parents went and tied her in rhetorical knots, and after that they all pretty much left me alone.
Anne
(an ex-Cepheid who met you once or twice)
Getting credit cards probably won't be a difficulty; just talk to your friendly neighborhood identity thief.
Teresa, I think you wrote "honor" when you meant "reputation."
Seth: Yes, that's what I meant; I left out most of the steps you made explicit. (That's what I get for skipping breakfast in favor of playing on the Web.) My unstated rant had to do with the Renaissance antifeminist hysteria of which witch hunts were a symptom.
Nancy: I think their only "ulterior motive" is that They Know The Truth, and it's their bounden duty to protect the rest of us from Eeeeevil.
I've never heard that Christians weren't vulnerable to magic, exactly. It might be a variant of the belief that baptism protects Christians from harm, and that faith protects sinners from Satan. (See the latish-medieval _Merlin the Prophet_ for more. Rip-roarin' theology there.)
"Malleus maleficarum" does mean "Hammer of evildoers." But "maleficarum" is the _feminine_ form, and that's why it's usually translated "witches." (Insert your own sociopolitical rant here. I've got to go get ready for church.)
Update: According to today's Houston Chronicle, the young man in question has already lost his replacement job. I don't have it in front of me, but I think he might have lasted a week. The young woman apparently forwarded it to people she knew in Washington, and that's how it got to the reporters. (Speaking as one who's been dumped almost as spectacularly, I don't blame her a bit for telling her friends.)
Xopher, me too! I was taking my graduate pedagogy class at the time, and we did a fair amount of giggling at it. I mean, if you don't have normal syntax, how come you get to use prepositions and conjunctions? But I guess "Dharmak Jalal Tanagra walls" doesn't have the same exotic alien flavor. It's also an excellent example of how _not_ to teach a foreign language. Endangering your students' lives can be counterproductive.
My first thought was that Wagner was the favorite composer of that guy I can't mention without bringing in Godwin's Law.
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