Where are all the xxxxx bloggers?

Link: Bitch. Ph.D.: Where are all the male academic bloggers?. 

I only just found it.  Hysterical.  In a good way.

Someone out there in Blogland postulated that the old ‘where are all the women bloggers?’ meme gets rolled out every three months without fail.  I would expand on that, and postulate a variant:  The question of "Where are all the [not of my own personal ethnic-cultural-gender identity] X bloggers?" arises monthly, with ethnicity, culture, and gender identifiers alternately cycling over a three month course. 

It’s just that our blogging & linkage is so incestuous, we never notice.

Anyone else?

Mwaha

Guess who got a digital camera for Xmas? 

These are the goldfish in my office.  

Don’t ask me what their names are – they’ve never told me.  They’re two very fat & sassy fantails.  I cleverly call them "fishy" & "fishie" – or, collectively, "fishies", "fatties", or "piggie-pigs".  They seem to recognize those as terms of endearment.  Which they are.

Fishblogging.  Ha!  Take THAT, Kevin.

Attention: Comic Fans

You comic-fan types out there on the internets really ought to check out my friend Chris Wisnia’s Tabloia.  He’s clever & wonderfully talented.  Also, ONE HELLUVA GOOD GUY.  Issue #574 (#3) is available now.  Order it from your fave comix supplier or bully your local shop into carrying it.

And the fact that I’m NOT particularly comics-oriented (not since my brief crush on Daredevil back in ‘89) should clue you in that this is really an extraordinary piece of work.  That, or I’m shilling for a pal who is already creating a buzz without my help.  Either way, check it out & tell your friends.  Word of mouth is what it’s all about.

Argh.

Hey, kids!  Guess who’s got tendonitis in her right wrist?  And guess who’s very, very right-handed?  And guess who’s typing one-handed right now?  And guess who’s got a case of the flu to top it all off like the cherry on an ice cream sundae? 

Oh, I’ll bet you’ve guessed it by now.  Don’t blow up anything while I’m gone.  And if I don’t get back for a while, Merry Christmas (if that’s your celebration), Happy Hanukkah (if that was your celebration, & apologies for the belated wishes), and Happy Solstice (if that’s your celebration)!

Rapture & Ecology

Bill Moyers:  Battlefield Earth

Remember James Watt, President Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn’t know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the bible is literally true – one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index. That’s right – the rapture index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in America today are the twelve volumes of the left-behind series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious right warrior, Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans.

——————————————[snip]—————————————

The last time I Googled it, the rapture index stood at 144 – just one point below the critical threshold when the whole thing will blow, the son of god will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire.

So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist, Glenn Scherer – ‘the road to environmental apocalypse. Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed – even hastened – as a sign of the coming apocalypse.

The Rapture Index when I checked it this morning:  155. 

I do not believe God put us on this Earth only to destroy it & separate the Sinners from the Saved.  Why do so many people of faith believe in something based so much in fear of God and rejection by God? 

Rapture & Ecology

Bill Moyers:  Battlefield Earth

Remember James Watt, President Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior? My favorite online environmental journal, the ever engaging Grist, reminded us recently of how James Watt told the U.S. Congress that protecting natural resources was unimportant in light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ. In public testimony he said, "after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back."

Beltway elites snickered. The press corps didn’t know what he was talking about. But James Watt was serious. So were his compatriots out across the country. They are the people who believe the bible is literally true – one-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup poll is accurate. In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index. That’s right – the rapture index. Google it and you will find that the best-selling books in America today are the twelve volumes of the left-behind series written by the Christian fundamentalist and religious right warrior, Timothy LaHaye. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans.

——————————————[snip]—————————————

The last time I Googled it, the rapture index stood at 144 – just one point below the critical threshold when the whole thing will blow, the son of god will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire.

So what does this mean for public policy and the environment? Go to Grist to read a remarkable work of reporting by the journalist, Glenn Scherer – ‘the road to environmental apocalypse. Read it and you will see how millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed – even hastened – as a sign of the coming apocalypse.

The Rapture Index when I checked it this morning:  155. 

I do not believe God put us on this Earth only to destroy it & separate the Sinners from the Saved.  Why do so many people of faith believe in something based so much in fear of God and rejection by God? 

Ssssnickerrrrr

Zing!

Link: Electrolite: President Sissy..

We have a President who’s afraid of being heckled. By Canadians.

No Way!

Too lovely for words, Jeff.

But you’ve been keeping secrets from us, haven’t you?