slacktivist talks about the Abominable Shellfish answering the question, “Why some Christians hate gays but love bacon?”.
Read it and then think about President Bush saying, “I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn?t do my job.”.
Links To Make You Think
Despotism (Archive.org): A movie shown to school children soon after WWII to explain what is Despotism and how to judge any society on a scale between Democracy and it. Simple, short (11 minutes) and frightening. After seeing, ask yourself, where do you think we are?
my former battery-mate (Tony Pierce): One of the most in your face weblogs you can find, Tony hits Mr. Bush on what it means to be a Christian.
Bill Moyers on democracy excrutiate (Metafilter): Great discussion on democracy, faith and the real threats to both. Your average fundamentalist’s head will explode.
A Cloud Over Civilisation (Guardian): on Corporate power and it’s force in policy: via rc3.org.
Using Prepared Statements In MySQL
Shelley Powers shares how to get started using MySQL with prepare statements and why you would want to do so.
McCain: Same-sex marriage ban is un-Republican
Damn straight. McCain lays it down (CNN).
The Republican party of today is not the Republican party as I understood it to be: The party to keep the government off our backs and that attempts to govern the least. No, the Republican party of today is not only on our backs, but in our libraries, schools, credit card statements, and bedrooms.
Try Roller, It’s Easy
It is easy. If your’re writing/developing/investigating using a weblogging CMS,
there is just no excuse not to try it.
PHP 5.0 Is Out
Read more about it at php.net.
Involver
Music For America launches Involver: A national concert series to encourage voter registration and youth involvement in politics.
Paper Wars
A fun little flash annimation. via Rogi.
Nationwide “Computer Ate My Vote” Day of Action
Take part today to show you want action taken to ensure your vote gets counted the way you want it to. I will be at the JFK Plaza (Love Park) event.
People Are More Important Than Ideas And Principles
Read “Even The Rich Woman”, a dramatized version of Jesus, Judas, and the anointing at Bethany. As slacktivist says, “It’s about wealth, poverty, generosity, justice and, to borrow a phrase from Dallas Willard, how it’s important to try to do the right thing without hurting anybody.” Reading this makes me think I think I take too much after Judas.