peace on earth

Heaven on Earth, we need it now
I’m sick of all of this hanging around
Sick of sorrow, sick of the pain
I’m sick of hearing again and again
That there’s gonna be peace on Earth
Where I grew up there weren’t many trees
Where there was we’d tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what [...]

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hmm

Side note.
It provokes me how few men will be or remain friends after they realize there is no hope for more.   Are we only valuable for our sexuality?  Of course the proper answer is “no” but the answer lived out is most emphatically “yes.” 
Of course, I’m writing from a woman’s perspective, and were I male, I might [...]

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ramblings

I had four hours of sleep last night so I came home from work quite tired…just finished watching “North Country” which was an amazing, amazing film inspired by the true story of women mine workers who fought a class-action sexual harrassment lawsuit and won. Charlize Theron starred, and as always, she was fabulous. [...]

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this, this…is “christmas”

He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him
He was despised and forsaken of men
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised and we did not esteem Him.
Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our [...]

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denying history?

I ran into a college student last night who’s pursuing neuroscience as an undergraduate – he wants to do an MRI on me for a study he’s doing, and from there, we started talking. He was in our mixed group of friends and acquaintances who went to see Over the Rhine, and somehow, he found [...]

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hardwired

If I were the last man on the planet to think so, I would want the honor of saying that no woman should go before me into combat to defend my country. A man who endorses women in combat is not pro-woman; he’s a wimp. He should be ashamed. For most of history, in most [...]

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question

What is marriage?
(Yes, Nora, there I go again, asking loaded questions. ;)

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grieved

BALTIMORE – A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict against a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality.
Albert Snyder sued the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of [...]

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question of the morning:

What makes a good leader?

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utterly inane: putting our middle school girls on the pill

I was enraged to hear this morning on the way to work that a middle school in Maine is giving out birth control pills and patches to their students. Albeit the parents must sign a permission slip in order for the students to receive the prescription drugs, and thus there is some parental involvement, [...]

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regulation

Question posed on the radio this morning: Should elderly drivers at a specific age have their driver’s licenses revoked?
Or should there be more vigorous testing after a certain age? How do you monitor one’s ability to drive safely without encroaching upon the freedom and sense of autonomy of adults?
At what point does the government have [...]

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