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Much of my sleep this morning involves being vaguely aware that Maximus, my blind yet affectionate cat, was crawling all over my head in order to find a way to get in my face and cuddle me.

Last night Sascha wanted some love time and fell asleep cradled in my left arm. He started to dream and twitch. That was rather cute, in the left arm numbing sort of way.

Kickin' it in the Salon

Keep an eye on the MTBE ban.

There is something to be said about why democracy won't quite work as smoothly in other nations. Especially in countries like Iraq, where many groups take too much stock in religion driving government.

What price tax cuts for a booming economy?

For those who don't get Bill Maher's blog, here's a story about a shortage of armor and equipment for our soliders in Iraq.

I wonder if the amount of money those family members saved in tax cuts equaled what they had to spend on buying equipment for their soldiers.

"There had been abuse in my family. But it was mostly musical in nature."

One of the things that has always amazed me about staunch religious supporters is that they believe, without question, that the Bible is the world of God.

However, it was written and translated and deciphered over thousands of years. So much can be misinterpretted, left out, or mistaken.

God him or herself doesn't publish the translations directly, but through humans.

Now since when have humans been noted for consistent, spot-on communication? Hells bells. People can read the same news reports, live in the same neighborhood, and still have different opinions about what's going on around them.

And between the time Jesus walked this earth and the time we started publishing Bibles for mass distribution, we had the Dark Ages, where any number of documents could have been burned. One of them being a whole book of retractions. God could have said:

"I've changed my mind. I was drunk when I rattled off Leviticus. I was hung over, too. Hence all the 'vomiting from the earth' references. It's not so bad, a man laying down with another man. It's just not nearly as hot as two women, but the Lord digresses. Really, just be good for each other, and all love is good. Except fornicating with livestock. That's just a bad idea."

It could happen.

Mined from imlac

He found this link of a delightful Jerry Springer-meets-philosophy show. Priceless.