Mupdatage

I had to take my baby(The Prius) into the shop all day today. There was a defect in the steering column (or something to that affect--with me it's "blah blah blah car parts blah blah"), and it was also time for my 30,000 mile service. 18 months and 30,000 miles. Not bad.

Anyway, they gave me a free rental. A dadgum Toyota Corolla. Corollas are great cars, but man, the Prius is far more comfy. I wish they would give me a comparable car for the day instead of giving me the low end rental. Foo.

But, it's transportation, and that's cool.

The fact that an article was written that features Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston, Osama bin Laden and the phrase "sex slave" is a greater horror than anything else I care to imagine.

Tagged by chanharrison

Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects and pick out five quotes that best suit your life as it is now:
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)


The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Anyone can participate in this one if they want to.

Haven't you been craving a snack bar with...

Bacon, tang, peanut butter and corn syrup?

Sure you have.

They know you have.

Product Plug!

Chapped lips?

Perhaps this is what your lips crave....

Saints Du Jour: Saint Symphorian

Here's a little story about a Christian named Symphorian.

Omer Englebert writes:
"Here and there among the people, the Christians were at that time the object of ridiculous slanders and the most childish vexations. They were driven from the markets and the public baths. They were refused the hire of lodgings, to say nothing of oft being put to death under pretence of having disturbed the public peace."

So, we have Symphorian, who, as we are about to see, was an object of ridiculous slanders, childish vexations, and being put to death under the pretence of having disturbed the public peace.

How? Well, like any intelligent person living in a society not open to diverse opinions, he publicly mocked the mother of the gods. Not that I condone curtailing free speech, but I wouldn't call this a pretence of disturbing the public peace."


When taken into custody and put before the magistrate, he did what any intelligent person before people who determine whether he lives or dies, he said what loosely translates to, "Yeah, I mocked the mother of the gods. Furthermore, the Gods of the Empire can suck my left nut. Christ rules and Roman Gods drool! "

Or something like that.

The Romans, being far seeing, and knowing that when the Christians would rise to power they would do similar tactics, figured it best to get their licks in now and behead folks like this for dissin' their deities.

Before he was beheaded, he saw his mother in the distance. She did what most mothers do with their sons who are about to headectomy; she said farewell and reminded him not to cry like a baby before he was beheaded. I believe the words Omer chose were not to "flinch in the face of death".

Thank goodness they upped the standards for being a Saint. If this standard persisted we would run the risk of someone like Fred Phelps being canonized.