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Rocket City Bloggers on passion

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Feb 142012

I am part of a nascent group called the Rocket City Bloggers. We meet monthly for talk and good times, and we also do a monthly blog carnival, which I am hosting this month. The theme is passion, and we have five participants:

Carol wrote of her passion for fashion—an intellectual and substantive one, she is careful to note.
Amanda offered a passionate culinary window into how she and her husband fell in love.
Harold took a sustained look at passion for online writing.
Kristin waxed passionately on Disney addiction (and I’m about to pull the trigger on DisneyWorld plans, so I do appreciate it!).
Heather wrote of things that sustain her passion for her husband.

I tend to equate passion with youth, and to some degree irrationality. Couple such with my longstanding feelings on marital fidelity, and I had a hard time conceiving a post that didn’t get serious pretty quickly. As usual, my blogging colleagues did very well. Enjoy.

The pre-post on the current abortion rage

Annoyances, Current Events, Family, History, Liberty, Politics, Religion 4 Responses »

Feb 102012

A couple of you have asked me when I’m going to write about Planned Parenthood, Komen, Catholics, insurance, and so forth.

I don’t know. Sometime. I want to. It’s too big for the time I usually give myself for a post, and I haven’t figured out to my satisfaction how to break it down into multiple sessions yet. I’m thinking about it, though.

I haven’t had much to say about abortion here. I’ve occasionally mentioned in some context or another that I have a qualified pro-choice position. Though some aspects of it have tacked steadily right for several years, I don’t anticipate that ever changing.

However, you should interpret such neither as approval of the militant left’s rhetoric on the topic nor any sort of trivialization of the practical and emotional impacts of this family of “procedures.”

I’m extremely disappointed in the events of the past couple of weeks. I’m trying to channel that emotion productively. Shrieking is easy. I don’t want to, and I’m trying not to.

Stay tuned.

Responding to four peeing Marines

Annoyances, Current Events, History, Liberty, Politics 3 Responses »

Jan 132012

It appears very much as if several soldiers recently urinated on some bodies, and video-recorded themselves doing so. It also appears very much as if this occurred in Afghanistan, these soldiers are U.S. Marines, and the bodies are Taliban. “It was inhuman and despicable, an unforgivable act,” said Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. (Good to [...]

In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows

Family, History, Leisure, Religion 2 Responses »

Dec 312011

We are members of the Huntsville Museum of Art, though I visit far too infrequently. Sometime before Christmas, Lea said something to me about a traveling exhibit there. Now she probably explained the whole thing to me, but what I carried forward from it was “stained glass.” So she said something about wanting to go [...]

Tossing political grenades

Annoyances, Current Events, History, Liberty, Politics 4 Responses »

Dec 202011

Have a few. Find one on the basis of which you can call me a great American or a horrible SOB, then do so: Did we have this many debates last time? I’m kind of glad that stage is over. I’m ready for my dripping contempt of Barack Obama to have a face. The correct [...]