Category: Politics

Don’t mess with WeatherGirl’s mints…

You definitely should check out WeatherGirl‘s piece on “The U.S. Patriot Act, protecting Americans from ROTH-IRA investing Brits and Extra Strong Mints”. In my wildly biased opinion, I think it’s her best piece of blogging to date!

Another open mic night tomorrow, and I think Sub-Evil Boy is going to join me in song and merriment, which should be fun. Jon H. and I practiced our nifty duet this afternoon, and it’s sounding quite good (esp. given that we hadn’t practiced in a month). I’m rather excited.

WeatherGirl and I were at a meeting of concerned community members last night regarding the $620K deficit the Morris school system is working to deal with (see MorrisQualitySchools.org) that ran some three hours. I think that we’ll be able to pass a levy that will be a big help in the long run, and help soften (but not eliminate) the short term blow. There’s a lot of work to still be done, though.

Currently listening to: “Yeah” from Bob Drake‘s weird (in the best possible way) new album The shunned country. Cool concept, but I haven’t quite made up my mind about the whole thing, yet.

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You should definitely check out the UCC ad

In wandering around the web today I stumbled across several blogs that had banner ads promoting a United Church of Christ (UCC) ad that NBC and CBS have refused to air. I ignored it the first few times (hard to imagine why I’d care about some church’s ad), but finally the repetition (in contexts I respected) convinced me to give it a click. I’m glad I did, because it’s quite excellent and I highly recommend it.

The ad is a wonderfully effective comment on the failure of many U.S. churches to be inclusive of those different from their “standard” member, and as such must be pretty uncomfortable for the “establishment”. But to have NBC and CBS refuse outright to air the ad is pretty remarkable. Presumably the “problem” is in significant part our national homophobia. One couple turned away from the “other” church is a pair of men holding hands, and one couple featured in the inclusive community at the end is a pair of women.

Head over to AccessibleAirwaves.org to see the ad and learn more. There’s some really interesting material there, including a nice blog entry on the role of blogs in helping the UCC get their message out when the networks won’t.

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