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Interesting analysis of the biblical views on homosexuality. I disagree with some of the interpretations they put on some of the verses (I don't think there's much 'tension' on the issue of female ministry, for example), but overall this is very representative of my views on the issue.

Interesting bit about the citation for the medal Kerry got that the Navy has never given…

Margaret Thatcher's son has gone from playing a punk in Star Trek 4 to attempting to overthrow the government in a small African country.
I can't figure out whether or not this marks an improvement…

…Those crazy, crazy Russians…

You wonder why it took them 60 years to decide they needed to do something about this.

Quote from today's issue of the Federalist Patriot:
“Kerry gave a big speech last week about how his faith is so 'important' to him. He announced that his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3. Of course, the speech writer meant John 3:16, but nobody in the Kerry camp was familiar enough with Scripture to catch the error. Fittingly, John 16:3 says, “And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.” “

I've been trying (unsuccessfully, so far) to install Windows XP on my sister's computer. I've had to sit there and watch the installer tell of the wonderful benefits of using XP immediately before locking up (presumably because the computer knows what lies it's telling and shuts it off). The packaging with XP tries to find adjectives that describe what they think of XP that have the letters 'x' and 'p' in them; example:
“eXPerience:”
followed by a list of what XP would purportedly do if the user ever managed to get it installed. I have been cleaning the house while the installer crashed the last two times before I gave up on it, and have been coming up with my own phrases to eXPound upon and more accurately describe this ineXPlicably awful operating system…
eXPensive
eXPansive
eXPlodes when you try to install it
should be eXPorted to countries we don't like (including any eXPatriates there)
assumes your computer is eXPendable
eXPands the definition of 'dysfunctional'
eXPect the worst
definitely not eXPedient
acts like an eXPeriment of an ineXPert programmer
Bill Gates should perform eXPiation for making the computer eXPire
someone should write an eXPose on this eXPloitation of the eXPonential gullibility of the buying public
my brief eXPosure to this program has made me eXPostulate at length to eXPress my urge to eXPunge this foul piece of software (perhaps by eXPropriation of every single copy) from the computers of everyone we like. (Terrorists can keep it; we'd rather have their computers crash than our airliners.) Maybe we should throw all of the install disks onto an eXPressway.

There. I feel better now. But trying to make this work has certainly raised quite a few eXPletives from me, let me assure you.

Good editorial on the media's unwillingness to cover the Cambodia story in particular, and the truth about Kerry's four months and eleven days in Vietnam in general.

This bear would fit right in at my school…

Succinct wrapup of what we know thus far about Kerry's holiday in Cambodia.