L and I rescued a little kitty several months ago. Did we need more cats in our life? Absolutely not. Yet, it was one of those situations where the greater need won out.
The poor little guy, who we named after Tiny Tim (the kid on crutches) in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, could hardly keep [...]

This was shared with me by a very good friend of mine on Facebook. It’s disturbing and disgusting to think that these people sleep in their plush multi-million dollar houses while denying and canceling needed health care.

My wonderful friend, K, sent me a petition on Facebook the other day. Now K isn’t one of these people on FB who does nothing but send out “canned” Facebook apps, so I looked at it long and hard. Also, I hold K in very high regard, so I could be 99.9% sure it wouldn’t be junk or something that would make me roll my eyes in the not-so-nice way I sometimes do.

As nuns adapt to reach their communities and live outside the reach of the Catholic Church, the Church opens investigations specifically targeting U.S. nuns. Usually visitations are only ordered when something has gone terribly wrong in an arm of the church. For example, a visitation was ordered for seminaries in the aftermath of the priest sexual-abuse scandal.

In a recent groundbreaking study, Professor Benjamin Edelman from the Harvard Business School found that 8 out of 10 states that consume the most online pornography also voted for McCain in the presidential election. It seems that red states, and those who claim high moral and family values, don’t practice what they preach. Surprise. Surprise… 
The most [...]

One of the biggest things that the anti-marriage equality folks say about the gay community is that we are sore losers. Why? Because there are organized protests all over the states. Because the ACLU filed one law suit questioning the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Because there is a movement to file individual complaints [...]

Focus on the Family, is a Colorado based Evangelical organization that focuses on such socially conservative issues as education, gambling, sexual identity, abstinence, bioethics and marriage (listed just above pornography). They see their primary purpose of saving everyone through spreading the word of Jesus, primarily door to door, the old fashioned Fuller Brush way. “Saving” [...]