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MoF Classic: OC Pilgrimage, Station 02: OC Friends Meeting.

November 9th, 2009 · by John · 7 Comments

Because I’m focusing on NaNoWriMo and writing 50,000 words of fiction this month, I thought I’d pull up a few posts from the archives. This particular post was written about 3.5 years ago and was part of my OC Pilgrimage series, where I attended various churches and visited religious sites in Orange County and reported [...]

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Tags: Classic · OC Pilgrimage · Quakerism

Music Monday: Blogs Require Thick Skins

April 20th, 2009 · by xJane · 4 Comments

One of the things I love about MoF is that we’re a pretty small community and don’t attract a lot of trolls. This is not to say we never attract trolls, but when we do, it’s a surprise. There are many sites whose comments I simply don’t read because I don’t want to deal with [...]

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Tags: Art · Blogging · Classic · Creativity. · Dialog · Ethics · Humor · Meme · Music · Music Monday · Pop Culture · Satire · Social Web · Society · Video · Web 2.0

Spark: Conservatives are More Likely to Consume Porn

March 3rd, 2009 · by xJane · 16 Comments

Late to the party on this one, I know, sorry. It turns out that conservative (read: religious) states have the highest porn rates in the country. Probably because they’re not allowed to have deviant (read: fun) sex at home.
Meanwhile, people living in enlightened areas of the country have other outlets for their sexual urges, since [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Christianity · Church and State · Classic · Culture Jamming · Ethics · Feminism · Getting over Religion · Humor · News · Politics · Pop Culture · Religion · Science · Sexuality · Social Hacking · Society · Spark

Spark: the Truth

January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 1 Comment

This is absolutely priceless. A comic & blog post about Cheney (who, incidentally, “is as ancient as he is evil and he is large amounts of both.”).

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Tags: Art · Classic · Comics · Current Events · Humor · Politics · Pop Culture · Society · Spark

Spark: Time Machine

October 3rd, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

dunno how long this will be up, but right now, you can Google stuff in 2001: it’s like a window to the past (most of the links are dead, so you’re really searching Google’s cache, but still fun
via

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Tags: Classic · Current Events · Gadgets · Links · Media and Design · News · Pop Culture · Science · Spark · Web 2.0

On Palin: Sexism from Her Own Party

October 1st, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

Cannot. Wait. For. The. Debate.

via.

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Tags: Classic · Current Events · Dialog · Doubt · Feminism · Gender · Video

Spark: We Haven’t Linked to Cracked.com in a While

September 19th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments

So here you go: “Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace). Including such gems as
To those to of you who haven’t read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott card, warning: two spoilers follow.
Spoiler 1: Your childhood was incomplete.
and
You’ve spent your life imagining diverse races and cultures, and doing a [...]

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Spark: from the “heh” files

September 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 10 Comments

I know I’m not the only one to whom this has occurred before, but the Pope thinks secularists are too materialistic (unlike the Church, of course). Some great comments on this over at Pharyngula.

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Tags: Art · Atheism · Belief · Charities · Christianity · Church and State · Classic · Consumerism · Current Events · Doubt · Ethics · Fantasy · Getting over Religion · Justice · Politics · Religion · Simplicity · Skeptic · Society · Spark

Sunday Morning Video Lineup

August 3rd, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

A vid take on MoF’s Sparks:
First up, Stuart Shepard, who I’d not heard of before today but is apparently a member of Focus on the Family’s activism arm, is encouraging everyone to encourage his God to rain on Obama’s acceptance speech. Which seems to me to be incredibly petty: pray for peace? pray for a [...]

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Spark: Proselytizing Hits Home

July 15th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

Or, When Muslims Attack (with free copies of the Koran!).
Sorry I’ve been AWOL recently, I’m in the process of moving. I now have internet (yay!1!) but now need to unpack all the boxes of stuff. Then, I promise, real posts.

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Tags: Activism · Belief · Christianity · Classic · Dialog · Fiction · Getting over Religion · Humor · Islam · Links · Religion · Spark