This is a guest post from CatGirl. It’s a write up of her experience so far at the FCNL Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. I plan on writing up something later–maybe Monday. She’s much more on the ball than I am! You can follow my twitter feed, as I try to tweet the conference. [...]

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I’m generally supportive of President Obama, and I am definitely in favor of universal health coverage for Americans. But I’m not sure I agree with him when he says:
Second, we’ve estimated that most of this plan can be paid for by finding savings within the existing health care system, a system that is currently full [...]

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“On The Pier” (taken on 9/11/01) is Creative Commons licensed by *Hiro.
July 2nd, 2001 is Mind on Fire’s birthday. The birthing process was painful, since I hand-coded the site and put much more effort into the design and scripty goodness than I do now. Here’s kind of what it looked like on July 23rd [...]

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I’ve seen a lot of political debate recently on FaceBook. Sometimes the discussion is civil and even enlightening, but more often than not it begins with unconsidered slogans and degenerates into ad hominem attacks. (I don’t have problems with slogans and witticisms as a starting point, but people need to be ready to defend or [...]

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Discrimination against gays persists, democratic protests are trampled in Iran, Kim Jong Il keeps flashing the nuclear bird at the US, but all this pales in significance when compare to the most important news of last week: The White House Beer Summit:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

White House Beer Simulation

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily [...]

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I catch about one of the President’s weekly addresses each month, and half the time I’m distracted from his message by the skill of his delivery. His messages are clear, precise, and accessible. They actually make sense and sound like they’re being spoken by someone intelligent, who in turn respects your ability to reason.
I [...]

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Nationwide, Christians who refuse to provide services on the basis of gender orientation are losing legal battles.

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This is how our president defined our country yesterday. Explicitly denying that it was a “Christian nation” and explicitly stating that this fact is one of our “great strengths”.
It’s nice to be reminded of this—and by someone so high in the administration! It is vogue for politicians to exclaim “God bless America!” Whether or not [...]

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It’s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu’s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn’t keep them forever), so go catch up. It’s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long.
It’s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a country [...]

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“Gender roles see a ‘conflict’ shift in work-life balance” at USAToday. Hat tip to @unapologeticfem (site) I’m not certain that anything in there is great news, but it does seem that there is some kind of cultural change at work, which is something.

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