Rainbow Shelf in the New Yorker Online, originally uploaded by mind on fire.

Just wanted to make sure that this official connection between our names and CatGirl’s image and the New Yorker was recorded for posterity.

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I’ve been thinking about the Prayer of St. Francis recently and thought I’d share the Sarah McLachlan version with you.
Play song from Lala.com*
We like this prayer here at MoF: John recommended it for a secular meditation and I as a secular prayer for strength.
At that last link, I removed what I saw as unnecessary religious [...]

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the preceding image is licensed for reuse under Creative Commons by El_Enigma
I feel like I’m cheating when I draw on old content, but the unfathomable tragedy in Haiti has me thinking about past events that challenged my faith in a compassionate, omnipotent god. My faith took some time to die, but one comparatively tiny [...]

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I hope you’ll indulge me for a moment of self-reflection.
It’s been an eventful past three months. On 09/09/09, I was excommunicated, and I still haven’t had a chance to reflect properly on the event and its impact, partly because at the time it (unexpectedly to me) became more of a struggle for Jana than for [...]

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Just got home. The event was full to the brim and spilling down the sides with courtesy. Surprisingly, it felt good to greet a few old friends (I’ve known some of the men for nearly 20 years). It will take me some time to process this, but I feel pretty damn fine at the moment. [...]

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Ten Reasons to go vegetarian:
1. To boost your anti-corporate activist cred.
2. To protest in the nude for PETA someday.
3. You’re a cheapass mofo.
4. To pick up on bepierced and tattooed babes/dudes at the vegan grill.
5. To help meatpackers survive through unemployment.
6. What Would Buddha Do?
7. To save the planet by reducing bovine flatulence.
8. To be [...]

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Lying in bed in the wee hours this morning, I got to thinking about the murder of Dr. Tiller (deeply saddening, for all kinds of reasons) and about different views people have on an issue that is generally presented as a two-sided issue. I am pleased to see that most pro-life organizations are condemning his [...]

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Seems only appropriate to post a song about Boston, since I just returned from there..

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Jana and I just had a long talk about money and the future. We’ve got two children in public schools, Jana’s a grad student at UCI and I basically an employee of the State of California, so the Governator’s promised “Financial Armageddon” could make things rough in the coming months. Certainly it’s introduced (or at [...]

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