June 27, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Here’s what I do when a link to a newspaper article—it’s always newspapers—makes me log in to read it: Close the window.
kiyo ← robot-heart ← onionvolcano ← sft ← blog-imgs-21.fc2.com
How does this even happen?
“Evangelicals are surpassing the divorce rate of secular society. And yet we’re accusing gay folks of breaking up the family while all of them want to get married. What’s happening here?”
—shane claiborne
Both of these ideas—divorce makes marriage a sham anyway and why shouldn’t people who love each other be able to get married regardless of gender—are missing the real point.
Marriage is a life-long union of a man and a woman. Anything other than that is simply not marriage.
You can call a dictatorship a democracy but it’s still not a democracy. You can call a drink without gin and vermouth a martini but it’s still not a martini.
Both of these ideas—divorce makes marriage a sham anyway and why shouldn’t people who love each other be able to get married regardless of gender—are missing the real point.
Marriage is a life-long union of a man and a woman. Anything other than that is simply not marriage.
You can call a dictatorship a democracy but it’s still not a democracy. You can call a drink without gin and vermouth a martini but it’s still not a martini.
kiyo ← do-nothing ← fialux ← shokai ← shigesa:
If you took a picture of the sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the sun over the course of a year is called an analemma… .
Nice.
No wonder it’s been so smokey in Sacramento lately. This map is from the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services via kayakeverywhere. Here are the numbers.
- 8,000 lightning strikes (Fox News)
- 1088 fires (USA Today)
- 12,500 firefighters (USAT)
- from 41 States (Fox)
- 159,000 acres (USAT)
- 16 homes destroyed (USAT)
- 500 homes threatened (USAT)
“But weather forecasters were predicting more lightning storms, potentially similar to those that have ignited more than 1,000 blazes.” (LA Times)