Dear Family,

Seven months of inactivity = unacceptable. And what better a time (?!) than to revive it than now?

The internet sings for you

If you tell it what to sing.

This is one of the most bizarre finds in a long time (month?). Just type in anything, and the internet will sing it for you. I swear.

Nerd Alert

LOTR + flow chart? Yes, please:

Above the Law sucks, but...

For once, they might be onto something. A column today points out that the need to rise in the rankings is literally costing law students. What I now realize is that it's the commenters on ATL that really suck, though.

Yet another reason I'm Methodist...

The NYTimes printed a fairly inflammatory story about a priest who had an affair with a separated woman who came to his retreat for counsel regarding her failing marriage. They had a child, and now she is suing the Franciscans for assistance to pay for the child's cancer treatments. They, like any business, are avoiding payments. However, I have to ask, "What would Jesus do?"

A) Not have an affair with a technically married woman.
B) Not try to cover it up, especially when there are children involved.
C) Let priests get married.
D) Let women be priests (though that one really doesn't have to with the story - it's just true.).

For the record, the mother/woman he slept with is now a Methodist.

I'm not a racist, but I'm going to make judgments on race.

Somewhere's friend posted this link about a justice of the peace who denied an interracial couple a license on FB, and I love it. Here is my favorite line:

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

For starters, how about some activist judging, huh? Nice that he did his own study on which marriages work and which don't. That's some serious ex parte communication, no?

What I really like though is that it reminds me of the guy on Survivor: "Look, she's from the ghetto, and she's trashy, so she's ghetto trash. . . She's not a lady. She's a bitch."

My relatives are going to love this!

Conservapedia (the conservative Wikipedia? really?) is apparently fed up with crappy Bible translations and has thus decided to translate it how they want to. Also, it says the NIV is written on a 7th grade level. No surprise there, I guess. Sigh.