Pub Prophets? November 28, 2006

I was having a drink with a friend on the weekend when a shady-looking man approached me, handing me a business card. He said he couldn’t help but overhear my conversation and that he was recommending a book for me. Scrawled on the back of the card was  ’Conversations With God – Neale Donald Walsch’.
“Don’t worry, it’s not [...]

Covering up November 23, 2006

“What are your opinions on the veil (hijabs, burqas)? Do you think they’re symbols of oppression and Muslim women shouldn’t wear them while living in the West?”
- From Feminist
Are habits symbols of oppression for nuns?

No trudging of Blood and Water for me November 22, 2006

I’ve got a bit of a thing for Japanese novels at the moment.
I fell upon Banana Yoshimoto’s ‘Lizard’, which was the first Yoshimoto for me and, rather unlike this critic who attacks it as vapid for its romanticism, I think it is a wonderful book that extends fascinatingly way out from its cultural context. It was intimate, transcending conventional Japanese formality [...]

Nancy for President! November 9, 2006

She might very well be the Wonder Woman of the 21st century.
A pro-choice, anti-Iraq-war and staunch civil liberties defender. She supports the 2001 Unborn Victims of Violence Act, stem cell research, the separation of Church and State and increases to the minimum wage. She is education focused (2001 No Child Left Behind Act), health-care focused, [...]

We are watching you, Dubya. November 8, 2006

As millions of Americans cast their ballots in crucial mid-term congressional elections, early fears of new voting dramas emerged as soon as polls opened – especially in Ohio and Florida, the two battleground states scarred by voting dramas in 2000 and 2004.In one school in the predominantly black district of East Cleveland, Ohio, all 12 [...]

Israel seeks to move gay pride parade November 7, 2006

At first glimpse of the photo on this story, I thought it was a scene from the ongoing Israel / Hezbollah conflict. Wars over occupation and the right to land – although still, in my mind, not a valid reason for war as one does not exist – are not an unfamiliar sight. We have [...]

Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Evangelicals November 7, 2006

One of which, Ted Haggard, is a meth-smoking fag. I LOVE IT!

Saddam Hussein: The pot killing the kettle November 6, 2006

Please explain to me how any person or group of people is/are justified in taking someone else’s life as punishment for that person taking the life of another?

It’s not what you say but how you say it! (?) November 3, 2006

So Right to Life activist, Peter Erbacher launched attacks on RU486 Doctor, Caroline de Costa. While Mr. Erbacher admits that he is “too full on and rough around the edges” as he sabotages de Costa’s book launch by leaping on stage and badgering her, he also professes to “play by the rules”.  The fact that [...]

Myself: Little Red Writes November 2, 2006

Here I am, sheepishly walking through the cyber door into this new land of blogging. It may just well be a rites of passage transition from the self-indulgent spaces of livejournal in search of something a little more engaging than my own grizzly self-portraiture and uninteresting egoism. So here I am, twenty-something, somewhat convicted about a handful [...]