Assorted forms of outrage

[azurelunatic]

http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/118585.html -- Bits of Bad Religion. My former bondmate wants to believe that his religion is Good, because of course it could only Mean Well. Um, well...
http://saoba.livejournal.com/137533.html -- Poverty.
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/177578.html -- Adam and Steve vs. a mailserver gone horribly wrong
http://tales-of-josan.livejournal.com/53217.html -- Bujold-fic angst.

Pretty soon now I go off to give plasma and send the computer to the repair depot. I was partially delayed by a popped lens. (Having bits of glasses fall off is an automatic fail at a perfect day.)

hcolleen noticed that the water was all cold. I called the office and left a message (the after-hours page was full). This morning, the water is ... warm.
Warm is better than cold, right?

On the other hand, I have new devious plans to motivate my phone goons.

Comments

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Went through the Brad Hicks stuff. Interesting but I'm not sure he's got it right. Something that he missed is that definitely around 1890 and continuing at least to 1930 (possibly later and earlier on both ends, I don't have enough data), Catholics were Catholics, and stayed that way. Protestants in general used churches as a social class system. Evangelical churches were the "low class" churches, Episcopalian was the high class church, and I don't recall the niggling details of the in between part of the scale. If you look at primary source material about what evangelicals were teaching scripturally that far back, it looks an *awful* lot like what they're teaching now.

A lot of the discrimination against Catholics during that time was because noone had a *clue* what to do with people who were dirt poor, went to a church that looked awfully Episcopalian, and were mostly (horrors!) immigrants. And they had weird names! They must be... socialists! Or worse, anarchists!

I suspect he did at one point have his hands on some very interesting primary source material (and then didn't write it down and *keep* it). Just he doesn't have the historical background to put it in the right place :-/.

[azurelunatic]

Alas!

[azurelunatic]

Today: note on the toaster oven about "Due to a WATER EMERGENCY, your apartment has been entered to check the tub faucet." Hoping it's warm enough? Or not leaking, at least?