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People from Kansas – Not so intelligently designed…

Kansas votes in intelligent design. Randi Rhodes on Kansas And in a surprise move, my home state of PA votes out the intelligent design idgits on the Dover school board. All we are is dust in the wind…

It’s about time.

A good day for Democrats Schwarzenegger Dealt Stinging Rebuke

Again. WTF?

From Andrew Sullivan‘s blog: QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “‘The good news is – and it’s hard for some to see it now – that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house [...]

Sunny Day

Beth Stroud reinstated Good news to report – Beth Stroud (or as she’s known in the media, the “lesbian pastor”) has been reinstated. The United Methodist Church panel reviewing her appeal found that her defrocking must be nullified because several key terms under which she was disciplined have never been adequately defined by the proper [...]

Dworkin Departed

So, the barely-reported news is that Andrea Dworkin died this past weekend at age 58. Love her or hate her (and those were almost your only choices), Dworkin was important. She was important because she refused to back down and she refused to talk about nice things. She’s perhaps best known for her opinions on [...]

The Philosophy of Loss

Methodist jury convicts lesbian minister. A shout out here to Beth Stroud, associate pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, PA. Beth (who is a college classmate of the staff of Mirandala.org) was put on trial by the United Methodist Church for violating a United Methodist law that forbids the ordination and appointment [...]

Oh yeah, like *that’s* really gonna help.

Condi gets the nod to replace Powell. Apocalypse on schedule.

Talkin’ Bout a Revolution

Ok. We here at Mirandala.org gave ourselves through this past weekend to grieve and curse and throw our George W. Bush action figure across the room at the wall (again and again), but now it’s time to get off our blue-state asses and do something. Anything. Either more of what we’ve been doing (’cause clearly [...]

If the World Is Night

Well the world seems spent And the president Has no good idea Of who the masses are Well I’m one of them And I’m among friends We’re trying to see beyond The fences in our own backyards I’ve seen the kingdoms blow Like ashes in the winds of change But the power of truth Is [...]