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Quote of the Day

"I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country who don't believe in global warming."

President Jimmy Carter

Facebook comment of the day

Until recently, the local UMC congregation was served by Pastor Ledwell. He has departed, and they are now served by Pastor Ledbetter.

Dave Lyle at ELCA Clergy

Quote of the Day

"The person is strangely composite;  it contains Stone Age elements and principles of a more advanced science, prejudices from all past phases of history...and intuitions of a future philosophy."

Antonio Gramsci

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Dad should be proud

Quote of the Day

"Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise."

Maya Angelou

Best Facebook comment of the day

Gregory Yeager:   "I don't read theology often, but when I do, I read Tillich. Stay thirsty, my friends."

The seven deadly virtues

According to Dorothy Sayers:  “Respect­ability, childishness, mental timidity, dullness, sentimentality, censoriousness, and depression of spirits.”

Quote of the Day

The refusal of Republican states to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion surely ranks as one of the most sordid acts in recent American history. The cost to the states is tiny, and the help it would bring to the poor is immense. It's paid for by taxes that residents of these states are going to pay regardless of whether they receive any of the benefits. And yet, merely because it has Obama's name attached to it, they've decided that immiserating millions of poor people is worth it. It's hard to imagine a decision more depraved.

Conservatives hate it when you accuse them of simply not caring about the poor. Sometimes they have a point. This is not one of those times.

Kevin Drum

Quote of the Day

"I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing."

Jon Stewart