the rix mix

On Wednesday I voted against habeas corpus & on Thursday I voted to condemn free speech, I gotta tell you I just love being your United States Senator. What's that you say? War? What war?
Ms. Brilliant comments on the wussy-asses.
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Great sky here in the moments after sunset. A photo couldn't have captured it, & it faded fast. The edge of a wide band of high, reddish clouds was overhead, angling from southwest to northeast, & beyond it to the north the open space of cloudless pale blue. The show disappeared completely during the ten minutes I spent in 7-11 reading newspaper headlines.
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Happy Second Blogiversary to Street Prophets. I hang my hoodie there everyday for a little while or more & discuss things spiritual & progressive politics through a "faith" oriented prism. Although it's an offshoot of Kos, SP is about 1/1000th the size of The Orange Monster & attracts few of the Kossack regulars. A lot of the diaries aren't political. There's a daily Kaffeeklatsch & "prayer closet." A member posts a "Daily Office" based I think on the Anglican cycle. We've been discussing Yom Kippur & Ramadan. Some members of the community post very personal, even confessional, diaries. If you generalize too broadly in a rant about "fundies" or evangelicals, you might get quick education on the varieties of conservative religious belief. The Catholics are all laity-power types, which is my kind of RC. There's doctorate level protestants whose seminary theology goes way over my head. Occasionally, a troll wanders in from the far eft or far right, & more than once we've turned those threads into recipe exchanges. Earlier this year, SP'ers collaborated on cookbook. We have a couple of quilters. Over the first year, it was entertaining to watch how SP sorted itself out, with no outside direction, into the structure of a congregation, a reminder that none of that has anything to do with specific religions or doctrines. We have a sort of "pastor" who sort of directs traffic, but if you disagree with him you can stand up & throw a cream pie at the pulpit, something I've often wanted to do in church.