Upsetting...Christian Kidnap

This is really odd. No one said, "Hey, this might look like kidnapping?!"

Also, Tomorrow, meet at the bottom of Baker to go to the Hannah House to eat dinner with the homeless. 5:30. Be there. Yo.

Spring Quarter

Hello!

So, I will be getting back on here with firm things of firmness, such as dates and times and names, etc., but not until Saturday, when we're meeting to decide just what those firm things are.

Things in the works include:

A week devoted to exploring issues surrounding intelligent design, possibly getting a speaker and a panel for a forum together, with a movie that highlights the theme of intelligent design.

A week devoted to examining poverty. This includes a movie focusing on poverty, a panel-led discussion on religious outlooks on Appalachian poverty, and a group of us volunteering at the Hannah House, Athens' homeless transition home, to make dinner on a Friday.

This is what I have! Movie nights will continue, as will Passport events. More to come in the following weeks!

I'm so sorry, I had to. Camels.

Pope Uses Google as Scapegoat

This story is...amazing. I can just see all of the Pope's PR people sitting around a giant wooden table going, "Well, damn. The Pope lifted the excommunication on a Nazi-crazed Holocaust-denier. That doesn't look too good. It's bad. Very bad. How can we fix it? Who can we blame!?"

The little dude in the back who never speaks: "Google!"

Vatican encourages excommunication

This is a really upsetting story about how the Vatican is encouraging and supporting the excommunication of a 9 year-old, her mother, and her doctors, after the little girl received an abortion after being raped. The little girl was pregnant with twins. First of all, how do 9 year-olds get pregnant? Second, there's a loud four letter word I would like to say, but will refrain from, at the Vatican's inability to accept gray areas. Thanks to Em for the article.

Water Buffalo

Because I just couldn't avoid it. I swear I will put up things with substance soon. :D

Bologna

This is so horrendously disgusting, I have to share it with all of you.

Possible ingredients in bologna:

• chicken feet
• tripe (cow stomach lining)
• sweetbreads (cow pancreas)
• frog's still-beating heart
• snake blood
• cow's lung
• turkey and chicken butts
• cabeza (cow's head with eyes)
• rabbit kidneys
• menudo (cow stomach lining soup)
• kangaroo organs
• rat and duck embryos
• cow lips
• chicken necks
• offal (mixed internal organs such as heart, liver, or intestines)
• haslet (pig offal meatloaf)
• haggis (a cow stomach filled with its offal)

MESSAGE: NEVER EAT BOLOGNA.