Exceive

OK, it isn’t the same Monroe that most Presidents refer to. However, I strongly suspect it is the Monroe with whom most Presidents would prefer to discuss foreign policy, particularly in a strong updraft.

Image from here.
Thanks to Echidna of the Snakes.

I’ve always had a problem with that definition.

My experience is that if you do anything interesting, the results are different every time you do it. I suppose I could attempt to embrace repeatability, but it’s never worked before, so I’d be crazy to expect anything different.

This is important.

Next time somebody asks why non-evil Christians don’t ever say anything, this is at least one thing to point at.

As posted on Chuck Currie’s blog.

As it came from the camera, it was very dark. Boosting light and contrast revealed lots of detail, but the color was funky. So I tried turning the saturation down to an almost black and white look.

We both look more civilized now.

Erik and I haircut
Originally uploaded by Rotten Little Pony.

Some lovely pictures. Really.
There is a certain sincerity and honesty in a few of these that is rarely seen in family snapshots that get kept.

A pleasing antidote to the “visions of sugarplums”. Know any kids who could have a vision of sugarplums? Know any kids who know what one looks like?

If there is anything to say about this, you guys will have to say it.

Pop away.

Christmas is under attack in the same universe where Social Security is about to go bankrupt if those Iraqi nukes don’t kill us all first.

Not content with using the birth of Christ as a commercial opportunity, now it’s a political one as well.

A lot of diets just plain don’t feel right. My idea is that if you pay attention to how you feel when you eat something, if you are in some semblance of balance you will know, for the most part, what’s good for you.

This diet feels very right.

We need to be able to say strongly, firmly, and proudly what we believe.

Because we are what we believe.

We don’t believe this stuff, we know it. We (when we have the guts) are it.

Cut that word “believe” out of your political language. It is weak. Do the Occidental* Taliban say they believe? No - they say this is the way it is. Are we less right than they are? Is their point of view truth while ours is only belief?

* I’m trying to come up with a less positive modifier for “Taliban” than “Christian” or “American”. Let’s not use words like that when referring to the aggressors of the culture wars. People who are paying attention hear sentences, the masses hear words. That’s why the Bushistas say the words “9/11″ and “terrorist” and “Al Qaida” close to when they say “Iraq” even though the sentences don’t state any real connection. Say “American Taliban” and “Christian Taliban” enough times and “Taliban” will turn into a good word.

‘Occidental’ means Western.

I’ve started posting some pictures on Flickr.

I like the search capabilities. There seems to be some potential for a kind of community.

My name over there is Rotten Little Pony - the examples for names were Johhny Rotten and (IIRC) My Little Pony. I had to combine them.