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Obama is leading the Iowa primary caucus, according to the most recent Newsweek poll.  Hooray for Midwestern values!

On a related matter, Obama gets interviewed by Grist magazine online - and sounds pretty dang good, if you ask me.

For good information on the background to the junta’s current violence against the Burmese people, look to the website of Burma Issues (a.k.a. Peace Way Foundation).

… and peaceful resolution to the racial violence too real still today.

Go check out my daddio’s blog over at Captain Proton Takes on the Trib, at tomonthetrib.wordpress.com. You can read about the exciting world of proton channels, the origins of his moniker Captain Proton, and the full stream of angry letters my dad sends to the Chicago Tribune out of his patriotic duty to raise the consciousness of his fellow citizens.

by me and my PSR buddies

• Chances are you’ll find someone who shares similar values and/or worldviews with you—especially fellow church geeks.
• He knows a lot. In the Biblical sense.
• She’ll have a friend who can do your wedding for free.
• He probably won’t make enough money to raise your tax bracket.
• The laying on of hands takes on a whole new meaning.
• After all that theological pondering, she can make a stronger argument for atheism than anyone else.
• He’s so glad to get off campus that he’s a cheap date.
• Special moments will be enhanced by recitations from the Song of Songs. “As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.” (Song of Songs 2:3)
• You just might be the partner of the next famous televangelist.
• You get a free ticket to heaven.
• You get a free ticket to D’Autremont.
• She can really greet people with the Holy Kiss. (Romans 16:16)
• Confessing sins of the flesh takes on new appeal.
• As Paul writes, “it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion” (I Corinthians 7:9b).
• You just might be enticed into seminary studies yourself.

by me and my PSR buddies

• Privacy is hard to come by: this is a very small community and generally people will know how your love life is going. (Did I mention PSR dorms’ thin walls?)
• After some time, you might explode, “Geez, let’s not theologically analyze everything in life, OK?”
• He may have a latent monastic streak in him.
• No long weekend getaways.
• No late-night Saturday parties. Unless she’s Seventh-day Adventist.
• A lot of his congregants believe he’s infallible.
• “Maybe, for once, that WASN’T the Holy Spirit coming over you, okay?”
• When she doesn’t want to do something or go somewhere, she can hide behind a book and claim that she’s “working on the sermon.”
• He’ll try to convince you his list of weekly house chores should include “House Chaplain.”
• Chastity is really over-rated.
• Surprisingly, it IS possible to get sick of hearing your partner hum “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.”
• You’ll have to get used to explaining, “Yes, she’s religious, but that doesn’t mean she’s a raging fundamentalist.”
• Whenever you want to go around judging men for lying the lyings of a woman because of the book of Leviticus, she’ll make you stop wearing polyfiber blends, getting tattoos, and harvesting fruit from four year old trees as well.
• You just might be enticed into seminary studies yourself.

If you like Harry Potter and progressive politics, this memorial to Karl Rove’s stint running our country is for you:

For those who like blogs and don’t like Bush:

The facial tics and jumbled verbiage of this actor are uncannily realistic. The truth of it is scary.