It takes a big man to do so.
Category: ethics
Friday Night Lights
Do you think that God loves football?
I find myself watching Season 1 of the acclaimed TV series Friday Night Lights. (2006-2011)
It’s very intense. Very well done.
Is Texas truly this football obsessed?
Click PLAY or watch a promo on YouTube.
All the acting is strong. The writing excellent.
I really like Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins. And Connie Britton as Tami Taylor.
In fact, for a TV series about a macho male sport, the female lead characters are all good.
I never played football. Never much liked football.
Watching the show in 2013 I mostly worry about brain damage. Concussion.
it’s GOOD to eat leftovers
(infographic via Sustainable Blog)
a song for Syria
Ellie Goulding’s “I Know You Care.”
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
It’s highly unlikely that dropping bombs on these people will HELP the kids.
Donate to Save The Children or another charity working with Syrian refugees.
Dear Gun Nuts …
A great opinion piece by Matt Bors:
… After every mass shooting—which is essentially all the time these days—gun rights advocates drag out the “more guns = more safer” argument. And yet: we’re still not safe!
Despite having almost one gun for every man, woman, and child in the nation, peak safety has yet to be reached. …
If you take the positions of the NRA and add them up, you can see how the world would look if the gun lobby got everything it wants: Every American would have easy access to assault weapons, gun dealers would not be required to check the criminal record and mental health history of someone before selling them a gun, the capacity of gun magazines could be near-infinite, and it would be illegal for a city to stop people from carrying guns in public. This would be a country where you could literally buy an AR-15 at Walmart, immediately put on full tactical gear worn by SWAT teams, and stroll into a school for your parent-teacher conference with another fully armed adult….
read more – Dear Gun Nuts
related – My Gun Stance
12 worst mass shootings in U.S. history
Maddow – Half the deadliest shootings in U.S. history happened in past six years
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I expect about 4 / year over the next couple of years.
Gundamentalists will — somehow — deny each and every one. They are not thinking rationally.
A Big Heart Open to God
Finally, a reform Pope.
I’m really liking Pope Francis, so far. 🙂
These excerpts are from the full interview published in English by America magazine, a Jesuit weekly based in New York.
The pope, formerly a cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, spoke of the mistakes he feels he made when he became the superior of his Jesuit province in Argentina at the “crazy” young age of 36.
He talked about his vision of the church, and why he has chosen not to spend much time talking about abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
He explained what he meant by the headline-grabbing remark he made about gay people: “Who am I to judge?” And he said that doubt is essential to finding God. …
Tommy Douglas rolls over in grave
Tommy Douglas … (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian social-democratic politician and Baptist minister.
… Saskatchewan CCF’s leader and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. His government was the first democratic socialist government in North America, and it introduced the continent’s first single-payer, universal health care program. …
He’s much celebrated in Canada, in 2004 voted “Greatest Canadian” by viewers in one online vote.
Arriving Saskatoon early on a Sunday morning, I saw this tribute.
Nearby was this homeless man.
Tommy would be displeased. 😦
Saskatoon is a boom town right now. With a very low unemployment rate.
