...dominating everything cultural about the country. Am I saying that religion has no part in culture? 'Course not. Obviously because people are dominated by their religious beliefs, the culture of any society is going to reflect that. I'm just saying that to apply religious beliefs to a holiday about gorging yourself with candy and dressing up like someone else disturbs me and makes me worry about the...

I've never been married, so I can't repeat the statement that's going around that I don't think my marriage is diminished or threatened by allowing same sex couples to marry. I will say, as a single person, that I am no more threatened by gay marriage than I am by traditional marriage.

...shootings around here have in fact given birth to a trend where people are actually stating their mind, that is, they are not killing anyone, but pointing out that there is a fucking problem in society, and how do we respond? We label them mentally sick. This is fucking unbelievable. And the worst part of it is that the people of this country actually condone this kind of behaviour by the state...

...of television characters' behavior patterns. They easily move the plot, they each have their own set of consequences to consider for future plot twists, and they are the greedily-devoured traits society seeks. As social classes quickly sell-out and agree that such behaviors are normal, since Media tells us so, society as a whole begin to crumble more and more as people still struggle to emulate...

Wow. Okay-- he did it again. Brad Hicks just wrote about something I've totally thought for a long time, only he explained it better than I could. PLEASE check out this post, it's well worth the time.... since that tap of easy (but, truly, unaffordable and unsustainable and fraudulent) credit has dried up, there've been mass layoffs in all the places those jobs went to, too, including China."

Yeah, reposting this, because it is PAINFULLY adorable. Second-graders at Solomon Schechter Day School got answers to their "Flat Stanley" letters from Sen. Barack Obama. A little more than a month... That's why we live here," Mondschein said. Aron appears to be taking the lesson to heart. The other day, Mondschein said, he announced, "Mommy, when I'm 18 I get to vote." sdjfsdjkllk ADORABLE

Известная фраза Каина: "Разве я сторож брату моему", - в английском переводе звучит совсем иначе. Классическая King James Version передает её как "Am I my brother's keeper?" Этот же перевод находим в...место звучит так: "num custos fratris mei sum". Слово "custodis" имеет значение "сторож", но также "охраняющий", "хранитель" - отсюда английское "custodian". Вот такие переводческие трудности.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ( Galatians 3:28 KJV ) [thanks to keith418 for the verse]

ЖЖ-сообщества, пугавшие меня страшилками про кризис, я из френдленты удалил. Теперь вот РБК зажигает. Земле угрожает «экологическая рецессия» По вине человека Такое предупреждение... Рабочий день прошёл бестолково, но что значит один мой рабочий день в контексте глобальных несчастий, что в скором будущем ниспадут на человечество, безмерно и безответственно пожирающее планету

Как во всех бывших колониальных странах, отмечается двоеязычие. Но никто, даже среди своих, дома, не говорит на родном языке. Есть, правда, несколько захолустных анклавов во внутренних областях страны...диалекты употребляются малообразованными людьми... (c) неа. это - про Ирландию. Некто Клаудио Лауренти в "Ирландских записках" разливает на несколько страниц классику постсоветской эмигрантщины