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I'm continuing to enjoy the musings of Real Live Preacher. Here's a choice passage:
| | I spent a lot of time in Mexico as a young boy. The preacher knows the mingled smells of outhouses, kerosene, and poverty. It's something you never forget.
One year during a bitter cold spell my father and his friends showed up at the border with a load of blankets and coats. The forecast was for temperatures well below freezing that night, and they knew a lot of families were going to be cold. The Mexican government forbade them from entering. Some bureaucratic bullshit, I guess.
My dad said his kinder, gentler equivalent of "fuck it" and became a smuggler on the spot. He and the others made numerous trips across the border that day in different cars with blankets, food, and jackets crammed under the seats and hidden in the trunks.
My dad felt that one's calling to serve God was higher than one's calling to obey the law. For Christ's sake, he and his friends couldn’t let children freeze.
"For Christ's sake" packs a punch when you mean it literally. |
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I've got a little list
I've updated my link list with a whole bunch of Salon blogs. (Thanks to Mark Hoback for emailing me about this!) Originally my thinking was, hey, I'd be providing tons of links in the main posting area of the blog to different Salon blogs, and ultimately we want to have a more permanent directory listing of Salon bloggers, and so such a list wouldn't be necessary. But my administrative duties here have cut deep into my posting time, and the directory isn't here yet, so in the meantime, here it is.
It's nothing like a complete list of Salon blogs. It reflects a combination of my own interests and blogs that I've noticed have some staying power, or that bloggers have put a lot of energy into. If you're not on the list, don't have a fit! It probably means I just haven't stumbled on you yet. And as always anyone is welcome to email me if they think I've missed out on their blog.
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Free the research papers!
Today's NY Times has a piece by Amy Harmon about a new project by leading scientists to create free, online, peer-reviewed journals that get research widely disseminated without the delays and fees associated with the more traditional print-journal approach.
Bravo. Isn't this what the Internet, and the Web, were created for in the first place?
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