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In Great Falls, South Carolina, Darla K. Wynne, the Wiccan who successfully sued the town for starting their council meetings with prayers to Jesus Christ and refusing to allow non-sectarian prayers or prayers from other faiths, is now involved in a suit to have the town pay her $65,000 legal bills. The Assembly of God church has offered to cover the tab if the city is forced to pay.

Let's think about that for a moment -- the Ass of God can cough up $65,000 out of unbudgeted thin air to cover court costs for some other entity? Man, our lot can't even make a $25,000 a year budget. We think we're doing good when we can send $50 to some other worthy cause (like when the Hindu temple got vandalized after 9/11).

Anyway, good info and commentary on the matter here.

Note especially the bits where people broke into her house and killed and tortured her pets. There's a word for people who think that Jesus wants them to behead parrots.... "schizophrenic".

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In Great Falls, South Carolina, Darla K. Wynne, the Wiccan who successfully sued the town for starting their council meetings with prayers to Jesus Christ and refusing to allow non-sectarian prayers or prayers from other faiths, is now involved in a suit to have the town pay her $65,000 legal bills. The Assembly of God church has offered to cover the tab if the city is forced to pay.

Let's think about that for a moment -- the Ass of God can cough up $65,000 out of unbudgeted thin air to cover court costs for some other entity? Man, our lot can't even make a $25,000 a year budget. We think we're doing good when we can send $50 to some other worthy cause (like when the Hindu temple got vandalized after 9/11).

Anyway, good info and commentary on the matter here.

Note especially the bits where people broke into her house and killed and tortured her pets. There's a word for people who think that Jesus wants them to behead parrots.... "schizophrenic".

File under P for pimping.

Anybody want to buy an LCD projector, reasonably cheap?

My company bought 5 Epson Powerlite s3 projectors a couple of months ago, used them to do a few weeks of training all over the place, and now doesn't need them and is trying to recoup some of their cost. We bought 'em for $729 each, selling for $500 (plus shipping, if necessary). They hook to a laptop (PC or iBook, apparently) and all have remotes, carrying cases, user guides and all the cords.

File under P for pimping.

Anybody want to buy an LCD projector, reasonably cheap?

My company bought 5 Epson Powerlite s3 projectors a couple of months ago, used them to do a few weeks of training all over the place, and now doesn't need them and is trying to recoup some of their cost. We bought 'em for $729 each, selling for $500 (plus shipping, if necessary). They hook to a laptop (PC or iBook, apparently) and all have remotes, carrying cases, user guides and all the cords.

Harry Potter, and also, DOOM!

I've just discovered something. Along with "black cock" and "blonde pink", "Snape head" is a phrase that you should really think about before blithely typing it into the Google image search.

So, yeah. I was building an icon containing "The Condensed Harry Potter" (see below), and needed more Snape expressions. Mais non. So now I'm off the concept totally. Besides, the icon on this post is the only Harry-Potter-related icon I'll ever *really* need.

What brought this on? Whizzed through the new HP book on Saturday waiting for Asmodeus to get fixed up. And liked it, or at least liked it better than the last one, which I think might have been Harry Potter and the Really Shitty Year, or Harry Potter and the Suicide Helpline, or something like that. I generally like these books because they're funny in unexpected, and generally good-natured ways, not because I'm into the deep drama of wars in the Wizarding community or whatnot.

See, people with extraordinary powers using them to deal with normal situations, funny. People with extraordinary powers striving valiantly to save the world, not funny. Like in the Fantastic Four movie -- Mr. Fantastic stretching across the hall for a roll of toilet paper? Funny. Mr. Fantastic stretching around Enraged Villain Dr. Doom in order to Save The World From Certain Death? Seen it.

Anyway, without further ado:
( The Condensed Harry Potter, as told by E3 )

Harry Potter, and also, DOOM!

I've just discovered something. Along with "black cock" and "blonde pink", "Snape head" is a phrase that you should really think about before blithely typing it into the Google image search.

So, yeah. I was building an icon containing "The Condensed Harry Potter" (see below), and needed more Snape expressions. Mais non. So now I'm off the concept totally. Besides, the icon on this post is the only Harry-Potter-related icon I'll ever *really* need.

What brought this on? Whizzed through the new HP book on Saturday waiting for Asmodeus to get fixed up. And liked it, or at least liked it better than the last one, which I think might have been Harry Potter and the Really Shitty Year, or Harry Potter and the Suicide Helpline, or something like that. I generally like these books because they're funny in unexpected, and generally good-natured ways, not because I'm into the deep drama of wars in the Wizarding community or whatnot.

See, people with extraordinary powers using them to deal with normal situations, funny. People with extraordinary powers striving valiantly to save the world, not funny. Like in the Fantastic Four movie -- Mr. Fantastic stretching across the hall for a roll of toilet paper? Funny. Mr. Fantastic stretching around Enraged Villain Dr. Doom in order to Save The World From Certain Death? Seen it.

Anyway, without further ado:
( The Condensed Harry Potter, as told by E3 )