Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities. Of the 6,000 languages spoken today, fully half are not being taught to children. Every two weeks an elder dies and carries into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue. Within a generation or two we are losing half of humanity’s social, cultural and intellectual legacy.

— Dr. Wade Davis

I came down with something this weekend, hence my lack of interest in posting yesterday.  I spent the entire day sleeping and being otherwise miserable.  It's just a simple cold, but the sore throat, aches and pains, and general malaise are unwelcome visitors during this holiday time.  Damn it!

Anyway, I'm catching up on chores today — as much as possible — but will not be running any marathons.  At least I feel better than I did yesterday, but that's probably not saying much.  Still, I promise to post more today.  It'll happen between naps, I'm sure.

As for being sick, this roller coaster Texas weather does it.  Warm and humid one day, then briskly cold the next; sunny and clear in the morning, then temperatures dropping throughout the day with high winds and clouds and rain.  The point is that I'm not sure why more Texans don't die from this stuff when we go through the wild back-and-forth transitions during seasonal changes.  We get a hard freeze one morning and have 80-degree temperatures the next.

Well, I'll gladly suffer through it.  Weather fascinates me, and the rapid-fire changes that take place in Texas certainly provide some of the best and most diverse meteorological experiences to be had.  It's a gift of our geographic location.

I have a whole lot I have to say about this thing and the other thing and that last thing too, and I fully intend on being heard — just not tonight.  Please, feel free to talk amongst yourselves.

Chances are you are scared of fictions. Chances are you are only fleetingly happy. Chances are you know much less than you think you do. Chances are you feel a little guilty. Chances are you want people to lie to you.

— David Cross

I despise those who use religious grounds to base their political views.  I especially hate it when Christians do so based on any number of biblical diatribes.  Why?  As I have mentioned time and again, they pick and choose which admonitions they want to believe in.

I covered a significant amount of this contradictory and hypocritical behavior in That gay marriage thing again – the bible.  I demonstrated then a series of biblical directives which the modern Christian church refuses to acknowledge or follow, yet they readily grab anything that can be used against gays.  They have become charlatans of their own religion by accepting only those portions of it which are convenient to them.

In the spirit of once again demonstrating this abhorrent behavior and laughable practice by Christians, I wish to remind everyone that God Hates Shrimp (and anything else in the ocean which lacks scales or fins).