Friday Open Thread [3.9.12]
Well, we’ve been having server problems again, so we apologize if you’ve been unable to post comments on our brilliant posts from the past few hours.
First off, we want to wish JP Connor Jr a speedy recovery. He tweeted last night that he had suffered a heart attack. While we disagree with him on his support of a certain elected official, we want him to get better fast. We miss his comments with that silly smiley face at the end of them. Hurry up and get well, JP.
It seems as though the culture wars have spread to the other side of the pond.
Bideford, England — Perhaps the locals should have anticipated sparks on a town council stocked not only with a practicing pagan, a staunch atheist and an agnostic former stripper but also two evangelical Christians and a Methodist church organist. But few could have predicted that one small town’s fight over the abolition of Christian prayers at public meetings would escalate into Britain’s own culture wars.
Even as the Republican primaries highlight America’s divide over the separation of church and state, Britain finds itself locked in a debate over religion that is entangling not just the British government but even Queen Elizabeth II. The move to ban public prayers in tiny Bideford — and potentially across all of England and Wales — has erupted into a national proxy fight over the question of whether Christianity should still hold a privileged place in a modern, diverse and now highly secular society.
And it’s championship weekend in college basketball, with the final selection of the NCAA tournament seeds to be announced on Sunday. Of course you know I’ll be pulling for my Wisconsn Badgers. So how does one fit in hours of basketball and Ironman training (2200 yard swim tonight, an aerobic brick tomorrow with my coach, and a 105 minute aerobic run on Sunday)?
I don’t have any problem with England remaining an openly Christan country. Their version of Christianity seems to have a lot more to do with Jesus and the golden rule, than the American version.
That’s because they sent all the Puritans over here.
Now that was funny.
Where is there a working public pay telephone in eastern Sussex County? Anybody. (They’re cheap for international calls.)
Walt, there’s one at Gordon’s Pond
JP has been through an awful lot these last few years. Get well, JP.
The most surprising thing about my heart attack is that there was one there to attack me. I had new hardware installed in the form of. 4 stents this morning. As is well known I am economicly challenged but I was able to get them barely used from Dick Cheney. I now have sudden urges to go bird hunting. I am getting tossed from the hospital tomorrow and I hope to be back to work Monday morning. Thanks for the good wishes !
Glad you’re feeling better!
Best wishes JP! Rest up.
Good to see you on the mend, JP.
Hang in there JP. Stents rock.
JP: I’m glad to see that you’re already back on the internets. Impressive! Are you going to go to the Bill Clinton vegan diet?
I have other things in common with Bill. I will, however, take my diet far more seriously. I have to be up to life 6 or 7:). I got several lectures about to much activity. I will take that under advisement. Thanks for askin’
And despite the rumors, I did not cause JP’s heart attack.
No you did not ;). Too much sugared caffeinated pepsi is my prime suspect . Diet ginger ale stock will be rising !