Go Team Wales!

A few weeks ago, a woman named Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. “The Yarn Harlot”:http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog) posted the idea that during the Olympics we all can be Olympiads, in our own way–for us, it’s the “Knitting Olympics”:http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/olympics2006.html. Each of us sets our own goal, to be a knitting challenge for the individual, to be cast on sometime on February 10, 2006 (the day that the Olympic Torch is lit) and completely finished and ready to wear by the day the torch is extinguished, February 26.

Seems like a silly idea?
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churches celebrate darwin’s birthday

As “Wallace”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108598/ would say, “Happy Birthday, Chuck!”:

bq. Nearly 450 Christian churches around the country plan to “celebrate the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602110101feb11,1,287350.story on Sunday with programs and sermons intended to emphasize that his theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science.

Specter of Asbestos Bill Haunts Victims

Since I posted last, a bill has come before the Senate as reported by Reuters.

While this bill sounds good at first glance, a second look at the small print exposes the bill for what it is — a bail out for corporations who fear the cost of taking responsibility for the harm they have inflicted on workers and their families throughout the years. The general idea is good, but we need a bill NOT written to favor the companies who caused the problem in the first place. As the article mentions, there is a new bill before the House that might offer a better solution.

fantastic four

My symptoms of a meme virus transmitted by “Taylor McKnight”:http://gtmcknight.com/log/archives/2006/02/01/fantastic_four.php:

Four Places I’ve Lived:
* Charleston, West Virginia
* Milwaukee, Wisconsin
* La Jolla, California
* Hillcrest, California
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