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Carbon Monoxide vs. Oxygen

Fun fact:  Hemoglobin has 200 times the affinity for carbon monoxide that it has for oxygen.  That’s why giving oxygen to victims of carbon monoxide poison does nothing to help them. Under the right circumstances, hemoglobin gives up oxygen to your tissues and takes on carbon dioxide, which it in turn gives up in your […]

Strangely evocative and accurate

Raymond Arroyo: Derision Over Truth

Where Peter Is continues it’s look at the Number One Media Enemy of the Pope: Raymond Arroyo, perpetually-auditioning-for-FOX-News host of The World Over on the Network that Used to be EWTN: The second part of this series will take a somewhat different approach than part one. In the first article, I highlighted several of the […]

Local Syrian Church Leaders on Operation Desert Stormy

Meanwhile, here is what has *really* been occupying the thoughts of the Mob Boss as he attempts to distract you by lobbing bombs.  Note how the childish little thug inserts the Syrian attack in the middle of his blathering about what he really cares about: Comey.  Killing people as a tool for distraction. #impeachmentnow

Days 8 through 12 of the Great Shea Western Journey of Awesomeness

I began writing this as we were leaving Cortez, Colorado (named for Hernan Cortez, Conqueror of Mexico and not to be confused with Cortex, Colorado, Home of the World’s Smartest People). You may notice that this is a considerable distance from Yosemite National Park. In addition, you may note that the last chronicle of these […]

What Christianism Stands For vs. What Christians Stand for

Abortions for rich Republicans.  Hanging for women forced to get them. Christians, in contrast, support Rachel’s Vineyard and believe in justice for crooks like Trump and his henchmen.

Days 5 Through 8 of the Shea Western Journey of Discovery

Awoke to drenching, soaking, torrential, endless, pouring rain on Friday April 6.  Started writing the second entry of this account. Didn’t get far because Jan, bless her heart, had made us this awesome sausage and egg concoction wrapped in an inner layer of flour tortilla and an outer layer of THE MOST MAJESTIC REDWOOD FOREST […]

Christianist “Prolife” Pundit Kevin Williamson…

…thinks post-abortive women should be hanged. He’s a respected writer for the National Review. And he’s not alone.  Idaho GOP candidate for Lieutanant Governor and State Sen. Bob Nonini also thinks post-abortive women should be executed. And they aren’t alone. People wonder why the Old Prolife Movement is in ruins.  The answer is: It has become […]

Please pray and help if you can!

A reader writes: Hi Mark, this is a prayer request and a little bit of a call to arms. My friend Jacob is in his mid-30’s. He and his wife, Sarah, have 7 kids from 13 down to 1. On Sun., he went to our little rural ER with what seemed to be severe dehydration. […]

The Pope offers a new exhortation on the call to holiness

You can read it here. Do that before reading all the complaints about it that the Greatest Catholics of All Time are sure to spread everywhere in the Christianist, Francis-hating Right Wing Noise Machine Media. Here’s a taste: CHAPTER ONE THE CALL TO HOLINESS THE SAINTS WHO ENCOURAGE AND ACCOMPANY US 3. The Letter to […]