Buster hulu sendak trailer where_the_wild_things_are | Family | Saturday March 28, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Where the Wild Things Are in hard-bound print became the first book I bought for my sons when I stumbled across it in a book store, without benefit of review or advertising. I read it "without blinking once," standing beside a shelf , and the joy of Maurice...

Frink global_cooling richard_land southern_baptist_convention | Politics | Wednesday March 25, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Richard Land , head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, is a global-cooling coal man. Coal Land has linked up with Friends of Coal to bang his drum against greenhouse gas emission control and to ...

Frink bowling obama special_olympics | Healthcare | Monday March 23, 2009 | By gwfrink3

(c)Fir0002/Flagstaffotos Yes, I overlooked it (not a Leno fan ). No , I cannot/will not let President Obama's offhand diminution of Special Olympians pass. Or accept a staff-delivered apology as sufficient. Not because I have children or...

Frink atm e-voting_machines kentucky ky lexington | Politics | Monday March 23, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Love E-Voting? Read Brad Friedman on the indictment of Clay County, Ky., officials for "chang[ing] votes at the voting machine" and showing others how. The vulnerable machines are deployed in : . . . 419 jurisdictions in 18 states including Arkansas,...

Frink abortion contraception france polls pope_benedict_xvi | Spiritual | Monday March 23, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Two nationwide polls show the French losing confidence in Pope Benedict XVI , and one of them found an overwhelming majority of French Catholics in favor of a change in abortion/contraception doctrine.

Frink depression mental_illness nicholas_hughes stigma suicide | Healthcare | Monday March 23, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Hughes with his mother, Sylvia Plath not long before her death. Nicholas Hughes is gone , by his own hand , leaving us behind to wonder what we might have done. Almost inevitably in this stigmatizing culture [.pdf] , more . For the son whose ...

Frink General | Sunday March 22, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Was Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaking ex-cathedra? Apparently unmoved by the Bush administration's history of manipulating conservative Christians like him , Dr. Land told...

Frink austria crime education employment fritzl prison punishment rehabilitation | Politics | Sunday March 22, 2009 | By gwfrink3

In matters of imprisonment , the relationship between education, employment and recidivism is well known to social scientists. To legislators and the rest of us, often not so well. What we learn from the example of Austria's handling of the criminal of...

Frink ethics legal_defense_fund sarah_palin troopergate | Politics | Sunday March 22, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Is poor Sarah now broke along with the rest of us? How did January's $11-million book deal become March's legal defense fund (both still prospective)? Ten "frivolous" (she calls them) ethics complaints down the road from her national political debut...

Frink general_ham general_patton iraq military ptsd stigma | General | Sunday March 08, 2009 | By gwfrink3

U.S. Army Brig. General Gary S. Patton and Gen. Carter Ham are attacking the historic military prejudice against acknowledging and seeking treatment for psychiatric illness by sharing their experience with PTSD . For Patton it was the memory of a...

Tiger, Tiger ... I'm Burning Now baptist children number predators sbc sexual victims | SciMed | Tuesday January 13, 2009 | By gwfrink3

A nightmare which is real : Imagine a country with 16 million people -- a country the size of Chile or the Netherlands. Marauders roam among the population, raping the young and vulnerable? and no one stops them. Yes, Christa Brown of Stop Baptist...

Frink lowery obama reconciliation robinson warren watkins | Spiritual | Tuesday January 13, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Our first black president-elect , whose campaign was fraught with both false and real issues of religion, has created for his inauguration a faith collage of the culture wars which have racked the nation for four decades. Together , the voices he has...

Frink abuse associated_baptist_press crime_victimization divorce southern_baptist warren | Politics | Friday January 09, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Associated Baptist Press reignited a fire Thursday when it reported : Rick Warren, the Southern Baptist megachurch pastor chosen to offer the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration, says the Bible does not permit a woman to...

Frink bigot marty obama theocracy theocrat warren | Politics | Wednesday January 07, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Saddleback Church's evangelical pastor Rick Warren is not a " bigot ." No, as Martin E. Marty of the University of Chicago Divinity School explains in his current Sightings column, Warren is a theocrat who proclaims that "five issues...

Frink baptisms church_planting fabricated imb inflated international_mission_board missionaries southern_baptist | Spiritual | Tuesday January 06, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Southern Baptist Pastor Wade Burleson suggests that an unduly privileged International Mission Board (IMB) trustees oversee publication of inflated, sometimes fabricated statistics of missionary accomplishment. The IMB , which has missionary operations in...

Buster cults dissociate dissociative_identity_disorder incest pedophiles pedophilia | Family | Sunday January 04, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Do you recall the words , "You're going to make me a lot of money"? While you were eyed , as though you were livestock in a pasture somewhere -- a steer or a gilt on the hoof awaiting sale and slaughter. Years later , did you become a vegetarian? ...

Frink cody dark_humor diablo did dissociative showtime tara | The Arts | Sunday January 04, 2009 | By gwfrink3

A young child's unbearable, inescapable suffering creates Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) . To survive , the child separates the pain into different personalities, usually each with separate memories. DID's origin in almost inexpressible pain makes...

Frink diablo_cody did dissociative_identity_disorder showtime tara | Healthcare | Sunday January 04, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Showtime's United States of Tara is written by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody . The dark-comic show's central character is Tara. Tara suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) , and when stressed cycles with comic effect between her...

Frink diablo_cody did dissociative_identity_disorder showtime tara | The Arts | Friday January 02, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Tara of Showtime's dark-comic United States of Tara has Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and when stressed, cycles rapidly between her four, vocal personalities. Screenwriter Diablo Cody plans to live-tweet her show, when it debuts on Jan. 18,...

Buster carnivorous venus_flytrap wildflower wipeout | Flowers | Friday January 02, 2009 | By gwfrink3

Beautiful, carnivorous and fragile , Venus Flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) are being bulldozed, paved over and trampled to the edge of oblivion. For the time being, they're found in boggy areas of North Carolina coastal plain . If you look hard enough. ...

Buster 2009 flowers flytrap new venus year | Flowers | Thursday January 01, 2009 | By gwfrink3

These are Venus Flytraps with flowers (Dionaea muscipula), photographed by Claude W. Rankin, Jr., with the help of his wife, Josephine Moore Rankin, in the spring of 1968 in a wet, Brunswick County, N.C. , forest glade. Venus Flytraps are rare , protected...

Frink General | Thursday January 01, 2009 | By gwfrink3

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Buster fired holiday_stress ministers pastors | MedSci | Wednesday December 31, 2008 | By gwfrink3

Amid the holiday celebrations this one-time prospective divinity school student casts a fugitive eye at pastors who cross his path, wondering which may be driven to the post-holiday declarations which involve the cleaning out of desks and packing of boxes...

Frink abstinence bush foreign-aid obama pepfar pledges rick_warren virginity | Healthcare | Tuesday December 30, 2008 | By gwfrink3

Premarital teenage virginity pledges don't delay premarital sex and do result in more unsafe sex, concluded a large, well-designed study by Janet E. Rosenbaum at the Johns Hopkins School Bloomberg School of Public Health . Earlier, nonpartisan ...