They call them the “Night Dwellers” – a ghostly parade of hundreds of children trudging in silence along the dirt roads of northern Uganda. Each night they come from the outlying districts into the town centres to sleep in open spaces to avoid being kidnapped by the child soldiers of Africa’s strangest rebel group, The [...]

I am a stranger here. I always was.
I have troubled the earth with my footsteps
And found no place to be comforted. As a child
I said to Heaven, Is this my home?”
And He did not answer. I found no peace,
No warm roof, no laughing fire, no warm hands,
No language I ever learned to speak. I can
Only [...]

One can speak truth to power, but what good is it to speak truth to straw? Or worse, to the “passionate intensity” of which another poet spoke, the very stuff of which nightmares are made?
Redwood Dragon looks at conservatism.
Correction: Redwood Dragon looks at the conservative movement and makes a distinction between the two terms.

Michelle Malkin looks at the mobility of blogs.
She takes a ‘lesser known’ US blogger to task for complaining that blogs are seling out as they comercialize. The former blogger has an op-ed in the LA Times.
It was intoxicating while it lasted, as was the sense of community I found with my readers. At the peak [...]

Are you officer material according the the US Air Force?
A sample test is online.
In the interests of fair disclosure, I just passed. My math and electrical skills were dismal, verbal, spacial and organizational got me though. No surprises.
Good thing I never wanted to be an officer.

relapsed catholic is a Canadian blogging legend.
Kathy Shaidle started blogging in 2000, and has gotten world wide attention for her acerbic style, quick wit and steady posting.
The blogosphere, St. Blogs ( a relapsed catholic original) and the god-blogs wouldn’t be the same without her.
Happy blogday!
4 years and still at it! Ha!!! That is really [...]

In 2002, religious orders that use a church in Jerusalem got into a fist fight over a chair.
This year, a brawl broke out over an open door.
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Coptic Church of Egypt
Greek and Russian Orthodox
Franciscans
Okay that’s five of the six groups that fight regularly over the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. There are claims it [...]

Canadian Hydro crews are on their way to Florida.
This is the second group of workers and equipment to head to the state to help out.
Three weeks ago 270 Hydro One staff and 130 pieces of equipment headed down.
Hydro One’s Daffyd Roderick said the employees have volunteered because they know how important electricity is.
“These are the [...]