I have been told that the guy in the passenger seat reminds people of me. I am inclined to agree. The driver reminds me of Jonathan Carroll. He and I did, in fact, have a rather fun interaction with a Taco Bell sometime circa 1998, but I can’t remember what we did.

While nothing beats Coldplay’s music video for The Scientist in my mind, I was recently shown this one. Had to share it.

Nearly 40 protesters arrested at Notre Dame (AP)

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Nearly 40 people were arrested Sunday as they tried to enter the University of Notre Dame to protest President Barack Obama’s appearance at commencement, police said.

At least 39 people were taken into custody on trespassing charges, police Sgt. Bill Redman said. Among those arrested were Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff identified as “Roe” in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. She now opposes abortion.

I forgot that Roe is pro-life. Just found that interesting.

There’s a new-found rage in me now when I read things like this:

Sunsara Taylor, a New York City resident and a member of the abortion-rights group Abortion on Demand, said outside the school’s gates that “there was a voice missing” in the controversy over Obama’s visit.

“If women don’t have a right to decide if they have a child, women aren’t free,” she said. “We need to expand abortion access and abortion rights and lift the stigma. Fetuses are not babies and women are not incubators.”

Of course, the AP has to find some person to disagree with the protestors. This sort of poetical painting of the decision to snuff out a viable life in the name of “choice” is utter horse%$#!. It’s as bad, no, worse than the South’s protest of their choice to exercise state’s rights to enslave another human being who, at that time, was not always regarded as fully human.

I just think of all the things I’ve been trying to do to preserve and protect the life of Jude ever since we found out we were pregnant, and how he had no way to protect himself except us. This morning, he decided to sleep in instead of doing his morning aerobics, and both Rosanna and I freaked out.

Don’t insult the true lives who don’t have a voice by complaining about the freedom of women to murder their offspring. No amount of painting it over with the label “choice” changes what’s going on.

Abort73.com

John Piper, in his sermon, “He Who Sows Bountifully Will Reap Bountifully“

The more you give, the more you will be able to give. And if it is more blessed to give than to receive, you can see what a harvest of joy this will mean.

It could be said that giving is an opposite of lust. Lust consumes and consumes and gets and gets and is never satisfied. It’s like a flame that keeps on burning, and anything it gets ahold of is consumed, and still it continues to burn. When you give into lust, you become an incessant consumer.

Lust destroys everything around it.

Giving, on the other hand, produces more opportunities to give, as well as more resources to give. Instead of destroying what is around it, giving gives life to the things around it.

Just wanting to pass on a blog that I’ve found to be stimulating, helpful, and useful. It’s by my friend, Doug Stuart. He’s been putting a lot of thought into economics and politics lately, and his perspective is one I respect. At the very least, you will be challenged by what you read. Liveloud.net I’d recommend for starters: 1. Why I Care 2. Inflation and the Poor 3. Privatization of Roads and Highways 4. Michelle Obama tells students to “give back”

Just discovered a useful little website called Instapaper. It allows you to make instant bookmarks of websites you come across that you want to read later on the same device or another. In its own words, here’s how it works:

1. You find something you want to read, but you don’t have time now. You click [Read Later] (which is a bookmarklet you add to your web browser ~ Rob).

2. When you have time to read, you come here on your computer or phone and get whatever you wanted to read. What’s really neat is that my two favorite iPhone Twitter clients, TwitterFon** and Tweetie, support this service. That way, when I see an interesting article, I simply hit a couple of buttons, and it’s instantly in my “To Read” list on Instapaper. ** Note that the forthcoming Pro version of TwitterFon will support it, not the free ad-supported version.

John Gruber:

But it rings untrue to most ears to claim that Apple is doing a bad job with regard to security. The evidence suggests that Mac OS X has been and remains secure enough to be safe, and safety is what real people actually care about. Gruber makes an interesting distinction between safety and security. Security is about technical measures, like the strength of the locks on your doors and windows. Safety is about the likelihood that you’ll actually suffer from some sort of attack. While it may not always be this way, the experience I have had as a Mac user for more than ten years now is that had to worry about viruses or malware. Not once.

Priest Scandal Bottom line, a well-known priest had some pictures leaked of him with his arms around some woman at a beach. Honestly, I don’t meant this post to be a tirade against the foolishness and the wrongness of the vow of celibacy that the Catholic Church requires of its priests. I do love having a wife to put my arm around at the beach. I mean, who wouldn’t? Also, I’m aware of taking heed lest I fall, and I’m not here to point a finger because I find something fundamentally wrong and downright demonic about an institution that bears the name of Jesus that forbids marriage. Think what you want of the scandal, I only wanted to post about what user Smiles 842 said because, admittedly, I got a chuckle out of her outlook as opposed to all the other things I was reading:

10:51 PM May 07 2009 I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m much happier to hear about a priest fondling an adult consenting woman than little boys… p.s. I wouldn’t mind making out with him on a beach, he’s pretty hot.