One of these days

"One of these days I'm going to stop talking about potential with you and start talking about missed opportunities."

All I Want For Christmas Is...

This isn't so much a blog as it's a note that I'm pinning down for my own future reference. I suck at naming off gifts that I want (whether it be Christmas or my birthday or whatever) so I'm doing it here before I forget.

I'm well aware that this is pretty late in the 2008 shopping season, genius strikes at random times.

I want:
As many different Dr. Seuss books as I can get my hands on.
The new Thrice DVD
Crazy Straws
Home Alone 1 and 2
Those binded collections of Calvin and Hobbes comic strips
The Watchmen graphic novel (come next Christmas it'll probably be the DVD as well)
The following Batman graphic novels: The Long Halloween, Arkham Asylum, The Killing Joke, The Dark Night Returns, and Year One
A deer rifle

to be continued.

I hate christians some times.

Are you freakin' serious?

This makes me want to stab someone with a crucifix. This is right up there with the Remington Bolt-Action rifle being created on the third day to hunt the dinosaurs and the homosexuals.

I hate the fact that mainstream christians are incapable of using their own creativity to make something original. I hope Jesus punches you in the throat.

Lastly, father, unify us.

Donald Miller had the closing Benediction at the Democratic National Convention this week.

I don't care how you feel about the man, he's on to something.

"Father God,

This week, as the world looks .. the leaders in this room create a civil dialogue about our future.

We need you, God, as individuals and also as a nation.

We need you to protect us from our enemies, but also from ourselves, because we are
easily tempted toward apathy.

Give us a passion to advance opportunities for the least of these, for widows and orphans, for single moms and children whose fathers have left.

Give us the eyes to see them, and the ears to hear them, and hands willing to serve them.

Help us serve people, not just causes. And stand up to specific injustices rather than vague notions.

Give those in this room who have power, along with those who will meet next week, the courage to work together to finally provide health care to those who don't have any, and a living wage so families can thrive rather than struggle.

Help us figure out how to pay teachers what they deserve and give children an equal opportunity to get a college education.

Help us figure out the balance between economic opportunity and corporate gluttony.
We have tried to solve these problems ourselves but they are still there. We need your help.

Father, will you restore our moral standing in the world.

A lot of people don't like us but that's because they don't know the heart of the average American.

Will you give us favor and forgiveness, along with our allies around the world.

Help us be an example of humility and strength once again.

Lastly, father, unify us.

Even in our diversity help us see how much we have in common.

And unify us not just in our ideas and in our sentiments—but in our actions, as we look around and figure out something we can do to help create an America even greater than the one we have come to cherish.

God we know that you are good.

Thank you for blessing us in so many ways as Americans.

I make these requests in the name of your son, Jesus, who gave his own life against the forces of injustice.

Let Him be our example.

Amen."