Meriah Lysistrata Crawford

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Random notes

A bunch of lunatics in Virginia (surprise, surprise!) proclaimed recently that Thomas Jefferson “feigned belief in God to achieve his own political ends and came to sever Jesus Christ from his divinity.” It’s no revelation that some Christians are opposed to religious freedom – except for Christianity, that is, but the notion that keeping religion out of government is anti-Christian, and anti-God has become more common in recent years, and it’s a frightening notion. It threatens the religious freedom that this country was founded on. Given how many people are already comfortable with the notion of tossing out the first amendment and embracing torture, it’s not a good sign.

Something I learned while perusing Encarta today: No nobility exists in the United States. Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution of the United States specifies that no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and in addition it forbids any person holding government office from accepting any such title from a foreign ruler without the express consent of Congress. A private American citizen who accepts a title of nobility automatically resigns his or her citizenship.

This is a particularly harsh blow, as I had harbored dreams of someday being made a duchess. Dang.

Here’s a fun quiz to test your knowledge of the first lines of “great” novels. I got 11 out of 13. Can you beat me? http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_61/Famous_First_Words_A_Novel_Quiz.html

And another quiz: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_149/How_Bookish_Are_You.html

Three words that should never be used in fiction: sphincter, scrotum, preternatural.

Happy Days…

2 Comments:

  • You seriously need to update your blog. Tell some cool P.I. stories or something.

    Select "word verification" in your settings and you won't SPAM like the other comment here.

    Oh, and I tied your score on the novel quiz.

    By Blogger Patrick Shawn Bagley, at 8:49 AM  

  • Hey Patrick - your wish is my command. Or something like that. Thanks for the tip about word verification. It's on now.

    I'm going to try and update this thing weeklyish. Don't hold me to it. :-)

    Meriah...

    By Blogger Meriah Crawford, at 2:07 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home