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Just got a MySpace friends request from Satan. Sigh. They’ll let anybody on there now.
For two years now, the number of baptisms performed in Southern Baptist congregations has dropped, giving the denomination a lackluster 1% increase in members, well below the national “replacement rate.” Does this make them one of those moribund, declining mainline denominations now?
I’m going through a snark crisis. Chutney is an old blogger. I remember the old days, back when me and Philocrites were the only UU bloggers either of us knew about. Then we (and by “we,” I mean Philocrites) stumbled on a few more blogs, back when Peacebang and Boy in the Bands were getting […]
Thursday night after dinner my wife started getting some bad stomach cramps. Then worse stomach cramps. Then nine on a ten scale painful stomach cramps. So off to the ER we went. She has Crohn’s disease and got about a foot of her colon taken out seven years ago, so anything GI-related is serious business […]
A new study shows a very interesting correlation between national SSRI use—SSRIs are Prozac and its kin—and the national suicide rate. Since 2000, SSRI rates have gone up 12%; suicide rates have declined 5%. (Sorry, no link. Atlantic Monthly isn’t link friendly.)
First, a shout out to Will Shetterly for his shout out for my recent bipolar post. And a second out shout to his commenter Chris McLaren, who points out a BBC piece hosted by comedian Stephen Fry called “The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.”