interesting article about a lesbian who had a child with her "partner" through artificial insemination...and she's now claiming the courts shouldn't have let her partner adopt her child (something she originally pushed the court to do).
Is the outrage she has raised among that homosexual community at all concerned with the child in this situation, or are they only irate over the fact that she seems to be pushing for something which could "set gay rights back a century"?
What seems even more interesting here is the morality of the situation. Are the people dictating to the court what should be allowed (and thusly moral), or is the court dictating to the people what is right (and thusly moral). Or are there just laws with morality floating out there somewhere in the air, sometimes being reflected in law, sometimes not?
Finally, how can those who have no moral authority outside themselves expect others to accept and adhere to the morality they prescribe when that individual, on the same grounds as the first, has established his or her own morality which conflicts with that of the first?
If everyone can determine his or her own morality, is there any absoluteness at all about morality? If there can be no absoluteness about morality, why do we even worry about the facade of maintaining it?
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saturday, March 17, 2007
cool little program...
Found this new program on PCWorld.com. It's called "Launchy". You can find it on launchy.net. Basically, it's a rip off the Windows Vista function which allows you to hit the 'windows' key and type in a program name and the OS searches for the program it thinks you will want to open. "Launchy" works the same way, but in XP, and with a different key combination to open it. Pretty snazzy. I think it's a pretty cool way to open programs, because, I don't know about ya'll, but I hate opening the start menu and having to go through all those different folders and programs to find the one I want.
Not sure if you'll enjoy this, but it's worth checking out. Completely free. Let me konw what you think about it. I'm going to put it in the "free stuff" section of my website within the next few days.
Not sure if you'll enjoy this, but it's worth checking out. Completely free. Let me konw what you think about it. I'm going to put it in the "free stuff" section of my website within the next few days.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
A little crunch in the Chicken Helper...
Alrighty, interesting story, if you care... I was making some Hamburger Helper last night. First thing I changed was the meat, because my wife didn't feel like beef, so we substituted chicken. All we had were chicken tenders, and I wasn't sure how many would have made up a pound - so I guessed. I think I was a little short of a pound in that arena. I was making the cheesey enchilada meal - which is very good, I might add. It doesn't use noodles, but rather an interesting form of rice.
To make a long story short, after following all the directions and letting it simmer for awhile, it still had a "soupy" consistency. I figured that probably due to switching to chicken and me maybe not using enough meat, I needed less water to make the meal. Oh well, couldn't go back, so I had to figure out something to contribute to help soak of this excess liquid. Ah, I though, I know. I'll just add some rice (since noodles seemed to be contradictory with the rice). So I grabbed some rice off the shelf - it looked the same as the rice that had come with the original hamburger helper meal.
So the rice did the trick nicely and helped soak up the excess liquid. When I told my wife what I had done, I'll admit, I was a little proud of my clever solution to the problem. She, on the other hand, was quite dubious, stopping short of laughing out loud (which was very tactful of her, I might add).
Finally we pray and eat, she allowing me to be the guinea pig for my creation. Not so bad, I say, just a wee bit 'o crunch to the meal.
Yeah, that's right, "crunch" and hamburger helper aren't really supposed to go hand in hand. I don't think I've ever chewed a Helper meal so much. I think we spent the first 5 minutes of our meal laughing between bites because it was just so, well, weird.
So, all you Helper manics out there, note that the rice which comes in the Helper meal is not the same as that which resides on the shelves in your kitchen. Though, if you want a meal with a little different "feal", you might want to try adding it in...
To make a long story short, after following all the directions and letting it simmer for awhile, it still had a "soupy" consistency. I figured that probably due to switching to chicken and me maybe not using enough meat, I needed less water to make the meal. Oh well, couldn't go back, so I had to figure out something to contribute to help soak of this excess liquid. Ah, I though, I know. I'll just add some rice (since noodles seemed to be contradictory with the rice). So I grabbed some rice off the shelf - it looked the same as the rice that had come with the original hamburger helper meal.
So the rice did the trick nicely and helped soak up the excess liquid. When I told my wife what I had done, I'll admit, I was a little proud of my clever solution to the problem. She, on the other hand, was quite dubious, stopping short of laughing out loud (which was very tactful of her, I might add).
Finally we pray and eat, she allowing me to be the guinea pig for my creation. Not so bad, I say, just a wee bit 'o crunch to the meal.
Yeah, that's right, "crunch" and hamburger helper aren't really supposed to go hand in hand. I don't think I've ever chewed a Helper meal so much. I think we spent the first 5 minutes of our meal laughing between bites because it was just so, well, weird.
So, all you Helper manics out there, note that the rice which comes in the Helper meal is not the same as that which resides on the shelves in your kitchen. Though, if you want a meal with a little different "feal", you might want to try adding it in...
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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