Daily Archives: 05/05/2005

covens not welcome in va

Don’t theocons show up in the most inappropriate places? Now they show up in Chesterfield County, Virginia, where a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals judge ruled that the county Board of Supervisors (i.e. the people who run the county) “did not show impermissible motive” in refusing to permit a pantheistic invocation by a Wiccan. Why, …

05/05/2005 – 14:28 | By randomduck | Posted in politics, theocons | Comments (1)

elections in the uk (and a lesson for the us)

Today is the general election in the UK. I love the way they run elections: you announce the election with as little as one month’s notice, campaign like hell for 30-odd days, and then the nation votes. People vote for their local ministers in the House of Commons and the party that wins the majority, …

05/05/2005 – 12:35 | By randomduck | Posted in politics | Comments Off