Good Advice for tomorrow...

via Stephanie Trigg

I love my Wife...

this series of emails just now:

Wife: how do you spell wordhoard (wordhorde?)
me: wordhoard
as in, treasury of words, rather than rampaging barbarian words
Wife: AHAHA I like the idea of rampaging barbarian words!
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!! I think that's a neologism to your credit, my
girl!
Wife: No, seriously, a group of words which are evil and invading a
language. Like the vocab of corporate-speak would be a wordhorde. Or
Americanisms. Or indeed the use of tastic.
Wordhorde.
I LIKE it.

crusaders for intelligence, to me! *waves large banner in the midst of the STUPIDTY*

This email from a sweet but, well, silly friend of mine just now:

> All,
> There will be a new children's movie out in December called "The
> Golden Compass". The movie has been described as "atheism for kids"
> and is based on the first book of a trilogy entitled "His Dark
> Materials" that was written by Phillip Pullman. Pullman is a
> Militant atheist and secular humanist who despises C. S. Lewis and the
> "Chronicles of Narnia". His motivation for writing this trilogy was
> specifically to counteract Lewis' symbolisms of Christ that are
> portrayed in the Narnia series.( clearly, Pullman's main objective is to bash Christianity and promote Athiesm )

I usually let emails from this person slide, on the grounds that there's little i can do and it will only get her back up. But I couldn't let this one slide...

( 101 reasons why you shouldn't boycott The Golden Compass, ESPECIALLY if you're a conservative inclined to think it's attacking your faith )

While we're here:

Pullman talks about C.S. Lewis
Pullman talks to Rowan Williams
Wikipedia talks about Pullman