In Prop 8 Ruling the Constitution Triumphed Over Theocracy

It's been awhile but I'm back and in full swing from surgery. I've been posting again at A Heathen's Day and I've new pieces at both GodsOwnParty.com/blogs and at Politicususa.com. My latest is In Prop 8 Ruling the Constitution Triumphed Over Theocracy

From the Bronze Age to the Enlightenment...and Back?

My new article on Pagan+Politics, inspired by the American Family Association's demand to stone a killer whale and SeaWorld Orlando's curator, deals with the issue of projecting ancient law codes into the present. You can find it here.

America the Progressive

I've begun a new blog to replace Restitutor Orbis. It was a choice of trying to change the direction of that blog or outright replacing it and I went with the latter option. I feel the only real hope at this point for America is a return to the Enlightenment - a Progressive Renaissance - thus the name. The call for change has gone missing, as has change itself, except incrementally.

My new article there is America the Progressive, a refutation of claims put forward by The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

Lost in the Aether

A Heathen's Day is temporarily out of action due to technical issues related to the host. I hope it will be back up soon, but I can only guarantee that it WILL be back up. The question of "when" is iffy. I'm looking into some options right now, including GoDaddy (which hosts www.mosmaiorum.org) and Network Solutions. For the duration of the blog's downtime, A View From the Bog will be my home.

Tiw's Day

I think I finally have this blog pretty much set up to my satisfaction. I have to keep in mind that this is my personal space. I have a place for politics and another for religion and I even set one up for fantasy football. But here I can talk about any old thing I want, which is kind of freeing. For two long Heathen's Day had to be host to whatever whim I put it to.

I spent most of the morning catching up on my blogging and on responding to news stories on digg, and arguing with a few conservative die-hards along the way. I also did today's post on Restitutor Orbis, a little earlier than I generally do, but there was a lot to report already today and I can always post an update later for breaking news.

I also played Star Wars Battlefront (the first one) with my little boy on XBox. He really enjoys that and it's a little more enjoyable for me to have somebody to play with, even if he doesn't actually shoot too many bad guys. I kind of got the boot today, though. He told me he wanted to take a break, at which point I hear familiar sounds coming from the livingroom and discover that he's STILL playing, but without me. So apparently, the break was from papa. I told him I thought he was taking a break and he got all grumpy on me, like he'd been caught out. He got even grumpier when I told him I wasn't going to play his TMNT game with him. I'm very tired of that particular game and especially the sound effects.

I've been nursing a headache since Saturday and I'm really hoping it will finally go away. Makes it hard to do anything when the side of your head is throbbing. I have more I want to do on Mos Maiorum, like updating the articles to include the new CSS for footnotes, but that's going to be hard until the headache is gone. The same goes for painting that Dark Eldar army I was talking about the other day. I did find those nice illustrations on the Games Workshop site so at least I have some ideas how to paint them. My old Dark Eldar army was red with black. Not sure what I'll use this time. I'm thinking some black and purple like the Baltimore Ravens. Very ominous.

And speaking of football, I have my fantasy football blog set up, or at least partly set up, as I noted above. I'm going to have a site to host statistics but I thought it would be fun to blog a little about it. I've wanted to but have generally restrained myself from posting ff info on Heathen's Day. Obviously, I won't be doing a lot with it until things get going during the off-season (particularly the draft). I put a little NFL widget on it for news updates. I can add more once the season gets going again. Until then I plan to post a little on strategy, etc, but there is no rush.

Back to the grind!

Blogging from the Bog

I have been blogging for going on four years now, off and on. I started haltingly, not really sure if I wanted to get into this new venture. But as time went on, I became more comfortable with the idea and began blogging in earnest. This will be my third blog, a sort of "master" or "coordinating" blog to keep track of all my online ventures, including websites. I like to think of it as my "tactical operations center."

This blog will be used to update people on what I'm up to, mostly online. A little bit of my personal life creeps through my other posts, and feel no real need to focus an entire blog on me personally. I really don't find myself all that exciting.

I'm more interested in education and in sharing, in making people stop and think. And that works both ways. I want to be educated; I want to be shared with; and I want people to make ME stop and think. I agree with the old adage that the day we stop learning is the day we stop living.

Here I will include links to all my endeavors online, including the Mos Maiorum Foundation and its associated forums. Also my Ezine, Ancestral Traditions. I have provided links to my other blogs, and to other places I can be found on the Net, including CenterLeft.info and Sarah Palin's GOP, as well as Associated Content, a new venture for which I am developing a couple of ideas.