servers on strike

Miscellaneous thoughts today:

Even the servers are not allowed to work for the vatican on Sundays: they go offline. Who doesn't think this is insane??

There's been too much going on, and too little time to report it if I want to pay attention on the motherhood front. I also don't know how much to include here - it could easily be the sole content of this blog, but it wasn't meant to be when I started this - time will tell what the right balance is. It's also my second week back at work (albeit remotely and part-time), which has somewhat brought me back to reality.

Our partner in Uzbekistan has closed shop as the government closed all NGO's. Jordan and Egypt are facing restrictions on NGO activities as well. Iran is no better. And on much sadder personal news, one of African partners was taken by the police and harassed for several hours. She miscarried two days later.

Closer to home, televangelist and political power broker Rev. Pat Robertson calls feminism a "socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - that's a tall order... as mentioned in http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2663.

While on the topic of Women's eNews, I cannot recommend their Comentoon strongly enough. It is hilarious, always on point, never disappointing: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/context/commentoon for the latest and all archives at http://www.womensenews.org/archive_results.cfm/dyn/cat/19. Enjoy!

... and that'll be all for this week as I start my work day. Be well.