I've gone back and forth in my feelings on this story. As I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago, the first time I heard of this story I thought it was a joke. There's no way, I told myself, that any Muslim group would want to build a mosque on top of Ground Zero! They'd know there would be protesting.
Then I found out that it was real, and I also found out that the mosque wasn't actually being built on Ground Zero itself but was instead going to be about 200 yards away, and that it was going to be just part of a larger project, and I thought, Who cares? It's actually kind of nice that a Muslim group wants to build a mosque dedicated to peace in that area.
But now I've rethought the whole thing. I still don't personally have a problem with the mosque being built there, but if there ARE people offended, I think the group planning to build the mosque should cancel the project and build their mosque somewhere else.
It's not that they don't have a right to build it there--they do. But why--when you're already a group with a target on your back--make things worse?
Google Wave was supposed to be the next generation communication tool, that would replace email the same way that email pretty much replaced fax machines. But yesterday Google announced it would no longer be supporting Google Wave.
I was as excited as the next person to try out Google Wave when it was first announced. After about a month of waiting I got my account, logged in, and...and..and..I couldn't figure out what all of the fuss was about. It pretty much just seemed to me like an email account with an instant messenger and a file transfer ability in it. It wasn't nearly as revolutionary as it was evolutionary. So I think I logged in a total of five times before deciding to forget about it.
I can't believe in three months that I haven't written a WORD about the BP oil spill on my blog. I guess the reason that I haven't, though, is that I've felt so powerless to do anything about it. I'm glad that the well has been capped, and I know everyone is mad at BP, but the blame really has to be placed on everyone. We need to find alternative fuels to oil and then we won't have to do ever increasingly dangerous things to try to get oil.
I think the writing is on the wall in regards to gay marriage, and that conservatives might as well give up this losing fight. I still waffle in my feelings about gay marriage. On one hand, the word "marriage" has ALWAYS meant the union in spirit and body of a man and woman, NOT of just any two people. Look at any dictionary written in previous decades and that's how it will be defined, and I hate the idea of us changing the definitions of words just to satisfy some political correctness.
On the other hand, the words "human being" used to ALWAYS mean homo sapiens who WEREN'T African, so it's okay for the meaning of words to change as our moral conscience changes.
I still think that my solution to the gay marriage debate is the best solution!
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