Friday Reads

South Dakota has passed a draconian measure banning the likes of RU486, but the law won't be implemented unless or until the courts give the okay. 

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I hate to break it to Pat Robertson, now in his nineties, but Armageddon already happened.  It happened some 2,000 years ago with the fall of Jerusalem, which, according to reputable theologians, is what the Book of Revelation was about.  The prophecies already happened except for the return of Christ.  

Charismatic and pentecostal denominations are bastardizations of Christianity.  No reputable scholar takes them seriously although the ideas of these groups are terrifying now that these groups have gained so much political power.

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Some good news for women comes out of Washington state.

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Obituary:  Actor Tim Considine, 81(!), known for his work on television including the sixties sitcom My Three Sons, died.

I can't believe these actors are that old who played children or teens back in the fifties and sixties.

Snip:

Timothy Daniel Considine was born in 1940 on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles. His father, John W. Considine Jr., was an MGM-based producer on the Oscar best picture nominees Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)and Boys Town (1938); his mother, Carmen, was the daughter of theater tycoon Alexander Pantages. (Actress Marion Davies, the mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, served as maid of honor at his parents’ wedding at L.A.’s Ambassador Hotel in 1932.)

He said Skelton had a huge influence on him as they worked on The Clown, a remake of the 1931 tearjerker The Champ, starring Jackie Cooper.

“I didn’t know anything about acting, I probably never did,” he said. “I was very intimidated by the whole deal. He just made me love him, and I really related to him as a father.”