Unitarian Minister 'e say 'Yeeeeah'!!!

... so the cartoon below will be appearing on their website.  I'm wondering where their administrator will put it though ...

He's also interested in producing a set of six postcards/greetings cards along this line, which seems to me to be a rather healthy thing for a (notionally) religious organisation to be doing.  I have to say that researching all this stuff has been great fun;  one of my favourites is 'Unitarian Jihad'

Here's a quote from it:

Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.

At Puflet Palace, we look at life, the universe and everything.

'A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he knows not what.'

(Somerset Maugham)

This is a cartoon I have just sent to the Minister of the Unitarian Church at Kingswood, to put on their website.

Eek! And yike! Even scarier news ...

Listening to Radio 4 does nothing to help your feelings of being at one with the universe (or even at half-past-one with the universe - thanks Keith!).

Gordon Brown is now saying that he's turning his attention to dentistry.  If previous government initiatives are anything to go by, getting dental treatment really will be like pulling teeth ... and this against a background of people extracting their own molars with pliers, and sticking back errant crowns with superglue ... or maybe it's an initiative to abolish obesity by ensuring that nobody's able to eat on account of not having any teeth ...

Scary News

I heard on the news today (It was Radio 4, so it goes to show how serious it was)  - a guvverment announcement that obesity is now a greater threat than climate change.  They reckon that by 2050, half the adults in the UK will be obese.  Sorry ... but as big a threat as climate change? (You'd have to be VERY VERY obese to be that big!)

I can't see what function announcements like that have, other than to encourage overweight people who already have problems with self-esteem to feel even worse about themselves.

And, besides - what is the nature of the threat?  That the obese 50% of the population will sit on the other 50% and squash them?

Illustration Friday - Extremes!

Incy-wincy spider was very small, but her wide web was very effectively dominating the world!

This is a picture of my desktop

I've been tagged by Paula;  this time the purpose of the tagging, rather than revealing the secrets of your underwear drawer and other eccentricities, is to provide a screenshot of your desk top. And share it on your blog with the rest of the world!

To do this, you go to :  Print Screen (next to F12 key)
Open Potatoshop or other picture editing software
Paste the image
Save for web
Publish in normal way on blog.  If you like, you can offer an explanation as to why you have a picture of a Patagonian killer rat or exotic surgical equipment, or even so many icons that there isn't room for a background.

I'm offering no excuses or justifications for this one.  

Then you go and tag 5 friends;  mine have been chosen on the basis that they're likely to have interesting images:

Chichi Parish
Shaky Mouse
Fidget's Widgets
Widget's Seedpot
Raven Madness

Illustration Friday - OPEN