Some groovy posts from the good folks at The Daily Scribe:

1. Blogickal is back after some star-crossed blog difficulties.
2. Musings points out the rapid growth of the progressive Christian community and asks for hands for the harvest.
3. Jspot wants to know if progressive Christian leader Jim Wallis had declared war on the secular left.
4. Atheist Daniel Dennett critiques the arrogance of fellow-atheist Richard Dawkins. (Arbitrary Marks)
5. Finally, Nathan Colquhoun makes a link between consumerism and dating.

This costume is totally not gay!

According to a new report by the LA-based, libertarian Reason Foundation, all Atlanta needs to solve its traffic needs are $25 billion worth of toll lanes and, yes, tunnels—count ’em, three—under the city. Sure, they admit their cost estimates are low balls (by a factor of seven). Sure, they dismiss mass transit out of hand. Sure, their toll revenue estimates are overly optimistic.

But libertarians like the idea of toll roads. So they have to work, right? Right?

One of the proposed paths doesn’t seem that off to me—it extends 400 south until it connects to 675. But a tunnel? Cause the Big Dig went so well. All in all, they’re proposing about 25 miles of tunnels. How long was the Big Dig? Five miles? Ten, tops?

Obviously, Atlanta doesn’t need a top notch transit system that takes people from where they live to where they want to go. It doesn’t need a Northern Arc so folks doing a Cobb-Gwinett commute can skip the Perimeter. What Atlanta needs is a twenty-year construction boondoggle and some smiling California libertarians.

In good news, it looks like a new commuter line may open inside of two years, and Cobb County just decided to link up with MARTA.

Peacebang tells us that a sacred story shouldn’t bore anyone to death. Like Paul’s did.

#1: Mandatory homosexuality. #2: Drug-filled condoms in schools. Read the rest.

Slate.com makes a good stab at it.