There is no knowing the Evil Eyebrow
The Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps and famous for picketing military funerals (because the U.S. Military is a vast gay-love association), blaming the Columbia diaster on the United States’ support of homosexuals and abortion ,and blaming 9-11 on God’s punishment of the U.S., etc., will be attending the funerals of the students killed …
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A study published this month concludes that abstinence only sex education is not effective in changing the behaviors of teens. A silver lining, if you can call it that, is that there was no measurable difference between the study group and the control group. So, the abstinence only education did not negatively affect the rates …
A web site mini-essay linked here talks about the ladder of appreciation for photographic skill. This person has a very good point. It’s easy to identify what got you to a certain skill level, but it’s more difficult to see how to take the next step. It’s just like watching professional sports. “How do they …
I was sitting in the Atlanta Airport this morng, waiting for my flight to Baltimore. CNN, otherwise known as “news channel that used to be good” was covering in detail the story of Anna Nicole Smith’s child and the DNA test proving boyfriend #4a was the father. Thankfully, after 10 minutes of that coverage, they …
The NY Times reports today on a movement to enhance civility in the blogosphere. This code is based partly on the BlogHer community guidelines and a draft is delineated here and here. This code was founded directly or indirectly due to a flamewar on a blog posting that was interpreted as misogynistic with threatening overtones …
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As you may have gathered from the previous postings here and here, I attended the inaugural ING Georgia Marathon last weekend in and around Atlanta. I confess some disappointment with the organization of the race. I know several people who ran this race and they all complained about the way in which it was operated. …
The state legislators A few of the State Legislators of Georgia apparently had nasty things to say about the Atlanta Police department after last Thursday’s traffic snafu in downtown. Rep. Edward Lindsey (R-Atlanta) said. “Yesterday, you let down the citizens of Atlanta, our commuters, and our guests to these great conventions. This is simply unacceptable …
19 book reviews on the 14th of January. 315 pages per book(taken from the Amazon.com statistics, which admittedly, contain blank pages and title pages, etc.) 5,984 pages in one day. I’m impressed, as always, by Ms. Harriet Klausner. Useless crap.
Grandad has written a Letter to America. I’ve responded in the comments with my take on his points. However, I’d like to address a letter back to Ireland. [Ahem] Hmmmm… Crap, I don’t know anything about Ireland. I know it’s the Emerald Isle and there’s no snakes and my friends John and Jeannette had a …
I was popped into the Safe Roads.org website today, looking for some traffic safety data. I found this logo. My very first thought was, “What is ‘dvocates in ction?’” I like the A-on-a-warning-sign logo, but I don’t think using it for a letter in a word is appropriate. If we’re training drivers to see and …