Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 30th, 2005
So, as I noted a couple of days ago (God visits our public school), "Uncle Sam" had visited the assembly at our son's public elementary school and had made comments about "In God we trust" and "God our creator" that got our atheistic humanist hackles up. I said we'd ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Since I got that out of my system, here are a couple of notes from Oz world, posted while the parental self-loathing is at ebb:He came home from kindergarten with a rubber wristband that says "Make a difference". So we asked him what that meant. He explained that ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
Hey, if a little schadenfreude is ever in order, this would be a time: That steaming hypocritical loaf of turd Tom "The Hammer" DeLay has been indicted (see The Hammer Comes Down). As the Post notes, "We have, at the moment, a remarkable situation: The Senate majority leader ...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
I just thought nobody cared. And maybe almost nobody does. But a kind visitor pointed out that commenting was broken. It's fixed now. Sorry to anybody who took the time to comment without it showing up.
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Our neighborhood public school here in Troy NY where Oz now goes to kindergarten has an assembly every Monday and Friday morning to which parents are invited. Along with maybe a couple of dozen other parents, I sometimes go. Songs, awards, announcements -- you know.
But they also do ...
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
You've likely heard: Some parents in the Dover, PA district that's been inserting ID into the curriculum are suing the district for violating the separation of church and state.
This will likely be the biggest trial in 20 years or so dealing with all this shit. We won in ...
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
So, the U.S. House OKs Faith As Head Start Hiring Issue. That is, if this bill becomes law, religious groups will be able to get federal Head Start grants, but also refuse to hire people who don't share their religion.
So we're getting federally-funded programs, supposedly aimed at enriching the ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
In his post What I Have Learned From Listening to Judge Roberts, Alan Dershowitz says that mostly, Roberts as Chief Justice would be a pretty status-quo kind of guy with respect to abortion, death penalty, gay rights, and other "hot-button" issues.
The one big exception to that tendency that he notes: ...
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
When I was in my pre-parental life-stage, I used to despise parents who thought "cute" stories about their kids were somehow entertaining to the rest of us. (In fact, when the subject of my possibly becoming a parent at some point would come up, I'd often say "I like ...
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Sunday, September 18th, 2005
Or so Oz tells me. So, his web page is updated, and it links to his very own Flickr gallery, with both photos and art work.
OK, it's mostly so we can share pictures with people without subjecting them to my penchant for 70's porn ads and horrible Christian album ...
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