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What the state asks for, the state gets

October 3, 2008

Six chaplains in Virginia have resigned, dozens more have signed a protest letter and there’s talk of having a rally outside the governor’s pad on November 1, just a few days before the election.  All allege that they’re the victims of religious persecution. In this case it’s persecution because the state enacted a policy forbidding [...]

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Ike was here…

September 16, 2008

And he tore up our neighbour’s fence. Besides some trees that were uprooted/snapped, that appears to be the worst of the damage in our neighbourhood.  We all have electricity, water and cable as of tonight so we’re sitting pretty compared to the rest of the region. And that’s about it. I’m just too damned tired [...]

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Evolution vs. Creationism, the Texas version

June 4, 2008

It looks like Texas is planning to enter the “debate” over the teaching of evolution. After fighting for nearly three years about how to teach children to read, the Texas Board of Education has decided to take on the science curriculum this summer. One of the goals of the board is to undermine the teaching [...]

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Note to Linguistic Fascists

May 5, 2008

If you’re going to demand that people speak English, you should make it a priority to learn how to spell English. via: Immigration Chronicles: Perhaps spell check is in order …

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First patriotism, now God soaked patriotism?

February 12, 2008

Our daughter just started school this year and it’s been wonderful to see her slowly get past her bashfulness. Getting her to talk, even to say if something hurt was like pulling teeth with pliers made out of play dough. Getting her talk to even family members was about impossible and strangers speaking to her [...]

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What’s new in racism

January 30, 2008

The scandal involving District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal here in Houston has brought to light a new way to be a racist without actually saying anything “racist”.  The word is “Canadian” as in “a couple of Canadians on the jury felt sorry for the defendent and convicted him of a lesser charge”.  The Canadians in question?  [...]

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Pious fraud caught up in sex scandal

January 18, 2008

For the last couple of weeks the local media has been somewhat in a tizzy about a scandal at the district attorney’s office. Having lived in Texas for about a decade or so now, I blew it off because there might as well be wall to wall coverage on the surprise finding that grass is [...]

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Governor Good-Hair Stumping for Faith

July 26, 2006

Our esteemed leader Governor Perry is stumping for public funding for faith groups and has made no bones about it. He wants the general public to fund the religious acts of select people: “There are a great many who have heard a calling of service and have answered with the words of Isaiah, ‘Here am [...]

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