“Rabbit season!” “Duck season!” That old cartoon argument immediately comes to mind when I see people arguing about which candidate is best, who should run, etc. So much of what is said in politics boils down to arguments that really aren’t much better than the one between Bugs and Daffy. Lots of noise, little care [...]
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It seems an absurd idea to me, but a school in Concord, CA has done just that. They decided that students needed some motivation to boost test scores, and split them up by race to do so.
The whole thing just reeked of stereotypes, if the description of the article is even remotely accurate. Jazz music [...]
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Reading over at Gun Toting Liberal about Alabama working on banning sex toys. Being in California it seems silly to do such a thing. They’re for private use in the home. I know the rant about protecting the public morality, but I don’t agree that banning sex toys would do such a thing.
Let’s face it. [...]
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A lot of things have been outsourced over these past several years. My oldest sister lost a programming job to outsourcing, so you can’t argue to me that it’s only basic jobs such as customer service being sent outside the country. Jobs in the computer and engineering fields are being outsourced regularly.
So are jobs that [...]
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Have the politicians in Texas gone crazy or something? I posted the other day about the governor signing an executive order about Gardasil, but it turns out he’s not the only Texas politician who wants to overcontrol what parents do. I missed the story about another one who wants to make parents missing teacher conferences [...]
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Some would say yes. It’s one of the core arguements used against same sex marriage. So now a gay advocacy group is proposing that marriages that do not produce children within three years should be annulled.
I have to give them credit for trying. It’s at least amusing.
In case you’re wondering, I have no problem with [...]
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