Archive for March 12, 2010
Break Time — Jello
This is a delightful little video from the Bronx Zoo showing spider monkeys playing with (and eating) Jello.
Simple pleasures.
Texas Board of Ed. Cuts Thomas Jefferson From the Curriculum
Texas might as well secede. They’re doing it figuratively; why not make it official: Texas Board of Education Cuts Thomas Jefferson Out of its Textbooks.
The very bad thing about this is that what Texas does with its textbooks tends to bleed into what other states do, so this could go national before we know it.
We the People Rule in Washington, D.C., Right?
We the People rule in Washington, D.C., right? Well, maybe not. Actually, it looks like money does: 6 of the 10 Richest Counties in the U.S. are in the D.C. area.
Karl Rove Shames the Nation
Karl Rove — touting his new book and his gigantic ego on the BBC today, said
[H]e is “proud” the U.S. used waterboarding to gain information from terror suspects.
“I’m proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists,” he said in a BBC interview, adding that he did not consider waterboarding to be torture.
I know Rove, psychopath that he is, doesn’t give a damn but it just so happens that the world decided long ago that waterboarding is illegal. Yet this guy struts around essentially boasting that the Bush administration, and thus the United States, broke the law.
Karl Rove shames all of us. He shames the United States.
At the Food Bank
The food bank was busy today. Families came through on a steady basis the whole time I was there. The shelves were pretty well stocked though the produce — sweet potatoes, apples, eggplant and carrots — looked old.
A local church is having a food drive on Sunday (must be one of those “social justice” churches) so I followed one of the staff members to its parking lot where he left the truck, for the parishioners to fill up on Sunday, and then I brought him back to the bank. So nice of churches to do that. It helps us so, so much.
A cool thing I noticed today was that almost all the people who came though — even though they’re dealing with crushing issues in their lives — brought their own grocery bags. Neat to see that even with everything on their plate, they have the energy to care about the environment.
Newspaper Doesn’t Report on Utah GOP Candidate’s Hot Tub Liaison w/Nude Teenager
Utah’s House Majority Leader Kevin Garn admits to incident with girl in the past (that his local newspaper knew about but didn’t do a story on).
Christians Begin To Talk About Boycotting News Corp. Over Glenn Beck
From the Church of Jesus Christ: Should Christians Boycott Zondervan Over Glenn Beck?
This will be interesting to watch.
