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Letter to the editor?
As a software engineer with two children in the public school system in Texas, I'm naturally concerned by the obvious Creationist leanings of many of the members of our State Board of Education. As our elected board members begin the process of redesigning the science curriculum for our children, we as citizens and voters have a responsibility to ( Read more... ) -
Open Letter to the Texas Board of Education
Dear elected board members,
When board member Cynthia Dunbar made her opinion (as stated here) about our President-elect well-known, I decided to do a little research. Within five minutes of Internet searching, I found many sites that attempted to debunk what our fine Republican board member is trying to warn us about. Unfortunately, they are all ( Read more... ) -
Every gorram day...
I already knew this, but here's an article that gives the actual statistics.
(alternate titles I considered for this entry)
And people wonder why I'm such a pessimist about our government...
Yes! We have more people in prison than China does! We win!
The United States is still showing the Soviet Union how it's done!
Hey, Martha, you're not alone!
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On Politics
I don't mean to infect anyone else with my boundless well of pessimism about politics in the US, but the way I look at it, "the system" is broken and in need of major fixing. I don't just bitch and moan about it -- I actually have suggestions. Unfortunately, I know I don't always stop with the 'broken' where someone might see what I see and keep ( Read more... ) -
BSA
Okay. I know I've touched on this in conversations, but I've never really sat down to write about it. Or if I have, they've ended up as forgotten notes off in the corner someplace that I'm not remembering right now. Well, good ole Governor Rick Perry has reminded me of the issue this morning by writing a book that supports something I'm dead-set ( Read more... ) -
This is what happens when my meeting gets rescheduled...
Well, we were supposed to have a big meeting at 3 today and we're not. Good. Now I can do the post I've been thinking about all day.
See, this morning I got side-tracked by that Scientology protest from over the weekend, and started reading up on the "why". That poster in the pic that almost everyone is posting that says, "Why are they dead?" ( Read more... ) -
It lives...
Yes indeed, the 5 questions meme lives on. And I'm too lazy to link back to my original post.
Here're the questions from luckyckljw and my answers:
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Schadenfreude - let's invest in insurance!
First of all, let me preface this by saying insurance is generally a good thing. Especially health insurance. I don't know what I would have done without having adequate health insurance when my youngest son was sick or when I was diagnosed with RA. However, there are some obvious problems with the status quo. Many Americans can not afford ( Read more... ) -
What Do You Have To Say? - Writing: Makes Me A Better Writer
I'd have to say it's all those years I spent in the on-line text-based RPG community. Not only did it sharpen my typing ability, it gave me my first experience with writing directly for an audience. Sure, it was an audience of participants, but to eventually improve my writing to the point that it received recognition from the community I ( Read more... )