Cutting School Funding to Ease Budget Woes
The City Council of Memphis, Tennessee, has voted to cut school funding while giving property owners a tax break, as reported in this article (as well as in many other local news outlets). I think it’s about time! For years, Memphis residents have had to pay for local schools twice, through Memphis City property taxes […]
Dunkin’ Donuts Is Not Promoting Terrorism
Some people need to just shut up. By now, everyone has seen the Dunkin’ Donuts ad with the photograph of Rachael Ray wearing a black-and-white scarf — the ad that some people said should be pulled because that black-and-white scarf looks like a keffiyeh — the head scarf worn by members of a certain Arab […]
Danica as Role Model
This is a departure for me. I don’t do sports. And I don’t usually admit to liking NASCAR … the people I work and socialize with associate NASCAR with drunken rednecks, and that’s not the image I want to portray (because I am neither). But FOX’s article on Danica Patrick is right on, and I […]
Do You Really Think Moses Was Stoned?
My favourite headline for this news story was The Guardian‘s: “Moses Was Stoned When He Set the Ten Commandments.” But the story itself is both amusing and appalling. Whatever happened to the scientific method? To proof? Because this Benny Shanon doesn’t want to believe in supernatural events, he wants, instead, to speculate that more than […]
Our Mayor Gets a Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Car!
Local news is reporting that our city’s mayor gets a leased Cadillac Escalade as part of his job. One of the local stations asked how viewers feel about that. How do I feel about the fact that the mayor has a car that costs $1150 a month — a sum that is paid for out […]
Taking Things TOO Far
Three kids did a really dumb thing, and the grown-ups in their school are going way overboard in punishing them. The kids got the “bright” idea to set up a myspace account, impersonating a teacher at the school. They apparently managed to keep it up for three days, and, of course, word spread around school, […]
This Is Just SO Wrong!
There is a family in our area that is trying to regain custody of their daughter after giving her up to foster care when she was a few weeks old. She’s now eight years old. The Baker family has reared this little girl for eight years; they are what she knows as “her family.” Her […]
An Appalling Case of Water Intoxication
A 28-year-old mother of three has died as a result of her participation in a contest that I can only describe as criminally irresponsible. Did no one think to consult a physician or even a sports/personal trainer before implementing this idea?! I don’t know who thought it up, but Sacramento radio station KDND (107.9 FM) […]
“Mommy Porn” — What Do You Think?
And no, it’s not what you think! I often read Penelope Trunk’s blog “The Brazen Careerist,” because she’s very up-front about the fact that she’s not perfect, work-life balance is not possible, and some days just stink. Sometimes her ideas for coping are outrageous; some days they actually make sense. I was VERY touched by […]
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