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“Fitness and Entrepreneurs” 0
Warning: In questionable taste.
Plus Ca Change 0
Tony Norman suggests that the past is repeating itself once more all over again redundantly.
Read it.
Meanwhile, comes this from Paul Berge:
Image via The Bob and Chez Show Blog.
Keeping Children in Suspense 0
I don’t remember anyone having been suspended when I was in school, and certainly not in elementary school. One fellow came close in high school: He grew his hair out into a “Beatles haircut,” which was quite scandalous at the time. When the principal told him cut his hair, he shaved his head. He was forced to wear a toboggan cap until his hair grew out . . . .
From the Roanoke Times (more at the link):
Among the findings in the Legal Aid Justice Center’s report, “Suspended Progress”:
- One-fifth of all suspensions in the state went to students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade;
- Nonviolent offenses like “disruption,” “defiance” and “disrespect” accounted for the majority of suspensions;
- Black students and those with disabilities were suspended disproportionately to their peers.
Looks to me as if they are suspending kids for being uppity. Now, we can’t have any uppity, now, can we, not here in the South?
Perhaps this might have something to do with it.
North Carolina’s Trojan Toilets 0
Thom and a caller discuss some of the implications of North Carolina’s “It’s Okay To Hate the Gay” law, such as capping the minimum wage, implications that have received little notice in the furor over bodily functions.
Variety Homogeneity Vacationland
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At the Raleigh News & Observer, Jai Kumar, immigrant son of immigrant parents currently attending graduate school at UNC, cuts to the essence of North Carolina’s wingnuttery. A snippet:
Read the rest.
A Ticket To Rude 0
One more time, persons who complain about “political correctness” want nothing more than license to be offensive without penalty.
Help Me Out Here 0
I’m working on song to propose to North Carolina for a new state song. I’ve managed to come up with the first few lines, but now I’m stuck.
Golden showers fill my dreams.
I am preoccupied with streams.
Sleep, Pretty Baby, do not cry,
I will ensure that you stay dry.
I’m not really into golden showers, not being a North Carolina Republican, so assistance is appreciated.
More Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0
Elsewhere, Daniel Ruth marvels at the loo loonies.
Meanwhile, The Bob and Chez Show Blog offers a pictorial representation of North Carolina’s golden showers fetish:
Anointed with (Snake) Oil 0
I never trust persons who say that God is on their side.
I sometimes will trust persons who say that they are trying to be on God’s side.