Global Spin

Gack! According to this “CNN article”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/students.amendment.ap/index.html, high school kids don’t understand what the First Amendment protects: _when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on January 31st, 2005 | Comments Off

I just accidentally found a new blog that I really liked called Gray Matters. It’s a bit more Christian-oriented than the blogs I normally go to, but I have to love this guy as he describes his utter frustration of being told not to quote Deepok Chopra at his Bible study group (“He’s not Christian, [...]

Posted by Deana in Blog on January 29th, 2005 | Comments Off

The past few days it’s seemed like the Intarweb has been trying especially hard to make me angry. I was able to ignore most of the “disturbing”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/26/MNGKQB0FSQ1.DTL “reports”:http://www.fordvehicles.com/autoshow/concept/synus/ up to now, but this one has me hoppin’ mad: _The nation’s new “education secretary”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings “denounced PBS on Tuesday”:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3009795 for spending public money on a cartoon with [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on January 26th, 2005 | 13 Comments »

Boing Boing just “reminded me of a song”:http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/25/wiki_wiki_wiki.html I used to love growing up. (John, do you remember this one?) The “lyrics”:http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/song-937.html are just beautiful. Not only do they contain gems like “I learned to rock like “dolomite”:http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/dolomite/dolomite.htm,” but there’s even a duel between our DJ hero and Superman, apparently moonlighting as a DJ of [...]

Posted by Chris in Music on January 25th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to Prince for that. Turns out that I’m actually 29! Woot! (and no, that’s not my shoe size) This is what I’m talking about: What Age Do You Act?

Posted by Deana in Fun on January 21st, 2005 | 3 Comments »