Screw the Children

The 2006 budget proposed by the Bush administration is truly sickening. This “article by Molly Ivins”:http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/H022105B.shtml says it so well that I’m too disgusted to comment. For a friendlier version of how easy it would be to change our budget priorities, “Ben Cohen explains it with cookies”:http://www.truemajority.org/fun/.

Posted by Chris in Politics on March 7th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Anger turns to derision

An update on the Buster in Vermont controversy I “ranted about”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000480.html earlier: An “absolutely idiotic article”:http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/27/news/opinion/edit07.txt by Bill O’Reilly underscores the basic misconception involved. O’Reilly claims that the issue isn’t gay couples, it’s that “sex in general is an inappropriate topic for small children.” And there you go. The first thing Bill O’Reilly thinks of [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on March 4th, 2005 | 2 Comments »

fried by the arts

Looks like “trouble at the Disney Concert Hall”:http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/ktla-030105disney_lat,0,4333459.story?coll=ktla-news-1 : _Construction crews are set to take a hand sander to the some of the shimmering stainless steel panels that have wowed tourists and architecture lovers but have baked neighbors living in condominiums across the street._ _Beams of sunlight reflected from the hall have roasted the sidewalk [...]

Posted by Chris in Oddly Enough on March 2nd, 2005 | 1 Comment »

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