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Sunday, November 23, 2003 |
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Dept. of Fear And Loathing
Small town gay-bashing and school district fascism is alive and well in Wyoming, home of Matthew Shepard and his killers. This time, the police were called out. Not to protect the free speech and freedom of assembly rights of two students, but to make sure that two heterosexual girls didn't attend homecoming together as a "couple."
A straight teenager is challenging a school district policy that bars students from bringing same-sex dates to school dances. That's right folks, it's a crime (OK, not really, but the Big Piney chapter of the SS would sure like it to be, apparently) to go to a Homecoming dance with someone who happens to be the same sex. Hold on a cotton-picking minute, folks! Not only is this an attack on queers, it pretty much puts the smackdown on geeks, freakoids, brains, goober-pickers and other socially undesirable or inept kids. If it weren't for same sex friends, I never would have had anyone to hang out with at homecoming. But, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, the girls are fighting back against the hypocrites and hayseed Nazis that are the school district.
In a letter sent Thursday to Superintendent B. Weldon Shelley, the ACLU stated the policy violates a 1980 federal court ruling out of Rhode Island. The decision handed down in Frick v. Lynch found that students who bring same-sex dates to school dances are not only protected by the Constitution but that schools must take steps to ensure their safety when they attend the dances. You go, girls!
You know, it's nice to know that the generation that is coming up in the world is much more tolerant, open and courageous than their parents'. It gives me hope that the little Hitlers of the world aren't long for it. |
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Dept. of Paranoia
Look out! Look up! Those wispy fingers of clouds that criss-cross they sky? Harmless vapor trails? Ice crystals? NO!!! Think those are contrails? This man says NO!
I'm not going to tell you how old I am or what I look like. These things aren't important. I will tell you that the sky is not the sky of my youth. Pristine blue has been replaced by hazy white lines known as chemtrails. The once-yellow sun is now a glaring white abomination. Don't believe me? Walk outside and look up. What do you see? Is your sky normal? Dude.
NASA why do you refuse to Hoooooo-kay.
But you know, sometimes, even the paranoid are right. |
Even NASA is dissin' him. So, he writes poetry:|
Dept. of VR A new VR panorama by Sydney's Peter Murphy:
I love his work. |
The annual Festival of Mind, Body and Spirit was on at Darling Harbour yesterday - two whole exhibition halls full of psychics, life coaches, masseurs, magnetic blanket salesmen, iridologists. .. and yoga practitioners. |
Dept. of Delusions
And by "absolutely innocent" she meant that Jackson didn't know there were charges filed against him until the warrant was issued. |
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Dept. of Super, Sonic
Alright! I may get that jetpack after all. Because dammit, this is the 21st freakin' century and we're supposed to have jetpacks and SSTs and talking computers that kill really bland actors. But right now, we gots jack. But hope is on the horizon, at least in the SST department.
A successor to supersonic jet Concorde is being considered by aerospace giant EADS, the group has confirmed. But it's not all smooth sailing:
Meanwhile, Japan recently suffered a huge setback last summer when a test for a model of a planned supersonic passenger jet ended in failure.
Hey, what's a aerospace development program without a few launch anomalies? |
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Dept. of Winter Kit
Scooter knows that when the white stuff is flying outside, it's best to hunker down on a warm appliance and take it easy. |
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Dept. of Precipitation
It took longer than usual, but snow has arrived here in Nebraska.
This will be the first snow that our schnauzer has ever seen. Should be fun! |
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Random Image From My Files
Lego mini sub!
Dive! |
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