Well ... it's a tad harsh, to be sure, but then, he's not doing all that over here. For which we can be grateful. (But they're wrong about 2002. Now, 2004, there, maybe.)
@ 06:55 PM CST [Link]
The number of military personnel discharged for homosexual conduct or for stating their homosexuality rose by 17 percent last year to the highest total in recent years, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said Friday. The Army's total more than doubled, while the Air Force had a 50 percent decline.
You know, you'd think at a point in time when the military is so far below its targets that it's pulling in people who haven't graduated from high school, they'd decide that this policy is perhaps just a pit counterproductive. Then again, nobody ever accused the military of common sense.
@ 06:50 PM CST [Link]
A survey of gay and lesbian high school students suggests they endure less violence and confrontation in schools where students receive AIDS and sexual-orientation instruction to increase sensitivity to gays. The survey, appearing Friday in the American Journal of Public Health, also found that gay, lesbian and bisexual students in schools without sensitivity training were more likely to report risky and frequent sex, substance abuse and suicide attempts.
Whoa. Wow. Whatta shock. No, really. Who'd have thought that teaching people about each other might have led them to not attacking each other? What a very strange concept. Really.
@ 06:37 PM CST [Link]
What the hell is WITH people? Where have their brains gone?
32 percent. Jesus god.
@ 06:29 PM CST [Link]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth of school age in the United States often suffer daily harassment, abuse, and violence at the hands of their peers. These students spend an inordinate amount of energy figuring out how to get to and from school safely, avoiding the hallways when other students are present in order to escape slurs and shoves, cutting gym classes to escape being beaten up—in short, attempting to become invisible.
@ 06:23 PM CST [Link]
See the little brown girl
She's as old as me
She looks just like chocolate
Oh mummy can't you see
We are both in first grade
She sits next to me
I took care of her, mum
When she skinned her knee
She sang a song so pretty
On the Jungle Jim
When Jimmy tried to hurt her
I punched him in the chin
Mom, can she come over / To play dolls with me
We could have such fun, mum
Oh mum what'd you say
Why not?
But why not?
Oh
I see
-- "Turning Point", lyrics by Martha Holmes, performed by Nina Simone
@ 10:52 PM CST [Link]
Well, that's ... confusing. Nice, but confusing, and totally counter to the direction the Court has taken on admissions cases in the last decade or so.
@ 07:25 PM CST [Link]
Sugar ... Spice ... Everything Nice .... Add in a can of Whoopass, and boys like it too!
@ 07:12 PM CST [Link]
"Reality" is as reality does, I suppose. Burnett and Co must be wondering now why they didn't just make this suit go away before it became public.
@ 07:07 PM CST [Link]
By the time detectives from the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division arrived on the scene, they knew not only the dead man's identity but also that they were stepping into a minefield. The victim was Kevin Gaines, 31, a seven-year veteran of the LAPD, then assigned to patrol duty in the department's Pacific Division. He had been off-duty at the time of his death. The lead investigator on the case was forty-year-old Russell Poole. [...] Poole's assignment to the Kevin Gaines case, however, would send him into a bewildering labyrinth of murder, bank robbery, corruption, bureaucratic intrigue and racial politics. By the time Poole resigned in disgust from the department almost two years later, he would have peered into the darkest corners of the LAPD, discovering many of that troubled organization's most closely guarded secrets. The questionable actions that followed from the death of Kevin Gaines would implicate some of Los Angeles' most influential figures, including the current chief of police and the city attorney who is now L.A.'s leading mayoral candidate. And before his investigation was delayed, diverted and then finally shut down, Poole would uncover powerful evidence that police officers were operating within the Los Angeles Police Department both as members of the Bloods gang and as security for gangsta-rap kingpin Suge Knight, the president of Death Row Records. These officers, Poole suspected, were involved in the unsolved murder of one of rap music's biggest stars, Biggie Smalls.
One wonders why--or if--Los Angeles alone produced this sort of police culture.
@ 05:53 PM CST [Link]
We're not bad! We're just drawn that way! ... whaddya mean, we're not toons?
Which is to say, somehow I doubt the truthfulness of a company that had to be sued before it would pay people who bought substandard homes in Country Walk from them -- the developer mentioned in the article is, in fact, Disney. (Said people having discovered how substandard these homes were when they blew apart during Hurricane Andrew.)
@ 05:15 PM CST [Link]
So apparently some parents do believe that we should be beaten, raped, and murdered. I mean, if that isn't what they believe, then why should they object so strenuously to children being taught simply to leave people alone?
At least we know where we stand.
@ 04:25 PM CST [Link]
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12/18/2001: shame on winn dixie, indeed
12/18/2001: saudi princess
12/17/2001: new resolve
12/17/2001: a victim of the attack ... yeah, right
12/17/2001: polluters ho!