Shortened because my wrists are a bit stiff today. It's partially the keyboard; it's teaching me to type for real. Real finger placement, real touch typing.
The superintendent of schools in Texas who has been fighting to keep the Gay/Straight Alliance out of his schools has been busted for having an affair on school property and using school computers to solicit acts of prostitution. One of the emails revealed that the superintendent engaged in such activity on the same day he was standing in front of news cameras and proclaiming that he would not allow anything that interfered with the school's abstinence-only policy from being
A woman who forgot her child in a carseat and allowed the kid to die of heat exhaustion has blamed Everquest for being so addictive she completely lost track of where her child was.
Reason editor Julian Sanchez does a good job of dismantling the USA Patriot Act and showing how easy it is to abuse and how few checks really exist over the power it grants federal authorities. Right now the battle cry of its supporters is "show us one instance of abuse," but we cannot know because inquiries into the use of the Patriot Act have been ruled invulnerable to FOIA requests for the duration of the emergency.
An article in Issues in Science and Technology decries Bush's gutting of science programs and ends with this dire note: "No science, no surplus. It's that simple."
Plastic bags have become so commonplace that they are clogging the shores and oceans at a frightening rate, according to National Geographic. I've been trying to use cloth bags for years. Maybe you should too.
The superintendent of schools in Texas who has been fighting to keep the Gay/Straight Alliance out of his schools has been busted for having an affair on school property and using school computers to solicit acts of prostitution. One of the emails revealed that the superintendent engaged in such activity on the same day he was standing in front of news cameras and proclaiming that he would not allow anything that interfered with the school's abstinence-only policy from being
A woman who forgot her child in a carseat and allowed the kid to die of heat exhaustion has blamed Everquest for being so addictive she completely lost track of where her child was.
Reason editor Julian Sanchez does a good job of dismantling the USA Patriot Act and showing how easy it is to abuse and how few checks really exist over the power it grants federal authorities. Right now the battle cry of its supporters is "show us one instance of abuse," but we cannot know because inquiries into the use of the Patriot Act have been ruled invulnerable to FOIA requests for the duration of the emergency.
An article in Issues in Science and Technology decries Bush's gutting of science programs and ends with this dire note: "No science, no surplus. It's that simple."
Plastic bags have become so commonplace that they are clogging the shores and oceans at a frightening rate, according to National Geographic. I've been trying to use cloth bags for years. Maybe you should too.
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