Necessary Roughness

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Archive for August, 2006

Not Exactly True Confessions
Thursday, August 31st, 2006

The New York Times has a story about mysecret.tv, a web site set up by an Oklahoma church network.
On this web site, people anonymously post items and categorize them. If approved the posts are made public for everyone else to see.

The International Herald Tribune has an interesting report on the difficulties in communicating between North Korea and South Korea because of the way their language has split and evolved. They are working on a joint dictionary to reunify the vocabularies.
It’s not quite newspeak, but looking at the phrases in question, it looks like some elements [...]

School T-Shirts Now Free Speech
Thursday, August 31st, 2006

NewsMax reports that the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals has determined that a student has the constitutional right to wear a T-shirt that showed an image of President Bush “surrounded by cocaine, a razor blade, a straw, and a martini.”
This has to have overturned a mountain of precedent. I’m going to date myself here, but [...]

Old Solar has a nice reaction to this World Net Daily article. The governor of California has denied funding to schools who employ moral conduct codes for their students. There are no exceptions for “faith-based” institutions.
This is why I cringed when President Bush created a White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Government money [...]

Pastors Endorsing Candidates
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

The Washington Post reports that a group of pastors has endorsed Ken Blackwell for Governor of Ohio. Blackwell’s campaign site as of this writing has not mentioned it in its endorsement list (link dead). The only pastor mentioned in the article is Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., of Hope Christian Church in Bowie, Maryland.
I understand when [...]