I’m deeply skeptical about Bush’s plan to fund “faith-based initiatives,” but this article linking it to Notre Dame’s ACE Program made me pause. I mean, I have friends who’re doing this Program (it sends graduates to teach in under-resourced Catholic schools) and I definitely think that the work they do is a good thing. If Bush could guarantee that there wouldn’t be any sort of bias in giving out the money… But I really don’t think that’s possible, do you? Do you really believe that if, say, a Wiccan group was running such a similar Program, that their chance of getting funding would be anywhere near the same as a Catholic group? No way, José.
Category: Random Links
Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
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Y2K
Salon’s running an interesting story on those Y2K “wack-jobs.” (Seriously, the author actually calls them that. Ha!) I hate those people. They remind me of when I used to work in a grocery store in my small town, and every time the weatherman predicted a storm we’d get a rush of old people buying jugs of water and flashlights. I’d stand there at the cash register, all of sixteen-years-old, thinking, “Wolcottville, Indiana is the last place anything remotely interesting would happen, let alone something environmentally catastrophic.” I really think there’s a deep human desire to hole up in a bunker for some reason. Either that or my natural optimism is once again setting me apart from the hordes of paranoid wack-jobs around me.
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Politics
Not that I’m trying to sway anybody or anything… but check out IKNOWWHATYOUDIDINTEXAS.COM.
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Friday Fun Time
White Cheerleader Epiphanies!” My favorite is: “Sometimes after lunch, when I go to brush and floss in the girls washroom, there are these druggie girls smoking drugs in there. I always say hi, but they never say hi back or anything. I think they must be very sad all the time. I’ll bet that if someone wrote a really good cheer for them, they would stop being such drugged-out sluts.”
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Whatever, Purdue Guy
ESPN asked a bunch of football players for their thoughts on women playing college football. I have to say, most of them really impressed me! A couple (like the Baylor guy) mentioned that they would have difficulty hitting a girl, but I think after she tackled them a few times she’d get over *that*. More problematic is the Purdue asshole, who seems to think that it’s impossible for a woman to compete with a man physically. He basically says that sports are split into genders for a reason, and that if there were only one football (basketball, baseball, etc.) team then women would never get to compete. WHATEVER! The teams might not be 50-50, but I think it’s ridiculous to think that no woman could possibly make the cut in a male environment. Was I the ONLY one who sat through “G.I. Jane”??
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Gross.
*PUKE* Okay, apparently these “Diva Starz Dolls” are supposed to be this year’s Furby. Whatever. Even though they’ve supposedly created “sporty,” “earthy,” and “tech-y” dolls, they’re still all about clothes (this Press Release actually calls them fashionistas) and hanging out at the “Diva Mall.” I just can’t believe that any professional marketing person could possibly bring themselves to write the headline: “Techno-Interaction Brings a Whole New Meaning to Gabbin’ With Sass-o-matic Looks and Fab-alicious Fun!” Seriously, you guys… Fab-alicious??? I swear, no kid of mine will ever play with this shit.
Edited 30/04/2025: Original link is dead, so replaced with a recent one.
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Snark.
Hahahahahaha… Inside Roger Clemens’s brain.
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Also, water is wet.
Performance-enhancing drugs call into doubt integrity of the Olympics, according to report from commision chaired by Father Malloy. Wow. What hard hitting research. Not.
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Oh, no.
Why you should never, ever hide in big piles of leaves.
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Whatever, grandpa.
I’m sorry, but everytime I read another update on this story of a man abducting his grandchild to keep him away from his “gay” parents, I keep chuckling at Grandpa’s reasoning: the kid participates in ballet and “gay art class” instead of baseball. We only had regular art class at my elementary school. *snicker* (On a serious note, the kid’s back home now.)