Atheist Intolerance

I just hate getting into religion but it’s everywhere.  I’m tolerant.  However, it irks me when I witness my child being taught to say grace during lunch at her day care.  The “thank you” poem was rather sweet and I find nothing wrong with teaching children gratitude.  However, why does gratitude always need God attached [...]

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Sex Sermons at the ‘ol Elementary School

“Is Your Sex Life a Bore?”  asks a church flyer.  Being the faith-based view of sexuality is rather limited, I’d say most people might say yes but that’s not the issue here.  The New Hope Church in Brevard County Florida is facing opposition to their sex education (intended for adults) because they’re renting a room [...]

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Earn More Money Walking a Dog than Watching a Kid

Yahoo! has a nice little article for those who’d like to earn extra cash in our troubled times: seven jobs that range from $9.00 to $55.00 an hour.  The kicker?  Hahaha…
Maybe it’s just me.  Maybe I’m the confused female here but is it just a little odd, sexist, unfair and/or fucking ridiculous that the lowest [...]

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Ibuprofen Strip Search on 13 y/o

“In this case, the United States Supreme Court will decide how easy it is for school officials to strip search your child,” Adam Wolf, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union…”
I cannot wait to find out the results on this one.
Here’s a video.
UPDATE: June 09
And the results were positive.  The search was illegal.

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Response to Cynthia Logan

Rather than commenting to Mrs. Cynthia Logan’s comment on my blog post, Make the Jump, Vermont, I’d rather direct my readers to what has been an interesting discussion at The Legal Satyricon about it.  If you don’t know, Mrs. Logan wishes to change laws after her 18 y/o daughter committed suicide for being bullied about [...]

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Hibiscus Delights

 
 

 
I’ve recently developed a fascination for Hibiscus flowers.  Hibiscus and I go way back to Florida in the early 80’s, Miami Beach specifically.  I grew up there and my fondest memories are between the once “old folks homes” lined up along  South Beach – now glamorized Ocean Drive – and the areas up to Aventura Mall. Haulover Beach used to [...]

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Intelligent Quote of the Day

Telling the truth is always the first step toward freedom.”  ~ Dr. Marty Klein of Sexual Intelligence

I second that.

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Give Me Mercy!

We have close to 2 million orphans in Malawi who need help,” Women and Child Welfare DevelopmentMinister Anna Kachikho told The Associated Press. “We can’t look after all of them as a country. If people like Madonna adopt even one such orphan, it’s one mouth less we have to feed.” (source)
And one child who is [...]

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The Perfect Childbirth Experience

I don’t think I ever told the story of how I managed to manifest almost to the half hour, childbirth to the specifications I set as wanting to experience for the last kid I had ( literally the last kid ever! No Angelina Jolie maternal desire here).  I’m a hard core believer in one’s ability to make [...]

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Einstein, Education and America

As one who traveled 200,000 miles on business last year, I can tell you for certain that the world places no hope, no weight upon America’s youth making even a future ripple in the global waters … Having visited the top public schools in India and China, I can assure you that the future for [...]

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