That Pesky Penguin
Pams House blend Feb 19 08Yet another school district has made a fuss over And Tango Makes Three, the book about the chick hatched by two male penguins, and the American Library Association's Most Challenged Book of 2006. The school superintendent of Loudoun County, Virginia, has instructed county elementary schools to take the book out of general circulation and move it to the teacher's reference shelf, after one parent complained. A spokesperson for the schools said:
Developmentally, some students in the younger grades might not have been able to understand this without having an adult, such as a teacher, parent or guardian reading it with them. Full story...
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National Coming Out Day 2008
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October 11 is National Coming Out Day. We may be winning the culture war one day at a time (see the marriage equality ruling in Connecticut on Friday), but not everyone has the option of coming out of the closet in this country --* Without ENDA, LGBT citizens can be fired from a job where there are no local anti-discrimination protections.
The hateful ignorance of the McCain/Palin base continues to spiral out of control
Pams House blend 5 hours agoTim Russo recently showed you the hate-filled ignorant base of support for McCain/Palin in Ohio. Make no mistake, that was no anomoly.
Palin Unlawfully Abused Power
Pams House blend 14 hours ago
Damn. It's 9:21 p.m. on a Friday night. Nobody's reading blogs right now, but I gotta run with this.
'Troopergate' Documents Released!! PDF here...
Pams House blend 15 hours ago"Breaking News" as of minutes ago: it was unanimously decided to release the Branchflower report.
From the Anchorage Daily News:
The legislative council just voted 12-0 to release the investigator Steve Branchflower's report on the Troopergate affair.
Connecticut court overturns same-sex marriage ban
Pams House blend 17 hours ago(People have been bombarding my email box with pleas to put up a post on the Connecticut marriage equality ruling.
NC parking lot owner - no spaces for Obama supporters
Pams House blend 19 hours agoWhat kind of bigot crackpot businessman is this? In Gibsonville, NC, Tim Henderson has decided his distaste for Barack Obama should be channeled into bias against his supporters who wish to use his parking lot.
Teen could get 16 years for fatal crash because of first-time pot use two weeks prior
Pams House blend 20 hours ago
Teen pleads in crash that killed 3 | www.jconline.com | Journal and Courier
A Crawfordsville teenager has admitted to smoking marijuana about two weeks before causing a two-vehicle crash a year ago that killed two of his classmates and an Indianapolis woman.
Equality in Connecticut
Pams House blend 20 hours agoPart of the problem with my morning routine is that by the time I get around to checking the news, it isn't news any more.
Smackdown from town hall attendee about McCain's condescending question
Pams House blend 22 hours agoYou might recall the moment in the debate this week when McCain was condescending to one questioner at the town hall, a young black man named Oliver Clark.
Op-ed on black Republicans tells it like it is
Pams House blend 24 hours agoRaynard Jackson, a Republican and a D.C.-based political consultant, does a great job of outlining the dilemma of the black Republican in today's GOP in this op-ed.
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