The results of a $200 million federally funded study were reported recently in the New York Times. Kids who spend more than 10 hours a week in daycare are more likely to be disruptive when they get to grade school. What the study didn’t show was that preschoolers who spend most of their time at [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Kids and Daycare
Posted in Miscellany on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Rising TIDE
Posted in The War of Error on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
TIDE is the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. Over the last four years it has quadrupled in size, from fewer than 100,000 files in 2003 to 435,000. A giant dumping ground for bits and pieces of information from spies, reports for allies and random gossip, it generated watch lists for airlines, law enforcement and US consulates. Once someone [...]
They tried to sell their toddler for $3000 & an SUV
Posted in Personal/Political on March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I bet they could have gotten more on e-bay. But it’s way more than they’d get in Texas!
Biology as Destiny in the DNA Age
Posted in Personal/Political on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What if you found out that the child you are carrying was gay? What if you found out that the child you are carrying carried the gene that caused Huntington’s disease? The Reverend R. Albert Mohler, Jr., a leading voice in the Southern Baptist Convention, posed the question about gay children earlier this month. In [...]
An Open Letter to Garrison Kellior
Posted in Gay Parenting/Gay Marriage on March 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Written in reply to “Stating the obvious“
Dear Mr. Kellior,
Last week my son and the other kids in Mrs. Hughes’ 1st grade class room participated in Read Across America. He has a certificate, signed by the Cat in the Hat himself , mounted on a piece of red construction paper hanging on his bedroom wall to prove it. You didn’t visit my [...]
Mitt and the Pink Taco
Posted in Mitt Romney on March 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
His Mittship has annonced that Jason Rose will be the state director for Arizona. Rose and his public relations firm were behind the buzz about the Pink Taco restaurant in Scottsdale – pink taco, being an ummm, alternative term fro vagina. Maybe the wingnuts are right. Maybe Mitt isn’t really a conservative. Maybe he’s really [...]
General Pace & ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Posted in Miscellany on March 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What’s up with him? Hasn’t he seen the 300? Morality aside, those boys in leather sure can fight. No wonder we’re losing the war! If I were the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I’d be out recruiting every queer I could find & give a signing bonus to every drag queen who enlisted. As the NYPD learned [...]
Bush Sr. Hospitalized…
Posted in Personal/Political on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gosh! I hope they don’t send him to Walter Reed!
The Death of a Bookseller
Posted in Miscellany on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last week a car bomb went off on amid the booksellers of Mutanabi Street in Badhdad. Mohammed Hayawi, the owner of the Renaissance Bookstore was among those killed. Here is a profounding moving tribute that appeared in the Washington Post
Halliburton moving corparate headquaters to Dubai
Posted in Miscellany on March 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Is there any way we can get them to take Dick Cheney with them?
