Month March 2005

Even More Floridian Teacher Fun

Today’s episode of Can I Get Fired, Please? features one “Lynne Deering” who apparently brandished a knife and then plunged it into a stack of papers on a student’s desk. In the understatement of the year, the spokesman for the…

Old Europe == PFJ

Monty Python fans, rejoice! For your vast store of MP quotes is now applicable in a very real, and legally binding sense.

Rep. Tom Feeney Is Reading My Mind

I suggested something very much akin to HR 97 – the “Reaffirmation of American Independence Resolution” (which is a resubmission of HR 568 from last term) – which was submitted by Representative Tom Feeney of Florida. The resolution proposes: Article…

Wowsers.

People constantly amaze me with the nifty little tricks they are able to put together using CSS on webpages. This maze (implemented entirely in CSS) stands out as one of the more amazing examples I’ve ever seen. Too cool.

Laughing At Our Robed Masters

Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons has me absolutely fuming. The five “all-knowing” justices decided they knew far better than we troglodytic knuckledraggers out here in Red America what constitutes Right, Good and Proper in a true example…

Well Then

I’ve always wondered what it would take to get a tenured teacher fired these days. Apparently, the line isn’t insulting and demeaning your first grade class, using questionable language in the presence of children, burping loudly at staff meetings or…

Comical Word Coinage

I must have missed out on the point when the Lefty side of the media coined this one (as it’s apparently been around for a bit), but James Taranto used “karlrovian conspiracy” in today’s Best of the Web. Heh. First…

Middle East Musings

Deprived of my normal Wednesday morning Preston & Steve “Lost” theories, I listened to BBC’s “The World” broadcast on NPR as I made my way in to work today. Today’s broadcast lead with coverage of the ongoing protests in Lebanon…