A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
Someone should make this fellow read out loud the Loving v. Virginia case.
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Could it be he believes in a conservative pundit from ages ago that even conservatives distanced themselves from? You be the judge. Personally I think he’s just plain nuts, and the “power” he gets from having a national forum has done nothing to help him.
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The entire Apollo XI mission from launch to splashdown is being recreated and rebroadcast in real time at We Choose The Moon. Fire up the Time Goggles and watch!
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People have it so easy today. You can order pizza and have it delivered to your house and automatically paid for (including tip) all from your portable phone with the push of a few buttons. Yet if the pizza arrives a few minutes late people will complain. And that’s not the only thing these days that is totally taken for granted…
You’ve probably heard by now that this month is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web. What you may not have realized is that it was invented at CERN – The guys who are running the Large Hadron Collider. They realized that the internet of the day was too arcane and insufficient to their needs as Big Science research nerds, so a better system was developed to allow simpler collaboration.
1: Suck it people who say that it’s a waste of money to fund Big Science fundamentals research. You never know what’s going to come from it.
Why is this important? Because when Steve came back to Apple, he brought the NeXT OS (then called OpenStep) with him, and it became the foundation of Mac OS X.
2: Suck it Windows users. We Apple fanboys get to claim some serious geek cred for this. Or at least we should be able to. Redmond had nothing to do with this one.
And no, I’m not trying to start a Mac vs PC flame war, I merely tease.
Or in more common parlance: Conspiracy Theories. Here’s 30 of them to spend some time reading about.
Now I’m a firm believer that large-scale conspiracies don’t actually exist, but I do find that they make nifty stories. I also think it’s a good exercise in critical thinking to consider them, and to find the flaws in reason or bad science.
What are your favorite ones? Are there any that you subscribe to?
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As I sit and listen to people talk about Columbus Day on the radio, I hear it’s a tribute to Italians. Hooray for Italy, though it was Spain that funded him…not my point. Let’s find a way to celebrate as many groups as possible. For example:
Just examples. Can we come up with at least one a week? Want to modify mine? The idea here is to not complain about different groups, but celebrate them all.
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A study recently found that life expectancy in America was increasing… and decreasing. Despite a general trend towards longer life from the 60s to the 80s, from the 80s onward there is a strong diversion of those areas with continuing growth of life expectance and those that are diminishing. Areas in green are increasing and areas in red are shrinking. I find it interesting that the turn around is the Reagan period and mostly in Republican dominated portions of America. I’m just sayin’.
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President Bush has often said that he would leave his presidency for future generations to decide. Well, a survey of modern historians has revealed that the first records of him will be overwhelmingly negative. His presidency has been compared to all prior administrations by historians, and as time has gone on, he has been rated worse and worse.
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