A homecoming tradition in which boys dress like girls and vice versa in a tiny Texas school district won’t be held Wednesday after a parent complained about what she regarded as the event’s homosexual overtones.
the complaining parent is one delana davies, backed up by the liberty legal group
“It’s like experimenting with drugs,” Davies said. “You just keep playing with it and it becomes customary. … If it’s OK to dress like a girl today, then why is it not OK in the future?”
well, as long as we’re clear that it’s never ok to dress like a girl….
more interesting is that the school district has replaced this tradition with a new one – camo day. encouraging children to dress up in camoflage and black boots.
if it’s ok to dress like a soldier, then why is not not ok in the future?
violence is always a better message to send to kids than sex.
welcome to your future, children. hello columbine.
posted by roj at 7:43 pm
in a followup to an important security story from last month, the notorious duck woman has been allowed to keep her business license.
”I basically agreed not to be present at school or church functions,” Williams said. ”And I also agreed to not ever bring products, only literature, to other public events that I might participate in.”
She also agreed to drop her federal lawsuit.
bzzzzzzzzzz…….
posted by roj at 9:12 am
praise be.
i hear edwards is a lawyer looking for a job…
but that’d never happen
posted by roj at 6:22 pm
i saw this come through the ap wire, but since the ap story gets traction by default, i figured it was more interesting to track down the local papers…
David M. Miyasato enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1987, served three years of active duty during the first Gulf War and received an honorable discharge in 1991. He remained on inactive status for five more years, until 1996. Since then, the Kaua’i resident has married, started an auto window tinting business and this year, he and his wife had their first child.
David Miyasato is suing the Secretary of the Army for recalling him to active duty. He had been told to report to a South Carolina facility.
But in September, Miyasato received a letter from the Army recalling him to active duty and directing him to report to a military facility in South Carolina on Tuesday.
Miyasato, who started an auto-tinting shop in Lihue two years ago, said he wrote to the Army pointing out that his enlistment had ended in 1996 after he served three years on active duty and another additional five in the inactive reserve.
When he received no answer from the Army, Miyasato turned to U.S. Rep. Ed Case and Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka to help him.
Miyasato said Akaka and Case were told by the Army that it would take 60 days to conduct an investigation.
Miyasato said going AWOL was not an option, so instead he hired attorney Eric Seitz, who requested a restraining order from the federal courts.
and it’s a nice story because miyasato isn’t ideologically motivated. he just thinks he’s done.
posted by roj at 9:15 am
in an important development in the campaign to make america safer, it seems that authorities in nashville have successfully driven the vibrating ducks out of the city.
Katherine Williams says the yellow ducky sponge she put on sale at a flea market is merely a child’s toy. City officials say the vibrator inside makes it a sex toy.
But officials in this Nashville suburb backed off from citing Williams for violating the city’s sexually oriented business ordinance because she had already taken down her display by the time police responded to complaints Saturday. Nearby vendors also refused to be witnesses in the case.
we may be safer for now, but we’re not safe. the perpetrator and authorities have set themselves up for an epic battle next year:
Williams said she’ll be back at the flea market next year.
“If she does, she’ll be cited into court,” [Nashville City Administrator Ken] York said. “That duck is a sexual toy, and it was on display. That was a vibrator on display in public view.”
posted by roj at 4:57 am
“I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” Scalia said.
“But it is blindingly clear that judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to decide what is moral.”
quick! someone call ashcroft!
posted by roj at 12:11 am
the conflict between jibjab and ludlow music, which claimed copyright on “this land is your land” is settled, based on the discovery that the song is, in fact, in the public domain.
the news is at eff which brought a lawsuit on behalf of jibjab. corante has a decent collection of posts and links on the story as it developed (start at the bottom, read up).
i didn’t see any news about refunds for anyone else that had been shaken down by ludlow music for use of the song since the copyright expired, but that would be an interesting follow-up.
posted by roj at 5:02 pm
it seems that the medical staff at abu ghraib were complicit in at least some of the abuse that’s been documented to date.
no links from me, since all the source material seems to be locked up behind registration things, and there’s plenty of coverage for this story elsewhere.
go looking for stories from dr. stephen miles about the prison, and you’ll find everything you need to know.
my two cents is something i’ve said since this story broke. i doubt this is substantially different than abuse in american prisons, but that story isn’t being told much. i just don’t think you can have that many people in prison, with that big an industry supporting it, and run a “clean” system.
posted by roj at 5:25 am
congratulations eff. mgm v. grokster.
posted by roj at 5:16 am
i’m shocked. shocked, i say.
A 76-year-old man who spent nearly every day of the last four decades in prison walked free after a judge found that deputies extracted his confession to a 1962 robbery by crushing his fingers between cell bars.
they didn’t have digital cameras back in 1962, or it might not’ve taken four decades. then again, the whistleblower might not need protective custody for doing the right thing.
this probably isn’t technically prison abuse, but “crushing finges between cell bars” fits the pattern.
posted by roj at 5:07 am