A North Carolina school board has decided to allow students to carry pepper spray at school. While this seems like a stupid idea in an environment where emotions often run high and fights are not uncommon, it’s even worse when you consider that one of the board members said this was specifically to target transgender students: A North Carolina school system has adopted a policy allowing high school students to carry pepper spray this fall, a policy one board member... Read more
Scientists doing work. Hngh! Are you listening, Walgreens? Read more
In the recent election in Iran a number of reformists managed to win seats. One of them was Minoo Khaleghi who is *gasp* a woman: Minoo Khaleghi easily won a seat in the Iranian Parliament in February, part of a wave of independents and reformists who now have the numbers to wrest authority from the hard-liners. On Wednesday, however, a powerful state committee demonstrated that the conservative forces would not relinquish power without a fight. How could they possibly fight... Read more
“I just know it.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BFSOs_0uPdM/?taken-by=stinkylinkythefrenchie My favorite is actually the troll as hell puppy behind him. Read more
Ok, so the Reason Rally is coming up. You may recall that I’ll be there squawking the national anthem. 🙂 They’re doing one last fundraising push that is actually going very, very well, but more would still make a big difference. Our coalition members and just a handful of key donors have financed the majority of the Reason Rally 2016, but we need to raise $100,000 to close the gap. Your one-time donation helps us cover costs for things like A/V... Read more
Good morning, everybody! It’s voice lesson day, so I’m gonna scan the news, post a couple articles, then hit the road to teach the youngsters. View post on imgur.com Read more
Cliven Bundy is suing various members of the federal government: Sen. Harry Reid, Reid’s son, Judge Gloria Navarro, and President Obama: Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, jailed for his role in instigating an armed standoff with federal authorities in 2014, alleges a vast conspiracy to violate his civil rights in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The suit names Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV), his son, Rory, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro and President Obama as defendants. One of the first sections of... Read more
In response to North Carolina suing the DOJ, Loretta Lynch held a press conference yesterday to announce that the DOJ would be suing the state of North Carolina. She pulled very, very few punches: To quote a part of her speech: “This is not the first time that we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress for our nation. We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation. We saw it in fierce and widespread... Read more
A group of Hasidic rabbis who formed a private school are upset over laws being enforced that say the school must actually teach secular subjects and, y’know, educate its students: Pray for us! That’s the message a leading Hasidic rabbi gave to his thousands of followers in response to the city Education Department’s investigation into its schools failing to teach secular subjects as required by law. Wait, secular subjects like…what? English? Math? History? Why wouldn’t you want to teach your... Read more
A British headmaster at the Acorn School in Nailsworth has gotten some attention for claiming that fiction such as Harry Potter can cause mental illness in children: Can reading “Harry Potter,” “The Hunger Games” and “The Lord of the Rings” cause brain damage in children? The principal of a British private school says yes. In a lengthy blog post that went viral over the weekend, Graeme Whiting, the headmaster of the Acorn School in the English town of Nailsworth, claimed... Read more
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