Category: Odds & Ends

Is this a sign that the culture wars are getting people all worked up? One of my friends on the net sent me one of those e-mail petitions trying to save religious TV from being suppressed by Madalyn O’Hair and petition 2493.
Normally, I’d expect an experienced Internet user like Bob to spot that phony-baloney story a mile away. Maybe the current spate of stories about anti-religious and anti-moral moves in society has got him on edge and made him more willing to fall for such an appeal.
But there is no truth to it: poor old O’Hair is dead, and she never tried to get the FCC to ban religious TV. The real petition 2493 didn’t involve her and was not an attempt to do that anyway. It sought to bar religious organizations from getting “educational” broadcast licenses. That petition was turned down: in 1975!
Let’s stamp out these scare-mongering stories, folks.

I’m a bit of a traditionalist about funerals. Burying people in a fixed place rather than taking their cremated remains home helps avoid this sort of thing.

I sent Steve Schultz a note today:

While you’re at it, what’s your paper-mail address going to be at the seminary?
(“Snail mail” isn’t a very nice term: I like to think of it as “Mail Classic”.)
–RC

For the Arnold quote contest we have two winners.
The quote that Arnold didn’t say was:
E) “California doesn’t need a tax hike. It needs Gray Davis out of office and teaching politics at a community college.”
I made that up. I just like the thought of Gray Davis teaching Civics 101 at the Tumbleweed Campus of Chico State Community College. He could start wearing those blazers with the elbow patches like in the old Spiderman movies.
So here are the winners:
Robin (looks like a Shea from the e-mail address) &
Chris of Maine Catholic
Congrats! The other quotes were found on FoxNews in various articles and on We Love Arnold, a site from the same people that brought us We Love The Iraqi Information Minister.

Found a cool net-toy: according to Google, these sites are similar to ours. The graphic is from TouchGraph. It’s fun to just watch the thing draw.