Happy Fourth
I hope everyone has a good Fourth of July. I'll spend the bulk of mine at the office, a payback for my extended leave. You know you're busy when you're looking forward to working on a holiday because "the phone won't ring."
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Another good review of Ratatouille. I saw it with my children while on vacation. I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't put it in the same class with The Incredibles or Toy Story.
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"We did not file this lawsuit because the ACLU is anti-religion ... We did file this lawsuit because we believe this display is clearly in violation of the law," said Vincent Booth, president and acting executive director of the Louisiana ACLU chapter.
"We don't hate religion, we just want it extricated from every nook and cranny of the public sphere--a sphere, incidentally, that we think should be as large as possible (unless we're dealing with sex)."
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Bill Gates' holiday is ruined: Mexican tycoon overtakes Bill Gates as world's richest man.
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Are they objecting to the use of pretty women or a priest with an entrepreneurial spirit?
A Polish priest has started a row after opening a nationwide chain of cafe-bars and promising to employ only sexy waitresses.
Father Henryk Jankowski, a priest who played a prominent role in the Solidarity movement, said: "Ugly women need not bother apply to become waitresses in my cafes."
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You've heard about Wikipedia, and about how anyone can edit entries. Sometimes the edits are right, sometimes they're wrong. They then get re-edited. Then the person edits it back. It gets vicious. Wikipedia has gathered together some of the most heated and humorous edit wars.
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Ted Nugent thrashes the 1960's. Pretty good stuff from the author of Cat Scratch Fever. Excerpts:
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco. . . .
America is still suffering the horrible consequences of hippies who thought utopia could be found in joints and intentional disconnect.
A quick study of social statistics before and after the 1960s is quite telling. The rising rates of divorce, high school drop outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime, not to mention the exponential expansion of government and taxes, is dramatic. The "if it feels good, do it" lifestyle born of the 1960s has proved to be destructive and deadly.
So now, 40 years later, there are actually people who want to celebrate the anniversary of the Summer of Drugs. Hippies are once again descending on ultra-liberal San Francisco--a city that once wanted to give shopping carts to the homeless--to celebrate and try to remember their dopey days of youth when so many of their musical heroes and friends long ago assumed room temperature by "partying" themselves to death. Nice.
