Some students in Bakersfield, California are suing their school [and/or district] for prohibiting the publication of articles on homosexuality which said students wish to publish in the school newspaper. Read about it from the AP via CNN [no longer available].
The students should lose.
I’m making some minor changes to how I display the Front Page of Off on a Tangent. First, I’ve made it a bit shorter. There are now only five items shown with content—one ‘headline’ item at the top, and four secondary items.
You all know what I think about the World Trade Center plan (see Group proposes rebuilding Twin Towers and How about making it look good?). Turns out that Donald Trump agrees with me! He has proposed rebuilding the twin towers in New York mostly as they were before—only more than 100 feet taller. This is what the real-estate mogul has to say about the Libeskind plan:
Yes, somewhat ironic I suppose, but I’ll be spending a part of my next-to-last full weekend as a bachelor at a wedding. Congrats-in-advance to Joe and Kim, who will be getting married tomorrow in Williamsburg!
CNN reports that the pilots who breached DC airspace yesterday have been released without charges.
Let’s think about this for a moment. . . . If I drive 75 in a 35 zone because I don’t know the speed limit, I’d still be charged with speeding and/or reckless driving. If I ran a red light because I didn’t see it and caused an accident, I’d still be charged with running a red light.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
