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Friday, March 24, 2006
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Barbara Bush donated to the Katrina relief fund - but she ear-marked her donation so that it can only be spent to buy educational software for her own son Neil's company. Charity begins at home, it seems. More here. This strikes me as a big deal. 
(Via Daily Dish.)
10:01:18 PM 
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Thanks to the3penguins for this nice little phototour of Dylan's Greenwich Village, then and now.
9:56:43 PM
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Andrew Sullivan, no atheist, has been writing a great little series on atheism in America:
A reader writes: "In regards to the whole idea of atheists being untrustworthy, you may find this reviling experience worth relating.
My ex-wife and I recently had a nasty custody dispute. In this dispute, I recently came very close to losing serious ground in my ongoing battle to be a central part of my son's life. The entire case for the opposing side had nothing to do with how I am as a parent; in fact, every witness for the other side could say nothing but good about my son's psycholigical health and good about my parenting. Instead, the entire objective of the other side was to smear me in court for being an atheist, or at the very minumum, not attending church regularly.
To make a long story short, the judge took away Sunday visitation from me permanently (I have my son every other week rather than every other weekend, so the change could have been much worse), so that the child "could get the religious instruction he needs" via my ex-wife. Similar verbiage actually appears in the court order. The repulsion I felt about all of this can never be described coherently. I was verbally lambasted by a judge in the United States of America for my religious beliefs, and suffered punishment for it (or perhaps, my son did, depending on viewpoint)... This happened in Mississippi, and I know better than to fight it - given that the original lawsuit aimed to reduce my visitation to every other weekend, I could have fared much worse, and the judge rightly guessed I would not wish to appeal and risk losing more ground when the case is sent back for reconsideration. But still, I have never, never felt so violated."
I wondr if more of this goes on than we are aware of. 
(Via Daily Dish.)
9:39:58 PM
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Bush on Global Warming. "Liberals and godless tax raisers are trying to use facts to make me look bad."
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