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Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
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Owning Guns As Important As Voting? So, California decided to pass a 25 question test onto potential gun owners. Okay, we pass a law requiring people who own cars to be proficient in their use and knowledgeable as to the laws/responsibilities that come with their use, but apparently we can't do that for guns. Alan Gottlieb has said "The right to own a firearm is no less important than the right to vote," but I'm not sure I agree. The right to own a firearm is a guaranteed one, for certain, but I would much rather they knew how to use it when they bought it, and what rights/responsibilities that went along with it. Had there been cars when the Constitution was written, we might have a guaranteed to own and drive a car.
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We're a big happy family here at NCEE, and everybody's been pitching in today, right up to our CFO who is currently stuffing bags in the assembly line. Hooray for egalitarianism. |
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Conference notes. The pale blue winter sky is more apparent here than it was in Los Angeles last week. The weather today on Hutchinson Island is 61 degrees with a light breeze. Thin strips of clouds are all that remain of the morning's overcast sky. In the office here, measured chaos seems to be the order of the day. We've run into problems with our nametag stationery being improperly cut and thus too large for the Printer and the Xerox machine. And of course there was the attendees' list that took until 10pm last night to proof read because it's 80 pages of addresses and names and emails and such. The amount of effort and work necessary to run a conference of 1500 attendees is truly staggering some times. But there were four of us, entering data changes and fixing things until well after 10 last night. We have a crew of 15 assembling packets for us at 1pm today, getting things ready for our conference that starts on Thursday afternoon. We've had pre-conference meetings that started today, four sessions on various school subjects. I can't fathom the cost that is associated with this stuff. $700 for the T1 access for the week. Plus the hotel, the convention center. A lot of money is going into this.
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ESPN spot on. Jim Caple is Spot On about California Sports. See Tiffany, there are Pittsburghers in SoCal. 11:36:22 AM comment [] 
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Donahue and Neil Boortz Apparently, Neil Boortz walked off Donahue last night during the first commercial break. He stayed about 10 minutes longer than he should have. Donahue set him up, and bad. His opening tirade was the most unbelievable thing I have ever watched on television and certainly represented a bias that Donahue has. Phil, if I turned your show off before we even hit the opening credits, how many people really watched that shit that you spewed out last night? Read Neil's piece though, it has good questions about what reparations to slavery might mean to Americans in general. 10:18:37 AM comment []
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Because Fear and Intimidation Work So Well... Great Article in the Washington Post today about Texas' Abstinence Only Sex Ed programs. Apparently the main method of teaching kids about sex in Texas is to scare them about it. Scare them that even with condoms they will get pregnant. Never mind that, used properly, condoms have a 97% success rate when it comes to pregnancy prevention. While the gentleman doing some of the education has a good point in that 14 year olds should not be dating college guys, I don't think teaching them that sex is dangerous is a wise psychological choice in the long run. I wonder if this is at all connected to Plastic's article the other day about The Epidemic of a Sexless Marriage. If we're teaching people to fear sex, and its results, not respect it as a commitment to each other, then perhaps aren't we causing more problems than we're solving? We need to teach people about sex, but we need to give them all the information and not one side of the story. 9:27:09 AM comment []
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So much bandwidth, all in my pants. Apparently, I have Bandwidth (with a capital B) in my pants. 8:48:59 AM comment []
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