Stuff I don’t understand…
+ how a school district in Maine can even think about offering birth control to middle-school girls ( as young as 11 and 12) to get birth control prescriptions without parental notification.
+ how school systems nationwide can be so clueless about sexual predators in the teaching ranks.
+ how the water reservoir at Lake Lanier that feeds 3 million people in metro Atlanta can be at risk partially because the Endangered Species Acts requires them to funnel water into Floirda to protect two species of endangered mussels!!
+ why JK Rowling can’t leave Potter interpretation to the readers, but has now forever changed the way the books will be read by declaring that Dumbledore is gay.
+ how ‘Good Morning America” could reserve three days of prime space for Joel and Victoria Osteen.
+ why Mike Huckabee impresses political pundits -(update–and also here) and can’t get the time of day from Dobson, Land and the other self-anointed evangelical power brokers.
Of course, there are lots of other things– that’s just from the headlines this week!!
In my bookstore, I came really close to throwing caution to the wind and categorizing “Become a Better You” in New Age and putting it next to Byrne’s “The Secret,” but since it would just get my co-workers grief, I decided not to…
By: Kyle on October 31, 2007
at 8:27 am