I love the scary message from the State.
“In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in ‘inappropriate political activism’ could face the following consequences: […] Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.” (source)
My brothers and sisters, big scary liberal Austin ISD done already marked kids as an unexcused absence if they walked out.
It’s been a good period since last reflecting upon whatever I reflect upon on here. That has mostly been because there hasn’t been much to discuss. The summer semester has come and gone with the fall approaching us on Wednesday. I’m putting on hold the project to compare the current translation of the Missal to…
As I mentioned yesterday, the City of Austin is closing a good portion of downtown for the Lance Armstrong parade today. When I rode the bus home yesterday, nothing seemed too distrupted. Today, however, I really feel for Cap Metro drivers. As I was riding the bus from Oltorf to campus, the first sign of…
I found old Zip disks from high school during my packing tonight. Although I shouldn’t have, I went to the Welch lab and converted them over to a CD so I could access the files. After a time playing with formats (Mac-based graphics software from 1998 isn’t quite as compatable with Windows XP as I…
On Friday evening, there will be a parade celebrating Lance Armstrong’s sixth Tour de France victory. The parade, being held on Congress Ave south of the Capitol, will tangle up downtown traffic for more than just Friday. Parking along Congress has been blocked north of Sixth Street since yesterday morning. Congress between 11th and 9th,…
I am a Catholic through-and-through. I believe in all the tenets of the Catholic Church and wished that all men would follow them as well. Equally so, I know that if all would follow Christ and His Church, peace would reign over the earth. That being said, I have been thinking and reflecting a good…
From an article about the Lakeway plane crash in the Austin American-Statesman: He’d heard that Syler’s childhood friend and former business partner, Curtis Treadwell, had died in a plane crash earlier Tuesday just outside Lakeway, along with Treadwell’s wife, Jennifer, their two children and Jason Jones, a friend and business associate of both Treadwell and…
