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  • 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.

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  • arizona might be on to something

    I found this link via Dappled Things about Arizona’s Stupid Motorist Law. I like it 🙂 KGUN 9 News

  • Bishop Aymond and Priestly Transfers

    Parish rallies behind priest In today’s Metro section of the Austin American-Statesman, a story ran about St. Theresa’s parish in Austin and a priestly transfer currently in progress. After a five-year term as pastor, Fr. Gregory Romanski is being transferred to St. Martin de Porres Parish. Many parishioners disagree and wish for Fr. Greg to…

  • Educational Reform Blueprint

    Perhaps I don’t have the experience or the training needed to write up a blueprint on how to reform the educational process in this country. However, I do have some experience and I do have some training so I feel like I’m qualified to say something about blueprinting education reform. I found a section of…

  • so many books so little time

    Hello, my name is Brandon and I’m addicted to books. I have a bedroom covered with books- almost every corner has a book or two or four or six stacked up. All kinds of books as well. Campbell’s Biology to Sources of Chinese Tradition (as well as the Japanese and Koren counterparts) to the red…

  • the two-party problem

    I’m studying for my BIO 213 exam tomorrow while watching the Democratic National Convention on PBS. I saw on the news segments of a speech given by former Governor Ann Richards (D-TX). In short, she went on, in her usual attacking manner, about how we can not stand to let Bush appoint a Supreme Court…

  • a cool little book

    I went to the PCL (i.e. the main library) on campus today and found a Pontificale Romanum from 1895. It is the liturgical book that contains all the different rites and celemonies usually reserved for the Bishop. The edition in the library, and online here, was promulgated by Popes Benedict XIV and Leo XIII. It…