Glad to hear you're still employed, ChiKat! But sorry to hear about your fellow teachers.

Did y'all hear about Orly Taitz running for California Secretary of State? Yes, Ms. I'll-Sue-Indiscriminately-Until-Obama-Is-Outed-As-A-Kenyan is planning on running for statewide office.

Oh, totally Vortex. It's the easiest way to find porn in a new town.

Hey...I actually read the last 200 posts. Hopping Friday chez moi...The Babbage/Lovelace crimefighting thing? Sounds like Numb3rs Goes Steampunk. I would probably watch it, though I'd miss the cute Jewish boys...the British accents might balance it out though. I went to Comedy Central and saw Jon pick on Beck...is awesome. Might even be better than Olbermann's Beck, which I(Not that surprisingly) find pointed and hilarious.

But of course the problem with the value of the Confederate dollar after the “Great War of Yankee Aggression” was that the Confederates lost the war which naturally made their currency of treason and slavery worthless.

You could say that Confederate currency became useless because of an unfunded, unnecessary war.

Also, the term "War of Northern Aggression" (I've never heard "Yankee aggression.") only came into vogue some years after the war, usually in connection with states' rights. It does seem that the only right states' rights advocates are for is the right to not extend benefits to people who need them.

the right to not extend benefits to people who need them.

If God wanted them to have benefits, He'd have given them to them.

Smug SOBs.

edit: Amazing how many of those people suddenly turn into Darwinists: "If they weren't smart/skilled/rich enough to achieve those things, then they don't deserve them."

Well, it's one thing when really talented people act that way...it's another when you get that same argument from some idiot on livejournal or facebook. Because they're just lucky, that's all.

I always say that for every corporate executive like Bill Gates, there are a thousand more who are just as smart and talented but not as lucky.

Also, not as willing to play as dirty.

It is a little like the predestination doctrine-- we are all born full of sin, and some people have a clock of grace, and it is all predestines. But we should all act like we have the cloak of grace, just in case. So you both can and can't be blamed, simultaneously.

Ellen Gives $30,000 To Constance McMillen, Mississippi Lesbian, Over Prom Legal Flap

JACKSON, Miss. — A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Constance McMillen was speechless Friday when the talk show host pulled out an oversized check from the Web site Tonic.Com, a digital media company.

DeGeneres says she admires McMillen for challenging Itawamba County School District rules that would prevent her from escorting her girlfriend to the prom. The school district canceled the April 2 prom after McMillen's request.

A hearing is scheduled Monday in federal court in Aberdeen on American Civil Liberties Union efforts to force the district to hold the prom.

Go Ellen! And McMillen! And girlfriend!