Archive for August, 2005

Theories…

Aug 6th

Posted by Ash in Ash

In an open letter to the Kansas school board Bobby Henderson asks that if the Christian theory (I use the term "theory" VERY loosely) of "Intelligent Design" (remember when it was called creationism?) is to be taught to children in Kansas schools, then his theory in which the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster should be included as well. Hopefully this example will show them the sheer folly of allowing strictly religious theories to be taught in any public school, as it will open the door for any other religious group to demand that their theory be taught as well.

My opinion about this whole issue is: Religious theories should never be taught in public schools. Ever. That is what churches/synagogues/mosques/temples are for. If you want your children to receive religious instruction while in school, then send them to a private school that offers it. This whole movement to get creationism taught in public schools is merely a thinly veiled attempt by certain religious groups whose only goal is to shove their beliefs down everyone else’s throat… Whether we want it, or not. Sad, but true.

He also offers another interesting theory:

You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

Hmmmm… It makes you think, doesn’t it?

The Chuckle Of The Day Is…

Aug 2nd

Posted by Ash in Ash

Smilie Dreamhost (our hosting company btw) has a hilarious flash video (QT version also available) on their brand spanking new blog:

Let’s Save Our Environment

One day my uncle picked up a hitchhiker going down Topanga Canyon Blvd. The hitchhiker gave my uncle a packet containing a cd-rom video and a few pages of song lyrics and the synopsis/proposal for a movie called "Kathy and Erol". Here is the video for your consideration (click load and then the play arrow near the bottom): More →

All I know is: This guy must be high on life… and glue! *lol*

One More Week!!!

Aug 1st

Posted by Ash in Morgan

There’s only one more week to go until school starts! Yaaaaaaaaay!!! I’ve almost made it through my first summer vacation as a parent, and now I can understand why my mom was so glad to see us go back to school every year! Before Morgan started school, summers were just like all the rest of the days of the year, but now they’re something I don’t look forward to, but then, neither does Morgan. He has really missed going to school, but I have missed him going more! He’s so much better behaved when he has a lot of structure in his schedule, and he gets a lot of that during the school year. There’s only so much structure we can give him when he spends long periods of time at home because his schedule is so fluid, and he can do what he wants, when he wants. It’s good in some aspects, and bad in others.

He’ll be in the 1st grade at a new school this year, but still in a centralized structured classroom for children with autism. He’s looking forward to going back to school so much that he mistakenly thought that today was going to be his first day of school, and woke Pookey & I up at 5 am asking to go to school! We had to disappoint him by telling him that there was no school today, and to go back to bed. Needless to say, we’ve been talking to Morgan about him going back to school a lot lately so he can start getting used to the whole idea. This Friday we are all going to an open house at his new school, though he already met his new teachers, and saw his new classroom when we went to visit the school in mid May. Still, it’ll be nice to drop off all of his school supplies before schools starts, and avoid all of the chaos we had to deal with last year. All I can say is that I can’t wait for next Monday to come!