Dear visionaries, So, someone wants to know if a Discrimination Event occurred in a local coffee emporium owned by Christians? Rumor control, aye. So then I heard that there is a special room in the basement of the admin building where the president of the University of Idaho goes every day at noon and kicks …
Burke the Progressive?
Morning, visionaries, As you may have surmised, I have no problem posting things that progressives find distressing to their tidy and very narrow worldview. And this is not that hard to do when dealing with fundamentalists who have no fundament. But I do not do it for the sake of being offensive — the point …
Reflected Glory
Dear visionaries, Don’t mean to quibble, but I wish that Linda would discontinue using that little tag at the bottom of her posts: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” Edmund Burke For as we know, Burke was a noted conservative extremist, one opposed to the …
Public Toplessness
Dear visionaries, In response to Erica, I was perfectly happy when we had no ordinance prohibiting toplessness. And I would be more than happy to go back there again. In fact, I would be delighted to propose that we ditch the ordinance. Will you all try to be tolerant and respectful of others this time? …
Judge Not
Dear visionaries, Morning, everybody. How do? Just a quick comment on John’s comment that a “local private college system” has been in essence removed from the tax rolls. Not quite true. If he is referring to the college I think he is, part of the reason we organized as a trust instead of a tax-exempt …
Toplessness and Honor
Dear visionaries, Stan chides us for our attitudes toward the government schools. He said “my father and my grandfather have preached to me that Christian people do these things without expecting consideration in return. It is simply the way life should be.” I actually agree with this completely, as far as it goes, and would …
New Names
Dear visionaries, Michael responded to my offer about naming the government schools by saying, “No deal on my part! I propose that you continue to call schools that are governed by the community ‘government schools’ I will hence forth refer to your unregulated schools as ‘madrasa’s’ Deal?” To which I say: If the schools are …
Gummint Schools Some More
Dear visionaries, My apologies for misspelling Ritalin. Kind of negates the impact of the occasional Latin. Ya think? In response to Samuel, I am willing to make a deal. I will start calling them public schools in this forum, schools belonging to us, the people, if you all will agree that we, the people, have …
Gummint Schools
Dear visionaries, Robert asked for a specific instance where government schools refused voluntary assistance from a well-intending parent. Before doing so, mindful of what a friend aptly labeled as the paradigm issues involved here, let me ask for a definition of “well-intended.” What does it mean? In full agreement with the NEA? Docile? On Ritilin …
Back Off Man
Dear visionaries, Susannah writes: “But I suspect that ‘attitude’ doesn’t restrict itself only to public school teachers . . . and I am certain it extends itself to many in the religious vocation. As in “back off, man, I’m god’s spokesman”.” The problem with professional educators in the government schools is not that they speak …