So last week Little Flower got the big fat virtual cookie. This week you only get one line from one song. But here’s a hint or 2- the band is Australian and this song is an 80’s standard.
My possessions are causing me suspicion
but there’s no proof.
Monthly Archives: June 2006
The New Cold War
Fantastic article at Alternet about Cheney, Oil, Putin and the creation of a new cold war.
Click the title for the link. Safari hates Blogger.
Bitching and Moaning
I’m locked out of my email- again. All I get is MSN’s cheesy- account temporarily unavailable. I feel so cut off, disconnected. How will I communicate?
Oh yeah- I write a blog. Dope.
Anyone else get locked out of their email regularly? Should I be worried that the NSA has blocked my account so they can go see what terrorist themed junk-mail I get?
Daydream Believer
A girl can dream, well fantasize really, about a John Stewart- Stephen Colbert team in 2008. Ok- the fantasy doesn’t actually have me waiting till 2008 for a tag team of Stewart-Colbert, and they aren’t taking over the White House as much as they are taking over my bedroom in the uhm, daydream.
But if I want to publicly declare my love for the 2 ballsy boys- I can now do it with a campaign tee.
911 is not Fursday Funny
But Bush thought the day ended on a humorous note. Let’s see, while the rest of us were reeling from shock and trying to figure out how to explain to our kids that we had been attacked and thousands of people were probably dead- Bush thought the day made for mad-cap shenanigans involving the Secret Service.
Noonan: So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.
President Bush: That’s right — we got a laugh out of it.”
Nice that he could sleep that night though- he may have been the only one in the country who did.
Organic Sex?
The wingnuts, in an effort to appear full of crunchy goodness, are on an organic sex kick. But what is this organic sex thing- does it mean only fucking on unbleached, organic cotton sheets? No. Maybe only having sex in national parks- like Yellowstone? Nah. How ’bout using all natural lubes with organic herb enhancements? Nope.
It’s just a rehash of the same old crap. Organic sex is sex without birth control, because birth control is Un.Nat.Ur.AL. The only form of birth control acceptable to the fundies is the one that doesn’t work, the rhythm method.
I could get into a long diatribe about how stupid this is, but I think you should watch this and see for yourself. 
Because I am a sick sick girl…
First it was stuffed animal porn (I can’t wait to see what that does to our sitemeter tracking) now it’s the 3rd installment of 28 Days Slater. Is he Mario Lopez or AC Slater? Is Brandon Tartikoff speaking to him from the grave? Is everyone a preppy? Are spandex bike shorts coming back in style? 
A quick Fursday line
From “Last Comic Standing”:
I saw a homeless dude with a dog. The dog must be saying: this sucks. I mean, do we ever get to go home. I love long walks, but this is ridiculous!
Well I don’t suppose it counts as a Fursday Funny
but here we go:
Since Fursdays are our “recess” time here at the White Papers, and I found this on TBO just now, I thought I’d ask:
Do your kids have recess at their school?
A few years ago while I was working in a child care coordinating agency, I started hearing rumors that a lot of schools were gradually doing away with recess. I remember thinking: “that can’t be good…. don’t kids need a break from the classroom during the day?”
Apparently the rumors are true, and the Cartoon Network, of all people has found some experts with some fancy statistics & studies to back up what I guessed to be so:
An experimental study found that fourth-graders were more on-task, less fidgety, and less disruptive in the classroom on days when they had recess, with hyperactive children among those who benefited the most. Breaks are helpful, both for attention and for classroom management.
Olga Jarrett, child-development specialist at Georgia State UniversityChildren permitted to play freely with peers develop skills for seeing things through another person’s point of view – cooperating, helping, sharing, and solving problems (NAEYC, 1997). side note: NAEYC stands for National Association for The Education of Young Children. They are the professional organization for people in the business of teaching kids birth-8 years
How active are children during recess? Kraft (1989) and Pellegrini and Smith (1998) found that elementary school children engaged in physical activity 59% of the time during recess, with vigorous physical activity occurring 21% of the time–slightly more time in vigorous activity than occurred during physical education (PE) classes (15%). Physical activity improves general circulation, increases blood flow to the brain, and raises levels of norepinephrine and endorphins – all of which may reduce stress, improve mood, induce a calming effect after exercise and perhaps as a result improve achievement.
OK, I know what you’re thinking…. if you’re reading this blog, chances are you may be, in the words of Hanna-Barbera, “Smarter than the Average Bear” and recess for you may have provided not only a chance to let off steam but an opportunity to practice your bully-avoidance skills. (believe me, been there, done that) But, the mean kids notwithstanding, recess still meant a breath of fresh air, a chance to use our brains for something other than the multiplication tables, or whatever it was we were supposed to be memorizing that day, our hands for something more interesting than scratching out workbook answers.
Recess was a brief space of freedom, a chance to do what you wanted in a day filled with instructions.
Recess was a given, only taken away as dreaded punishment for particularly greivous, usually collective offenses.
I’m sure that school administrators have their reasons; valid concerns that need to be addressed. I don’t really think they’re all evil monsters who hate kids….
But what if eliminating recess creates more problems than it solves?
response to wonder’s “gospel”
Without being judgmental, I want to share my feelings about Chrisitanity and religion in general. Like many, I only accept that Jesus existed. He must have been an extradorinary person, but I cannot believe that God existed through him. In fact I am unsure that “God” exists. I do know that most of what Christians preach, all humans should accept better ways of being human; if you do good in your life and there is an afterlife, then you have nothing to worry about. If there is no afterlife and you have done good, that is enough to make life in itself worth living; if all lived like that at all times. live on earth would be a cakewalk.
I admit, I am close to being one of those who thinks religion has outlived its usefullness. while I don’t think science replaces religion, its role is not up to helping the contemporary. Perhaps, this makes me jaded, but it is an opinion I am happy with.
My biggest problem with religion is that I think it is a personal choice that few people want to keep themselves. If there is a God, there is no right way to worship him/her. From another perspective, my belief is that religion is a personal choice, but I don’t go around trying to convert others to my point of view.
Having said all that, I do hold that we need some type of belief to help our unrational selves; science is not a substitute; it simply is what it is. I guess this is way of saying I accept the need to embrace others as wonder attempts, but I would like to leave the Jesus part out of it.