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Dousing the Dream

The Olympic Torch relay has turned into a fiasco.
In London yesterday, protesters tried to grab and put out the torch, and 37 people were arrested. Today in Paris, it seems that officials had to temporarily extinguish it — twice – and put it on a bus. Via Bloomberg:
The Paris leg of the relay […]

Adding color to a black and white world

As AC was getting ready to leave for school this morning, I took a moment to talk to her about yesterday’s shootings at Northern Illinois University. I didn’t want her to hear about it on the bus or in the halls at school, the way she’d learned about the murder spree at VA Tech […]

Pinheads

Thank goodness there are bureaucrats to protect Katy from the truly dangerous.

(With special thanks to Adorable Child for the graffiti writing…)