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By
thudfactor on
July 11, 2006
I’m reminded by “the discussion here”:http://tinyurl.com/s4hua that there are far more egregious examples of government interference in religion than the Department of Veterans Affairs “refusing to put a pentacle on a dead Wiccan soldier’s memorial”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/07/09/emblems-of-belief/.
Consider the American Indian. Although there is a commercial, New-Agish, homogenized “Native American Spirituality” that tracks more closely perhaps with neopaganisms than [...]
Posted in Religion
| Tagged American Indian Trust Fund, Arizona, Bureau of Indian Affairs, California, Colorado, Department of Veterans Affairs, federal government, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Osage Nation, Patrick Stewart, Robert Soto, State government, Texas, Virginia
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By
thudfactor on
August 5, 2005
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Era of Small Government is over[1]. In the ongoing quest to rename everything in the Washington DC area after Ronald Reagan there’s a “new proposal”:http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=550621. Some Congressman from Texas wants to rename 16th Street Northwest[2] “Ronald Reagan Boulevard.” Of course, Washington DC taxpayers would have to pay for the [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Bill Frist, Evil Voice, GIF, National Airport, Pentagon, Reagan National Water Treatment Facility, Reagan Presidential Urinal Cake, Reagan Washington, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Building, Ronald Reagan Defense Building, Ronald Reagan Memorial Cat Box, Ronald Reagan Washington Monument, Small government, Texas, Union Station, USD, Washington DC, Washington National Airport, White House
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By
thudfactor on
April 30, 2005
Posting from Dallas, TX. From the airport, you know, it really isn’t all that.
PS: Neither is Paris. Very not impressed with Paris from my limited experience with the Paris airport.
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Dallas, Paris, Paris airport, Texas
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By
thudfactor on
January 17, 2005
When the Supreme Court ruled a while back in _Lawrence v. Texas_ that anti-sodomy laws in Texas were un-constitutional, I called it a civil rights victory for everyone — straight or gay — because it reaffirmed the notion that governments do not have any significant interest in what kinds of sexual activity consenting adults are enjoying. It was a [...]
Posted in Sex
| Tagged Kinsey, Supreme Court, Texas, tha law, Virginia, Virginia State Supreme Court
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By
thudfactor on
December 17, 2004
In large part out of protest of our galloping puritainism, but also because the topics are “eww” inspiring, here are two links you _should not miss_ (if you are over 18).
* The Literary Review’s “Bad Sex Award”:http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1373416,00.html.
* “"Personal" attachments for cell phones”:http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66052,00.html. (”May not be legal in Texas”:http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-08-11/xtra_feature2.html.)
Posted in Diary
| Tagged cell phones, HTML, Texas
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