First they decide to preach Intelligent Design in public schools, and now this: a high school student in Kansas City was suspended for speaking Spanish outside of the classroom. He was reported as replying (in Spanish) to a friends’ request to borrow a dollar. Wtf? Seriously Kansas, get it together. I always knew Texas was [...]
18 Tricks to Teach Your Body Neat feats include overcoming the urge to pee, stopping a brain freeze and clearing a stuffy nose. Link via Boing Boing.
In honor of John’s 25th birthday, here’s a list of things that other slightly-more-famous people accomplished by the same age: (Warning — don’t read any further if you’re in your mid-20s, easily depressed and generally unhappy with your lack of accomplishment!) The future mythologist Joseph Campbell decided to move to Woodstock to read the classics [...]
I’ll have a first impression, with a twist What does your first-date drink order say about you? My personal favorite: “Whiskey and Coke: Borderline alcoholic.” Are you listening Sara?
If you haven’t already stumbled across this link while surfing the web, there’s a guy who’s been maintaining a blog of life from the new Ground Zero: Downtown New Orleans. He’s been holed up on the 10th floor of a data center, and his experiences roaming the streets are quite harrowing. With the media putting [...]