Thom Marshall wrote about a girl who wants to live with her step-mother instead of her biological one, only to be stymied by the courts. When will judges learn to keep their noses out of business like this? A 12-year old knows well enough what’s best. Far better, I might add, than a judge who’s…
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
A National Championship for a Real College – Hoorah!
It’s nice to see a real academy of education win an NCAA (baseball) championship for a change. Congrats to the Rice Owls! I’d love to see something like that happen in basketball. When pigs fly…
OK to Filter Porn at Public Libraries
In a better ruling than was issued in regards to the scourge of affirmative action, the Supreme Court ruled it is constitutional for libraries to filter porn on public computers. As you may know, I still believe it would be most effective to begin to partition the Internet into zones using top-level domain suffixes like…
Affirmative Action Lives On, Unfortunately
The Supreme Court has voted to allow “limited” forms of affirmative action in college admissions policy. Here’s what Houstonians had to say. Notice anything odd about the feedback page? Of those pictured, only one was a minority and I use that term loosely when referring to a college graduate. I found that highly amusing. Are…
Spam Is Killing the Internet
National columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard is taking her email address out of circulation because of spammers. This is the same problem as us common-folk have; perhaps someone important will care about her, though. Ultimately this is probably going to boil down to people being assigned an IP address the day they are born so as to…
White House Tells EPA to Omit Important Content From Report
How about telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but? If Christie Whitman cares so much about the report’s integrity, she ought not to have run out on her job.
Senator Hatch: Destroy Music Downloader’s Computers
Now that’s the legal and ethical vision a U.S. Senator should have! I’m just sorry that Orrin’s presidential bid floundered… I suspect there’s a band of 19-year old hackers looking into Hatch’s on-line presense even as I type…wrong bunch to poke a stick at… And who ever would have guessed he was a song writer?…
IRS Employees Mis-using Computers?
Internal Revenue Service employees using thousands of computers accessed prohibited Web sites, blah, blah, blah. There’s nothing unusual about this; every company has the same issues in this day and age. But maybe this is why I just got my tax refund this past week…
Environmentalists Never Happy
Now they’re complaining about hydrogen as a new environmental debate as erupted over hydrogen fuels. Can anything be worse than burning oil and driving Ford Expeditions???
No Reason for Washington Coach to be Canned
Coach Rick Neuheisel was fired for betting on the NCCA basketball tournament. The thing is, for those who may not know or care, he’s a FOOTBALL coach. So where’s the crime? The U. of Washington seems to have fallen in with the mob of schools firing their coaches over non-athletic “moral violations”. But this is…