Friday afternoon: Weekend, soon?

1. Welcome, derekl1963

 2. I know some of my readers will be amused – and feel pretty good -- that the following announcement appeared in the church briefs in today’s Glens Falls Post-Star:

 

Local coven offers Beltane celebration

GRANVILLE - Anamastia Coven, serving northeastern New York and southwestern Vermont, embraces a combination of Celtic traditional witchcraft and Druid metaphysical philosophy.

The coven offers seekers and veteran practitioners alike a coven meet in celebration of Beltane, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.

This event is for anyone genuinely interested in seeking membership in a coven.

For information, e-mail anamatiacoven@yahoo.com.

 

3. It is my opinion that Orson Scott Card is full of crap! www.linearpublishing.com/RhinoStory.html. There is such a difference between this proposed encyclopedia and authors using the same universal archetypes with their characters.

 

4. It’s not “Day of Silence” related, but it’s another one of those, “I thought we had moved beyond this” stories.

 

From 365gay.com

 
(Memphis, Tennessee) A public high school principal who posted the names of two boys on a list of students believed to be couples, revealing their relationship to their parents as well as other students and teachers, violated the students’ constitutional right to freedom of association, the American Civil Liberties Union charged Tuesday.

In a letter to school board officials in Memphis, the ACLU demanded that the school reprimand the principal and take steps to ensure such actions never happen again.

In September of 2007, the principal at Hollis F. Price Middle College High told teachers she wanted the names of all student couples, “hetero and homo,” because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in public displays of affection.  

The two students now represented by the ACLU, Andrew and Nicholas (who have asked that their last names not be revealed), were two A students who had been seeing each other for a short time and were attempting to keep their relationship quiet and private.  

The principal heard about them through another student, then wrote their names on a list she posted next to her desk, in full view of anyone who entered her office. 

One of the boys’ mothers personally witnessed the list when she met with the principal a few days later. 

 The rest is here:   www.365gay.com/Newscon08/04/042908school.htm

 

5. Just an observation. I felt kind of dumb when I read that up until yesterday (today?) the age of consent in Canada was 14. Now it’s 16. I just think many Americans have little or no knowledge about Canada. [This is not a veiled snark. It is an honest observation.]

 

6. Change in weekend plans. We are staying home tomorrow (Saturday) and day0tripping May Day Sunday.