Finally, we got to the important stuff in sign language class last night–a short list of the most useful swear words. Now I can go on Howard Stern.
Do any of you remember that movie Children of a Lesser God? Remember when Marlee Matlin cussed out William Hurt, her hands flying and gesticulating? [...]
Oh, how the mighty child-molesting, child-pimping, wife-and-children-reaassigning have fallen.
I especially like this:
“Warren Steed Jeffs told his lieutenants he was invincible, protected by God from capture, investigators say. According to Utah’s attorney general, bodyguards for the polygamist sect leader had promised a gunfight and said they would die for him.
Those vows, fortunately, amounted to nothing Monday [...]
I think Joel Stein is one of the funniest writers out there. Please enjoy yourself reading this week’s essay for Time magazine about Mel and The Chosen People.
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I’m so happy when the news fits right into my book. (And by the way, we have a new title! It’s EVOLUTION, ME, AND OTHER FREAKS OF NATURE. Love it. Ready to print it on a thousand T-shirts.)
A Kansas community is fighting blood and guts over whether to continue teaching evolution [...]
For those of you who think Christians are all about judgment and rules and corruption scandals like Ralph Reed’s, here’s a bright spot from yesterday’s church bulletin:
“The [Methodist] Annual Conference is formally opposing a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban gay marriages. Demomination leaders said that marriage is threatened by forces [...]
Victory for the Hollywood directors and other creative artists combatting the scrubbing of their movies! A judge agrees that altering films without permission violates copyright law. Whew.
In case you don’t know, scrubbing is the practice of taking out all the naughty bits from a film. Think of the movie house operator in [...]
Diana Peterfreund brought up something in a comment today that irritates me so much, I have to deal with it in a separate post.
Her comment was about Ah, the smell of a book burning, which dealt with a school administrator’s attempt to ban certain books in a high school. I pointed out that the [...]
Another school district trying to ensure children won’t accidentally hear about evolution.
My favorite line:
“It had been the school’s policy since 1995 to tear out chapters on evolution from science textbooks out of ‘respect for the family teachings of a significant number of Cobb County citizens’ . . .”
Wow, what a service. [...]
My book: I got an e-mail from my editor at Knopf saying the production schedule for my novel THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION has been sped up, so the novel will come out in summer, 2007. Hurray!! Fall, 2007 was sounding SO far away. Now the book will be out just in [...]
I grew up Baptist. Fundamentalist Baptist. Consider of all the things you think that might mean.
One of them is it took a long, long, LONG time until I could accept homosexuality. And as with many prejudices, the thing that finally cured me was finding out that someone I love is gay. [...]