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The UT football team picked up another highly touted recruit, a 6-4, 305-lb.offensive lineman. One thing: he's only a junior in high school.
When the Pope speaks, we do our best to understand him. This weekend, he called for an "honourable solution" to the Iran nuclear disagreements in an effort to bring about World Peace.
Last week, our favorite President George Jr. met with Chinese President Hu Jintao. There were several things on their agenda to discuss.
This morning, many homosexual parents and their children will participate in the annual White House Egg Roll. We think that this is a great way to show off your sexual orientation. And fun for the kids, too!
Some priests think they can get away with murder. A Priest is on trial this week as he is accused of the murder of a nun over 25 years years ago that apparently involved Satantic Ritual.
The Department of Homeland Security released a report recently that criticises the way that FEMA dealt with natural disasters last year, especially hurricanes. The agency was apparently pre-occupied with potential acts of terrorism and overlooking the immediate needs of many Americans.
Australopithecus anamensis, you know, that guy. Well, his remains were found in Ethiopia and they fill a really important gap in the study on evolution.
Today begins the fifth effort of the Texas Legislature to come up with a solution for school funding. We are hoping they can get something accomplished during this Special Session, or well before we decide to have children.
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So now Katie Holmes is a Scientologist and she's not going to get a giant pacifier.

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By Jessica Thornton in News on April 17, 2006 8:00 AM 0 Comments

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SN

Thanks for the clarification, Allen. And Jessica, sometimes I just get tired of people implying that doing normal, everyday activities with my partner equals making some sort of political statement about sexual orientation. Sometimes, what I really wanted to do was to just eat out, have fun at a public event, or attend a funeral of a friend.

Jessica

I fail to see any issues with the post. It wasn't meant as offensive in ANY regard and I'm still not seeing how it could be.

allen

actually, i think that was meant as a sarcastic rejoinder to Tool(ey)'s remark, "How unfortunate they should choose to politicize the White House Egg Roll." Certainly, though, the emphasis could've been placed elsewhere to greater effect, such as:

"*We* think that this is a great way to show off your sexual orientation"

or

"We think that this *is* a great way to show off your sexual orientation!"

It's more a matter of how one decides to inflect, really.

But personally, if I were those kids, I wouldn't see anything fun about trying to keep a damned egg on a spoon.

SN

Hmmm, judging from the tone of this, I'm guessing that you're saying that same sex parents need to stay at home with the blinds drawn because even an act as simple as taking their children to hunt (or roll) Easter eggs on Easter is nothing more than "showing off your sexual orientation". Maybe you could also remind them not to go out as a family to a theme park, restaurant, or grocery shopping because some child might see them and be haunted by nightmares of anal sex. After all, the best way to assure lasting "fun for the kids" is to teach them early to be deeply ashamed of themselves and their families.