"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Friday, April 09, 2004
Don your socks and set your clocks its time for this Blog's Blogger Idol Week 12 Top Picks!
As the feathers flew there were particular poultry pundits who procured this blog's regard. They were, in no particular order:
GreenMan - The mystery of birds.Proof positive that birds are the same the world over. I used to hunt some of these same birds. Don't tell my wife though.
connexions - Hoot. A joke this good deserves a place in the top five!
And there ya have them. Check out the rest of the entries by clicking on the icon on the top. Until next week....!
Just Say No II A study of sex education programs in schools in Texas finds the state’s abstinence-only policy doesn’t work as well as hoped. “We didn’t find what many would like for us to find,” said Texas A&M University researcher Buzz Pruitt. His study shows that 23 percent of ninth grade girls have already had sex by the time they received abstinence lessons. And after they attend, the percentage increased. The numbers for boys are even worse, but they lag the girls by a year. Abstinence education, which must have “as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity” to get federal funding, has been strongly pushed by President George W. Bush, who was governor of Texas before he was elected president. (Dallas Morning News) ...Because girls said no to him while he was in school, and he wants to be sure that doesn’t change now that he’s out. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11
