Here are a couple of things that are on my mind today:
1. It is one of my beliefs that we live in a world with an increasing number of people who are chomping at the bit to be offended. Nothing gives certain people a sense of empowerment more than putting a stop to a person, place, idea or thing by complaining that "they have been offended." I will give you an example of this. Yesterday was the highly controversial holiday that I like to call "Valentines Day." This holiday is meant to celebrate love, give cards and candy, etc. Very, very scary stuff. Now, when I was a child we used to celebrate Valentines Day at school, along with the other Holiday's such as Halloween, Easter, Christmas, New Years, etc. Fast forward a few decades to today, and I have children of the grade-school age. They go to a public grade school in St. Paul. Do you think they can celebrate any of these holidays? No. You see, many of these holidays have roots in religion, or ancient druids or something, and have therefore offended somebody.
It all came to a head yesterday when my fifth-grade son came home and told me that they had "a little party" with some treats at school. The principal, however, came over the loud speaker to let the student body know "we are in no way celebrating Valentines Day, we are celebrating FRIENDSHIP DAY."
OK, lets think about this. Friendship Day. Somewhere along the line, some Euphorian was offended by Valentines Day (probably because of that bastard St. Valentine) and whined enough to put a stop to it. Friends, the Four Horseman are truly mounting up. Stuff like this drives me absolutely insane.
2. Folks, there is nothing like a good rant. Recently, University of Colorado Football coach Dan Hawkins received an anonymous call from one of his player's parents complaining about the lack of time off between the end of the football season and the start of conditioning. Coach Dan was not real happy about this and went on a little rant. His ability to go from calm and controlled to absolute rage was quite impressive. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G-EqpT-HG8
3. Tunes update. I have been listening quite a bit to The Band of Horses out of Seattle. As far as I am concerned, "The Funeral" is the best song of 2006 (in case you were wondering about that). Great video too. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibE7IqEjni4
Have a good one.
Jeff
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We send our kids to Catholic school and one of the best things is that they do get to celebrate all those holidays including Valentines, St. Patrick's day, etc. They have a Christmas program that puts you right into the Christmas mood, etc.
They teach religion too, but they stay away from Pope Encyclicals and trend toward the universal themes of religion such as love your neighbor and social justice.
Not for everyone of course, but there is a significant population of non-Catholics who attend and even a scattering of non-christian families as well.
Friendship day...? Next year maybe I'll try wishing my wife happy friendship day! and since its friendship day there will be no need for any gifts (new vaccuum,pots and pans)or cards cuz were friends... yeh right! What a bunch of hoo eee !
Yes, good luck with that!
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