Turn in your classmates for $$$! What a great idea! Of course, the Nazis came up with it first; except that they let you turn in your parents (actually, to be fair, I found that this commonly-held view of the Hitlerjugend is most likely false – see this interesting treatise). Maybe instead we could work on addressing the societal roots that cause guns to end up in school: culture of violence, easy access to firearms, socioeconomic imbalances, ethnic prejudice, etc. Nah, why do that? Sounds like another one of those namby-pamby liberal crackpot ideas to me…
Here’s some good satire on Tom DeLay. Of course, it’s so true that your laugh may be somewhat uneasy. Here’s one sure way to find out if there is a God: thumbs up if DeLay gets bounced out of Washington. Wait a minute; I retract that statement. God wouldn’t waste her time on such a worthless piece of drek as DeLay. Wait; now I retract that. God really should be on the prowl to rescue the greatest sinners, and “Little Satan” DeLay certainly qualifies as one of them. Maybe we just shouldn’t tie the existence/non-existence of God to anything to do with DeLay…
Great story about some people that recognize that people are people the world over. Some soldiers in the North Dakota National Guard are trying to bring an Iraqi family back to the U.S. to protect them from retribution. The father of the family was killed by insurgents for his role in helping the soldiers find and remove roadside bombs in Iraq.