You are Deep Space Nine. You goth, you.
What Star Trek are you?
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December 24, 2004
YES!
Merry Christmas
The reason for the season is love.
Not hate, not intolerance.
With that said, Merry Christmas, Happy Chunukah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Holidays to all!
And here’s hoping I get to be a digicam whore tomorrow!
And I’m still here!
This Christmas Eve, head over to Unspunand read a Jew’s take on Jesus.
A Lovely Evening Planned For Moi
Today was like the worst day ever to work. It was very slow and I had a grand total of two deliveries.
The first was to the loss prevention team at Target. Between getting my car into the parking lot of Target, getting yelled at for parking on the curb at Target, and weaving my way through the crush of people trying to get into Target, the $1.50 tip seemed somehow the perfect way to cap the event.
My second — and final — delivery was to State Farm insurance down on York Road. Finally, customers who know how to tip! And judging from Jamal’s deliveries, he was having worse luck than me. State Farm hooked me up nice, and as I was leaving called out, “Thank you, Merry Christmas!”
Well, the cute dark-haired girl at the desk yelled back, “I’m Jewish!”
I turned back and said, “Happy Chunukah!” and got a laugh.
I love customers with a sense of humor.
Anyway, I’ve got some General Tso’s chicken in the other room, and some beer. I’m going to settle down in front of the telly for an episode of Old School Star Trek, then I’m going to clean my apartment & wrap some gifts.
Fun night, huh?
Tis the Season?
Another father, who asked to remain anonymous, echoed Benson. He said the same students pick on his daughter: Even though she’s Catholic, they think she should go to their church, he said. The father said his daughter has been bullied since sixth grade and, despite his frequent calls and e-mails to administrators, the abuse continues.
“If they take more action than they currently have, there’s the fear of admission that they were aware of the problem before and did nothing about it,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t know how much the administration is involved or if they do walk through the world with blinders on so they can honestly say, ‘I don’t know.’”
He said he thinks a religious group might be using the school as a way to “have a private school but not have to pay for it.”
In addition to the harassment, he and Benson said the school’s pro-Christian leanings make a hostile environment for non-Christian students. They said students have distributed fliers for religious activities, student presentations often have religious themes and some events used to be held at a nearby church. The school’s auditorium is still under construction.
Roughly 5 percent of Peak to Peak’s middle-schoolers requested to leave the school during the 2002-03 school year, a slightly higher percentage than in other area middle schools, district numbers show. About 1 percent of Louisville Middle School students and 3 percent of Angevine students requested a transfer.
A Louisville mother who is Buddhist called her daughter’s three months at Peak to Peak “a nightmare.” She said the school had obvious fundamental Christian undertones. Parents frequently talked about church, and their children were out of control in class, said the mother, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“I think they put so much stress on these little ones that they just snap,” she said.
Judd Golden, chairman of the Boulder County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said he has received complaints from Peak to Peak parents and students for the last three years about religious harassment that’s not taken seriously enough by the administrators.
“We think they’re failing to adhere to religious neutrality,” Golden said. “Students’ religious beliefs are being demeaned.”
He said the repeated complaints led him to the conclusion that there must be tacit support for Christian bullying at the school.
’tis the season, huh?
Hat Tip: Jesus General.
You can keep it, thanks
If you were looking for proof that money does not buy happiness, you can’t do better than this tragic story of what a $300 million lottery win did to this family two years down the road.