1-2-3-4-5 censors working overtime
None of this should be surprising in a town with only 24,000 residents and 75 churches. But this is, of course, the rub of the religion cases: The Constitution is subject to neither majority rule nor to popular recall.Democracy is basically where the rubber hits the road in
religious education.
Faith is a useful and valuable thing and, thanks to the expert teaching of Mr. Jon Bon Jovi, I have learned to keep it. Testing that faith is the revelation that drug testing, already exhibiting weapons-grade pusillanimity
has gone nuclear. Losing your job as a result of a legal activity performed outside office hours rather cuts to the heart of a fair few issues. The stated aim is to do with health insurance, but surely this could be as well done by altering insurance premiums? I'm seeing this as the not overly svelte end of a potentially grotesquely large wedge.
Jokes about the quality of American intelligence aside, can you imagine how different the world would be if the Negropontai changed places? Nicholas' latest plan -
to innovate towards mass laptop ownership in Africa possesses myriad significance. Parasitic power, flash memory instead of hard drives and an entire continent of Linux users are just the techie bits.
Meanwhile, back to space, this (huge download)
picture of Manhattan is intended to show the Gates from space, but perhaps more significantly shows just how incredible Manhattan looks from above.
Last night I met some old co-workers. One is now training to be a drugs worker, the other looking for a space for her artists' collective. I shared their confusion at our respective choices and how little sense their allocation made. It was a disordered meeting, with all our minds on other things (Lord Haw-Haw, June Sarpong, the usual). Question of the night:
do you actually have a conscience?. Answers on a postcard.
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