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Friday, February 1, 2008

Friday Smorgasbord

No one story has jumped out at me today, so here's a link-fest of random cultural interests.

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Monday, August 28, 2006

High School Bible Study?

Here's something different from the usual body counts and scare-mongering hurricane watches: While skimming over Ahh, the Tolerance of Mudcat Sanders on LeanLeft, I saw that one of the platforms of the Democratic Party in Alabama is to teach Bible literacy in public schools. I can't verify whether that's actually true or not, since nobody gave me a convenient link to follow and the Alabama Democratic Party web page is hopelessly complicated, but let's assume it's true.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Professor Wars

Yesterday, the Crowhill Weblog referenced UCLA controversy might herald new front in culture wars, an article by Gwendolyn Driscoll. Perhaps you can guess GK's viewpoint on the matter. Ten points if you picked, "college professors should only be robots programmed to recite conservative-government-regulated teaching curriculums." (It's remotely possible that I'm not stating his viewpoint fairly.)

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