Happy Halloween
Image via Wikipedia When I was a child, I celebrated Halloween. I didn’t care for the gory and gruesome stuff. I didn’t even care for the scary stuff. I thought the costumes were fun, and I loved the candy. As an adult, I see more evil in the world thatn I’d like to admit. Today [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Exercise Confidence
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. Do you recognize those words? The Little Engine That Could, carrying a trainload of toys over the mountain. The load was so heavy and the journey was so long, the Little Engine was ready to give up. Defeated. I can’t do this, the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Halloween Decorations
Halloween decorations are already up? The local grocery store already has an entire aisle devoted to Halloween. And it’s only mid-September. That just ain’t right.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Banning Christmas
An administrator, Patricia Sonntag, at California State University, has banned Christmas. “Time has come to recognize that religious discrimination, as well as ethnic insensitivity to certain holidays, is forbidden,” Patricia Sonntag, director of the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities, stated in the directive she e-mailed to members of her staff on Dec. 9. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )Halloween Cancelled in Seattle
In Puyallup, Oregon, Halloween’s been cancelled this year. For obvious reasons, of course: dressing up as a witch is offensive to real witches. “Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that,” said Hansen. The school district cancelled Halloween, [...]
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