Mother upset by football player son’s baptism

The head football coach at Breckinridge County High School took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them were baptized, school officials say.

The mother of one player said her 16-year-old son was baptized without her knowledge and consent, and she is upset that a public school bus was used to take players to a church service — and that the school district’s superintendent was there and did not object.

“Nobody should push their faith on anybody else,” said Michelle Ammons, whose son, Robert Coffey, said Coach Scott Mooney told him and other players that the Aug. 26 outing would include only a motivational speaker and a free steak dinner.

Full Courier-Journal.com Article

I wonder if the steak was bacon-wrapped?  If so, then the mother should chill.

However, doesn’t this have the makings of a Simpson’s episode?  I can totally imagine Homer converting to anything for a steak or a donut.

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Ban on hymn at high school graduation upheld

A federal appeals panel has upheld a decision to bar the instrumental performance of a Christian hymn at a high school graduation in Everett, Wash.

The case arose after seniors in the Henry M. Jackson High School wind ensemble asked to play an instrumental version of “Ave Maria” at their commencement in June 2006. When school officials said no, one of the students, Kathryn Nurre, challenged them in court.

Full Article

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100 Things I Learned from the Movies

Below is a sample, but here’s the full list.

  • If you push the fat guy enough, he will snap – Full Metal Jacket
  • And everybody is racist, everybody – Crash
  • A rug really can tie a room together – The Big Lebowski
  • If a bear is hungry enough he will eat you – Grizzly Man
  • You can’t roll back an odometer by running the car in reverse – Ferris Bueller

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Personas – How Does The Internet See You?

WHAT IS PERSONAS?

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display until Sept 09 at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.

PHILOSOPHY

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person – to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

My results are below, but try your own name here.

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