Quakers Gone Wild II: Swarthmore College
February 28, 2006
When we last checked in our good friends the Quakers (yesterday), one of the colleges that they’d founded (Guilford; Greensboro, NC) was seriously discussing the idea of co-ed rooms. The administration of Guilford was treating this as a reasonable idea to at least discuss. The administation at Guilford must be smokin’ the good stuff…
Anyway, in today’s installment of Quakers Gone Wild, we find that Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania), again a Quaker school and one with such a social conscience as to have removed bottled Coca-Cola from some of its dining facilities due to some alleged anti-union violence in Colombia, is playing host (tomorrow) to the Sex Workers Art Show. Yep, the Quakers Gone Wild are celebrating prostitution and the like.
As a bonus, going to the Swarthmore website, I learned that they’re just busting at the seams with pride over their new Islamic studies program. Yippee-kay-ay, cowboy! They say that they weren’t planning to fast-track the program, but after 9/11, they just have to move things along. Hey, here’s a thought: how ’bout, in your wonderful Islamic studies program, studying why these folks go insane and erupt in violence at cartoons.
Wonder what William Penn would think about all this? Actually, nah, I don’t wonder…
For Once, Sanity is Unanimous on the Supreme Court
February 28, 2006
Thus ends a silly episode in which the National Organization for Women—one of America’s silliest groups—tried to muzzle free speech by appealing to the RICO Act, arguing that people who demonstrate outside abortion clinics against the violence inside were guilty of racketeering. Please…
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Abortion Protesters
Thankfully, the Court saw through this tissue-thin argument.
What You Don’t Know about Katrina…
February 28, 2006
will boggle your mind.
According to the March issue of Popular Mechanics, “the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest–and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm’s landfall…While the press focused on FEMA’s shortcomings, this broad array of local, state and national responders pulled off an extraordinary success–especially given the huge area devastated by the storm. Computer simulations of a Katrina-strength hurricane had estimated a worst-case-scenario death toll of more than 60,000 people in Louisiana. The actual number was 1077 in that state.”
Truth is the first casualty when disaster strikes; unfortunately, untruth still abounds. Pop Mech offers not only objective analysis of the situation, but solutions for averting future disasters. Those in positions to do something about it could do worse than taking their suggestions seriously.
Fraudulence and Flatulence
February 27, 2006
Cross Robert Tilton with a guy who knows how to add sound clips to video at just the right point, and you’ve got…well, you’ve got something that is pretty funny
Hard to say what’s funnier: the sound effects, or the ridiculous pap that this charlatan is spouting…
The Quakers Must be Quaking About Now…
February 27, 2006
William Penn must be crying in his oatmeal over this hare-brained one:
Guilford College considering gender-blind housing proposal
Guilford College is a Quaker school in Greensboro, NC. As if co-ed dormitories weren’t fertile-enough breeding grounds for hijinks, now you might soon be able to send your kid to Guilford and having her matched up in a dorm room with some throbbing-hormoned hornhound of a 19-year-old.
Once again, “progressive” thought, liberalism, produces an answer that takes us a step or three closer to the animals that liberals and Darwinist fundamentalists believe are, after all, our forefathers. We teach kids that they’re animals; it shouldn’t shock us when they believe us and act like it…
Wonder if there is one person in the administration at Guilford who will have any guts whatsoever to stand up and say,
“What, have you people totally lost your minds???”
Tip of the 7-7 in the ACC Wahoos cap to the Dawn Treader—a fellow Roanoker!!!—for this one.
The 5 Most Important Religious Trends of 2005
February 27, 2006
This article is a bit dated (month and a half), but it’s a pretty interesting read, an analysis of “religious” trends in our country:
Doonesbury on Intelligent Design
February 27, 2006
Garry Trudeau weighs in—predictably missing the point—on the Intelligent Design movement:
Once You Let Reason Bump Up Against Faith
Hey, Garry, your beloved reason is what leads me to faith—just as it leads you to faith as well. The question is, is the object of your faith…reasonable?
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
