I mean seriously, old famous people don’t know how to gracefully exit this scene thes days.  Its like she realized we were forgetting her so she told somebody about this so we wouldn’t forget her.  I (and many other people) don’t care she slept with a married senator.  Men in positions of power sleep with women under them all the time.  Doesn’t make it right, but also doesn’t mean I (or we) have to know about this specific case of infadelity.  Frankly I don’t care if she slept with JFK, Bush Sr., and Clinton.  Who she sleeps with is her deal and who they sleep with is their deal.  As long as they represent the voters how the voters want to be represented, why should we care who they slept with? Read more

So I was helping my girlfriend with a paper on Religion last night and we were discussing Wicca and the 1986 court case came up.  The one that officially recognized Wicca as a religion.  According to the case, a prisoner was charging that he was being discriminated against because he was (is) Wiccan.  He was not allowed to (as a prisoner) obtain the items needed to practice his religion.  Now I wonder if this would fly today.  I mean think about it, imagine a Catholic was told he couldn’t have a bible in jail, or a Muslim could not have the Qur’an or a floor covering for prayer, or one of the other major religions being denied what is required to practice actively.  All hell would break loose.  I don’t mean to say if some guy says he needs a knife or a gun to actively practice his religion in jail that we should give it to him.  But put him in a padded room and let him go at it.  I mean he’ll get tired out eventually.  But in all seriousness, I don’t want to think of the consequences.  I was speaking to one of my friends about it and they made an off color comment to the effect of, if we took away a muslims right to practice in jail that they’d blow something else up.  Read more