04/27/2006
New season of Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List has Griffin ice skating with Johnny Weir. Now that's a triple lutz I can't wait to see. She'll also head to Iraq to entertain the troops.
Lexington, Massachusetts principal Joni Jay, who approved King & King and other gay-related material for instruction in school, is caught in the middle of a culture war as school officials are sued by parents. Jay is standing her ground: ''I think it's right to have books and materials that reflect the children in our school. We're not talking about sex here. We are talking about families." Amen.
The lyrics to Neil Young's "Let's Impeach the President": Let’s impeach the president for lying / And leading our country into war / Abusing all the power that we gave him / And shipping all our money out the door / He’s the man who hired all the criminals / The White House shadows / who hide behind closed doors / And bend the facts to fit with their new stories / Of why we have to send our men to war..."
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Posted by: Mike | Apr 27, 2006 1:14:28 PM
However people feel about King and King book being read in school, and honestly I haven't yet sorted out how I feel about it, I think it was a really bad move to do that now while the state is debating the latest amendment to ban gay marriage. The last thing we need is to rattle the hornets nest of the conservative base, and teaching 7 year olds about two princes kissing does exactly that. A lot of people are upset about this, and it may just push the moderates towards the side that wants to ban gay marriage. Parents are up in arms over this, and will probably result in us losing a lot of allies right when we need them. Not smart.
Posted by: Jake | Apr 27, 2006 2:11:14 PM
Neil Young's song is great! It follows the Dixie Chicks and Pink ("Dear Mr. President')! I wonder if Bush has heard the first two! If, so wait until he hears Young's CD. Wow!
Posted by: Dave | Apr 27, 2006 2:12:17 PM
I grew up in Lexington, attended the schools and my entire extended family (including a niece and nephew in the elementary schools) is still there. It's one of the most highly-educated, urbane and liberal communities in the Country. Truly, is no place safe from the radical whack-jobs?
Posted by: Bob | Apr 27, 2006 3:02:08 PM
Ohhh.. I can't wait for another season af Kathy Griffin! I didn't think the show was being renewed..
Thanks for the heads-up!
Posted by: Greg | Apr 27, 2006 3:12:09 PM
As fun as the phrase "impeach President Bush" sounds, where would that leave us for the next 2.5 years? Hello President Cheney. Yikes - out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Posted by: AMS | Apr 27, 2006 5:05:40 PM
isn't neil young still a canadian ??
what's with the "our" president ?
Posted by: A.J. | Apr 27, 2006 5:13:44 PM
Good for Neil Young. If illegal immigrants can protest that their mistreatment is anti-american then Young as an american icon can write a song about Bush.
Thank you Neil Young. I can't wait to buy the album.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Apr 27, 2006 8:00:34 PM
How can anyone send a personal note of support to Joni Jay? Positive acts such as this need not go unnoticed from our side. People need to know that this matters more to us than to the crazy radical nutjobs...
Posted by: CJ | Apr 27, 2006 9:42:14 PM
You and I are entitled to our opinions, but Neil Young is not an American citizen and this is none of his business. Zero. Nil. Zilch.
Posted by: Jack | Apr 28, 2006 12:53:07 AM
What a Jackass tosser. If Bush charges around the world making his self-imposed mandate that of spreading his own personal brand of freedom and democracy across the entire world then that means that every person living under his rule is entitled to express their due opinion.
Everything Bush does affects the entire world either by default or by his own design. That entitles every person on this planet to speak out in dissention or favour to what he does in the name of America, freedom, democracy, etc.
If you don't like it move to Mars.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Apr 28, 2006 1:19:10 AM
I'm with Chad. Besides, Canada's SORT OF a part of the US.
Not with Greg. I liked Griffin OK as a post-modern Phyllis Diller until I saw her show. What a hateful, Botoxed, pretentious shrew.
Posted by: Jacko | Apr 28, 2006 6:38:40 AM
http://www.hyfntrak.com/neilyoung2/AFF23233/
Listen to it for free then buy it when it comes out.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Apr 28, 2006 8:06:20 PM