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My favorite background was SHUT UP WESLEY!
The others had me chuckling, that one was an honest LOL.
random thoughts from vancouver
I have a late call today, so I have some time to write. Yaaaaay. Here's a few things that have been on my mind in the last, oh, 36 hours or so. So that silly thing Paul and Storm and Adam and I did sort of took off, didn't it? I'm thrilled that so many people found it as entertaining and amusing...
Dale McGowan (author of Parenting Beyond Belief) argues that it's an important rite of passage for children - that they learn that adults are not always correct in what they say.
He uses it as a springboard to secularism, but it really applies to anything a child will hear from a person of authority ("This herbal remedy cured my gout!"):
By allowing our children to participate in the Santa myth and find their own way out of it through skeptical inquiry, we give them a priceless opportunity to see a mass cultural illusion first from the inside, then from the outside. A very casual line of post-Santa questioning can lead kids to recognize how completely we all can snow ourselves if the enticements are attractive enough. Such a lesson, viewed from the top of the hill after exiting a belief system under their own power, can gird kids against the best efforts of the evangelists – and far better than secondhand knowledge could ever hope to do.
http://parentingbeyondbelief.com/blog/?p=3507
The Ethics of Santa
Many people teach their small children the myth of Santa Claus: that a magical being who lives at the North Pole brings presents on Christmas Eve. Secondary aspects of the myth are that whether one receives presents is a function of one’s behavior, and that you can communicate with Santa about...
"I believe this revealing story represents Wakefield’s last stand."
I hope you're right.
Wakefield's Last Stand
In an attempt to save what remains of his ramshackle reputation, Andrew Wakefield took to the airwaves tonight in Dateline’s A Dose of Controversy to pitch his long-disproven theory linking autism to the MMR vaccine. For the unaware, Wakefield’s crafted study published in Lancet in the late 1990...
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