Amid the ongoing onslaught of Christmas music and—worse—Christmas shoppers, I have realized that this season just isn’t fun anymore. In fact, in many ways, it’s gotten downright unpleasant.
Student Asked to Change Out of Kilt . . . [Updated]
Schools have a limited authority to infringe upon a student’s free speech/expression rights, but this is just idiotic—especially in a [supposedly] enlightened, multicultural society like our own. Students from many cultures are permitted to wear traditional dress in our schools (provided they cover everything), so why not a student of Scottish descent?
Christmas Busyness; Cingular Good So Far; Car Stuff
Just when things calmed down enough for the posting to get slightly more regular, all of the Christmas madness finally hit :-). This past weekend Melissa and I had an evening thing at church, this coming weekend is both the Plexus Winter Retreat and my sister’s return from England, then Wes flies in next week, then Melissa and I head to SoVa. . . . So much to do, so little time.
‘Do Some Soul Searching’
The Wall St. Journal today published the transcript from a speech that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivered on Monday at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. I hope you’ll give it a serious read.
Cingularly Experimental
Melissa and I have been thinking/planning a switch to Cingular Wireless (we are currently using Verizon) for an improved selection of phones, better data options, and rollover minutes—especially now that we can transfer our numbers between carriers. Our Verizon contracts are up early next year (I still have to look up exactly when), but we didn’t want to make the switch without some serious testing.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.