Crackpots have their day in court and get their patooties handed to them.

Damn straight. Gimme that judge any day, who by the way, is a Republican and a churchgoer—not all of em are nutjobs, folks!

There’s something in the article that puzzles me, some guy named William Buckingham, who supported the ID policy, had this to say: “I’m still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there’s a separation of church and state,” he said. “We didn’t lose; we were robbed.”
Um…..
The Establishment Clause? I dunno, back me up here or not folks but isn’t THAT what’s in the Constitution?

This isn’t in the article I posted above, but is another excerpt from Judge John Jones’ ruling:
“Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy."

Yeah, so what if occasionally I have liberal leanings—the wind blows in more than one direction. :-P

Failure

     So, the question of the day is “what is wrong with me.” After a horrible semester of avoidance and malaise, it has come down to the very real possibility of me failing two classes. The problem I have with this is twofold. 1) My pride. I have a lot of it, and I’ve never done something so STUPID as to let myself get into this situation. 2) I won’t graduate on time. Granted, many people don’t graduate on time, and I did add this second major at the last minute….but the very idea of taking an extra semester because I FAILED is just…so…horrifying to me. And it is ALL my fault. I need to figure out the root of the problem whether its depression or whatever because all I know is that this is not characteristic of me, and it really sucks. My parents have been cool…after initially being a little weird, Mom has been much better and has made me feel better. Dad as well, but I don’t know how to tell him this. He won’t be mad, he’ll wonder what’s wrong, what can he do, what can I do…and at the moment I don’t know and I don’t really want to hash it out with him.. Ugh. I just want it all to go away, I think that’s the biggest problem.
     Well, so I don’t fail the rest of my classes I better get to work. I have another paper to do tonight…and I need to get reading. Sigh.

One thing more. Today I was supposed to give a presentation, on a date that I VERIFIED with my teacher (one who told me she “doesn’t see how I’ll pass”) and I get there and two other girls are doing the presentation…and I’m sitting there with my computer and my notes and everything…. I was so mad. And afterwards she says that she’ll let me present on Friday……..I”ll have to repeat what the other people said! I don’t know what to do. She said I need to talk to the French advisor, a very nice lady. But how do you plead your case when it pretty much boils down to depression/irresponsibility/malaise? I wish I could win the lottery and move to France.