Scenario: Teacher takes 5th grade class to museum. Museum has nude artwork. One parent fuh-reaks out. School board responds by freaking out.
A woman who’s been a teacher for 28 years is getting grilled because she took her students to the museum where they obviously have art that depicts nudes. What [...]
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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings: “I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory soap: It’s 99.9 percent pure or something…There’s not much needed in the way of change.”
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq: “a series of catastrophes that results in victory.”
Spokeswoman Kathy Walt on Perry’s lapse in ethics: “Gov. Perry has the strongest [...]
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Dinosaur Congressman Ralph Hall learned about “respectacles” from a group of 6 year olds recently. The congressman visited the Primary School in Pittsburg, Texas, ostensibly because he mistook the school cafeteria for the local Luby’s.
While there, he was taught about “respectacles”. Apparently these “respectacles” are a kind of apparatus for the eyes, not [...]
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Have y’all heard of these guys, the Yes Men? They go around impersonating corporate and political leaders, fooling people into believing them.
Yesterday Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin spoke to the Gulf Coast Reconstruction and Hurricane Preparedness Summit. They were followed by someone who claimed to be from the [...]
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Yesterday, we get to listen to Kyra Phillips talk shit about her sister-in-law.
Today, we get this headline:
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Last night 750 people attended a farewell dinner to thank retiring Rep. Bob Hunter for his service. We here at PinkDome would also like to thank Rep. Hunter for being a classy, principled statesman who made us smile. Rep. Hunter, you’ll be missed, we wish you a speedy recovery from your cancer treatment [...]
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Before the recess, Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) filed a bill to create a Google-like search engine to allow commonfolk to easily search federal grants and contracts. The plan is to bring some sort of transparency to the pork barrel system. It flew out of committee, but had a secret [...]
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