Hypocrites

I just can't stand intolerant people.


^ It was a joke. I'm tolerant of most people.  They know who they are.

Thoughts on Teaching

So after nine years of teaching art in elementary school, these are some things I have learned:

1. Be Kind
2. Be Clear
3. Be Flexible
4. We don't know everything
5. Prioritize people over paperwork
6. Slow down, breathe and live in the now
7. Less lip service, more active listening
8. Be Consistent
9. Maintain a sense of humor and don't ever lose your cool.

"Who are you people and where's my horse?"  George Carlin

Noise pollution

"Ask me about my vow of silence."  bumper sticker

I also like this quote from Six Feet Under:
"Future is just a f**king concept that we use to avoid being alive today."- Brenda

America's Addiction to Belief

The Humanist - a magazine of critical inquiry and social concern

Guilty as charged

Read between the lines, note what the man didn't say.  "I'm not a perfect man", that's code for admitting guilt to something wrong that you did. Beware of hypocrites.

Pastor, Minister, Reverend, Preacher or Bishop, whoever you are, it's OK to come out of the closet, man.  Gays are people, too. They can get married, have children, and even be a leader of a megachurch in a major US city with thousands of followers.  Even in the Bible belt South.  Imagine that.

Pledge

Pledge to America, Plague on America
(aka recycling of the old contract on America)

Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered

10 Songs

List 10 songs you can sing every word of.

1. Stairway to Heaven
2. My Girl
3. Blue Monday
4. My Way
5. Crazy
6. Always on my mind
7. Where is my mind?
8. American Pie
9. Hotel California
10. Mad World

Freedom

Pay your Taxes, because Freedom is not free! *
*Actually, it is absolutely free, no charge.

Fall Break

Clueless, Mindless, Fearless and Reckless 
Theme for this week's Fall Break w/ no school.
First day of Fall is 2 days from now, it's currently 95 degrees outside.  
What GLOBAL WARMING chu talkin' 'bout Willis?

Upcoming Races

• ATC Cartersville 10K, 8 AM, Saturday, October 2nd
• Haunted Hustle Cross Country 5K, Canton, 9 AM, October 23
• Run Around the Rock 5M/ 10M, Stone Mountain, 8 AM, November 6
• Gobble Jog 5K, Marietta Square, 8 AM, Thanksgiving November 25
• ATC Cross country 5K, 9 AM, Milton High School, December 4
• Resolution Run 5K, Kennesaw, Saturday, January 1, 2011

" When I turned 40, I had to choose a midlife crisis.  I decided running the Chicago Marathon would be less destructive than a sports car or a mistress."  Peter Sagal, host of NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

Tea Party of One

C'mon now, who hasn't dabbled into Witchcraft?

Old time religion

"Science flies men to the moon. Religion flies planes into buildings."  Author unknown 

More New Rules

1. There's no such thing as perfection.
2. Make room for negotiation.
3. Don't be too hard on yourself.
4. There is no shortcut in life.
5. You are what you think.

Signs in the Bible Belt

Saw this sign a block from a church on Milford Church Road in Cobb County, Georgia

"Kindness Over Genius" Spoken Word Video

KOG 3 from Kelly Tsai on Vimeo.

A Poem in honor of people who are Workaholics and Perfectionists

Freethought of the Day

Freethought of the Day

• Aren't Tea Parties for little girls?  Remember Alice in Wonderland?

Sunday AKA Lesson plans Day

• Imagine No Religion
• Sleep In On Sundays
• Beware of Dogma
• In Reason We Trust
• Heathen's Greetings
• The above and many more are from actual billboards going up across the country, and most surprisingly here in the South, around the metro Atlanta area.  There was even an article in yesterday's  Atlanta Journal-Constitution paper.  Will post a link soon when I find it.  Freedom From Religion Foundation  Protecting the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church
• GOP= Greed Over People

John Lennon - Imagine

Imagine there's no Heaven 
It's easy if you try 
No hell below us 
Above us only sky 
Imagine all the people 
Living for today 

Imagine there's no countries 
It isn't hard to do 
Nothing to kill or die for 
And no religion too 
Imagine all the people 
Living life in peace 

You may say that I'm a dreamer 
But I'm not the only one 
I hope someday you'll join us 
And the world will be as one 

Imagine no possessions 
I wonder if you can 
No need for greed or hunger 
A brotherhood of man 
Imagine all the people 
Sharing all the world 

You may say that I'm a dreamer 
But I'm not the only one 
I hope someday you'll join us 
And the world will live as one 

• Here's my one thought for this September 11:  

      Onwards and upwards.  Continue to live your life normally, or the terrorists would have won.

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Burn, Baby, Burn! | MichaelMoore.com

Got the Quran on the Kindle.  Burn this Mofo!  Burn the Bible and the Flag too while you're at it.  It's a free country.  Actually burning the flag is the proper way to dispose of an old flag, so what's the big friggin' deal?

Say Hello to my little Imaginary Friend

Proselytize

• convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.
• advocate or promote (a belief or course of action).

Either way, I believe it was inappropriate, manipulative and offensive to a lot of people who work in the government or the public school systems.  Now I could care less what religion you belong to, I have friends and relatives who are Christians, Buddhists, Jewish, Hindi, Muslim, Wiccan, Pagan, atheists, and agnostics.  But what I do care is how you conduct yourself and do you force your faith down someone else's throat.  Does the concept of separation of church and state mean anything to anyone any more?  Or is it separation of church and brain?  And to make matter worse, it was disguised as "Character Education".  "He" is a friend indeed, an imaginary friend up in the sky who's watching and listening to  everything you do and say.  How creepy!  And if there's a god, he's not doing a very good job right now.  Please count me in as a non-believer, skeptic, agnostic, heathen or whatever.

To quote George Carlin, "the only good thing that ever came out of religion was the music."

Funny Times

The Education of a Vietnamese-American Writer

The Education of a Vietnamese-American Writer - New America Media
Andrew Lam

Madonna - Holiday (Re-Invention Tour Live)

HAPPY LABOR DAY &  RE-INVENT YOURSELF!

Labor Day weekend

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."   Goethe 

• Today I tried running again, everything was fine and dandy for the first ten minutes or so. I even warmed up by walking about 6 minutes on the sidewalks.  A mile and a half into the run, there came that tighten sored lower calf muscle.  Had to slow down and eventually walked it off the rest of the way back.  I felt out of shape and struggled to breathe after a mile just before the lower calf tighten up. This injury thing is annoying.  If anything good comes out of it, it would be that I'd have to adapt my running style to a more midfoot landing as opposed to mostly heel-landing.  I know I have to shorten my strides, relax the shoulders and upper body even more, bend the knees slightly.  Run lighter, land softer and take shorter strides. Shuffle shuffle shuffle.