New Trommetter Times

Grabbed from my blogmarks.

‘Girls Are Taking Over’ — Nerdiness and the New Gender Gap
The nerd has persisted as a consistent character of high school practically since the invention of group education. We see him with frequency in our own lives, and in pop culture, too. The nerd reliably makes an appearance in every teen-targeted blockbuster, novel or comic. But now, the stereotypically male nerd is almost exclusively female.
No longer is nerdiness — diligence and commitment to school — so derogatory a characteristic. In fact, now, it is socially prized, but just in young women. Male nerds? No more.
()() I’m afraid my daughter might be slipping into this new category of girl geek.

Gore: Show me the (green) money
Ya gotta love it! First, Al Gore fans the flames of global warming fears, then he capitalizes on the predicted upcoming planetary catastrophes by cashing in on it and lecturing others on how to make a financial killing!
()() More green hypocrisy. I guess Gore isn’t a watermelon after all. He sure knows how to work the capitalist system.
Free the Pendleton 8!
Pfc. John Jodka III, Cpl. Trent D. Thomas, Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, Cpl. Marshall Magincalda, Hospitalman 3rd Class Melson Bacos, Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson, Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington and Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. are all men who volunteered to serve their country in Iraq.
Today, and for the last two months, they are in solitary confinement in the brig at Camp Pendleton, shackled during weekend visits with their family members and frequently deprived of their rights as American citizens as they stand charged with premeditated murder of an Iraqi last April.
The evidence against them is based largely – if not exclusively – on the word of the family of the dead man, 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdanya.
‘Black spinster’ label pinned on Condi Rice
While U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been in the Middle East meeting regional alongside Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon, media outlets controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party the past few days have been using racist rhetoric in their reports, referring to the American representative as the “black woman,” “raven,” “colored dark skinned black lady” and “black spinster.”
Replace NC bridge, worry about road later
The U.S. interior secretary says he supports building a bridge over the Oregon Inlet parallel to the existing span and deciding the issue of rerouting the connecting highway later.
“I believe the best way to proceed would be to separate the replacement of the Bonner Bridge, a project whose delay could constitute a clear and present safety issue for all concerned, from the more difficult and less urgent issue of the realignment of the road,” Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne wrote.
()() There are so many things wrong with the logic in this article, I can’t even enumerate all of them. Let’s start with if the road doesn’t connect to the bridge, how are people going to use the bridge? What good does that do?