Getting into a good college is so important.

President Obama and his administration is asking a federal court to allow colleges to continue to be “race-conscious.”  Colleges can not participate in “racial balancing” but they can allow race to play a factor in bringing minorities into a college.  Here is the link:  Link

Do you think colleges should allow race to factor into who gets in to the college?

Over the last five years, I have had about 20 people contact me after I posted about them from a news article.  These people sometimes come from google searches.

For example, a few people contacted me from the Virginia Tech school shooting that were on campus at the time of the shooting.  I had made a sarcastic remark about the shooting in a post.  (Apparently people are sensitive shortly after being shot at).

I had a guy contact me after being arrested for having sex with some animal.  I think it was a horse.  According to him, the news article had characterized the situation unfairly.  

I just received a friend request on Facebook from the woman who was the 17 year old that was dating a 42 year old from the article I posted the other day.  She is older now.  (I hope she doesn’t think I am as old as the photo in my profile pic).

I am not sure I feel guilt very often but I sometimes feel bad about the things I have said in a post when the people go to read them.  It isn’t just what I say but sometimes the comments are a little harsh as I am sure they were in the post about the 17 year old girl dating the 42 year old man.  I also felt bad when I posted a photo of an overweight woman and made some sort of sarcastic remark about the woman.  Her daughter contacted me.  (Her daughter was kind of hot.  I am sure me telling her that made up for what I said about her mother).

The only time I really felt guilt about something I posted was when I thought someone had faked his death and made fun of it and then found out that the person was in fact dead. 

Have you ever felt guilt about something you posted?

Help me settle an issue with a friend.

Would you describe this as a face or a back massager?
                                   
                                      

A city official in Iowa announced to city employees that Good Friday would now be called “Spring Holiday.”

Apparently this has upset a few people.  Here is the link:  Link

Do you think Good Friday should be renamed “Spring Holiday?”

I was just reading an article about a 17 year old girl who fell in love with a 42-year-old man.  It was titled, “25-Year Age Difference:  Can it Work?”

The man was married.  She felt that they were lying and doing something that broke the “seventh Commandment.”  She was 18 before they did anything physical. 

In the article she mentioned it bothered her that people said her feelings were a crush, or “say that I was just falling for him because I was desperate for male attention.”  Here is the link:  Link

25-year old difference:  Can it work?

Here is the link:  Link

If the Pope allowed a priest to remain a priest after he molested multiple boys, should the Pope resign?

A ten-day-old baby was denied health insurance.  The baby was born with a congenital heart defect.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas denied health insurance for the newborn baby because he has a “preexisting” condition.  The parents don’t think it should be labeled as a “preexisting condition” because the baby was just born.  Here is the link:  Link

If a baby is born with a congenital heart defect, should it count as a preexisting condition?

A parent is upset because her 15-year-old daughter received an abortion with the assistance of her high school nurse.

He daughter was given a pregnancy test at the school clinic.  She was informed by the nurse that she could get an abortion without her parent’s knowledge.

Someone called a taxi for her daughter and then the mother is saying that Planned Parenthood discouraged the girl from telling her parents.  Here is the link:  Link

According to the article, a “girl of any age can get an abortion without her parent’s being notified.

Is 15 too young to get an abortion without parental consent?
                                                            
                                                             

Vice President Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb on live television.

He told President Obama on the passage of the health care bill, “This is a big f***ing deal.”  Here is the link:  Link

I think most of us have dropped a curse word at an inappropriate moment.  The story reminded me of the first time I cursed in front of my mother.  It slipped out of my mouth.

Have you ever cursed in front of your parents?

What do you find more adorable?

This baby:

Or those who believe the government can give everyone health care without raising taxes while decreasing the federal deficit?