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Day of Prayer

TooMuchSexy.blog and NSLog both have good entries on the latest in stupid national law. Just because a law doesn't mention or give preferential treatment to a particular religion doesn't mean it passes the constitutional test*. The right to choose no religion and no god is also protected, and this law obviously fails. How long do you think before they bring up moment of silence (i.e. prayer) in schools again? They are already trying to pass a partial birth abortion ban.

*Disclaimer - This is obviously my interpretation of the constitution and not necessarily the current Supreme Court's.

Road to Perdition

As in most Fridays, we stayed in tonight and watched a movie. Road to Perdition turned out to be very good.

Old Friends

A received a phone call from my friend Matt last night as I was heading out the door. I have known Matt since the third grade (he claims it was the second) and although I don't talk to him often and see him even less, he is still one of my best friends. I can talk to him about things that my current friends don't care about, cars. Motor-vehicles in general actually. It was great to talk to someone about my bike who actually has one too. I'm going to try and ride my bike up to Fond du Lac after my MSF class. Telling Matt that I wasn't sure if I could make it all the way to FDL he promptly volunteered to meet me in Milwaukee with his trailer. Of course Matt has a trailer, and I'm sure a big truck to pull it.

I haven't seen Matt since my trip in November, which was the first time I had seen him in two years. I'm going to make an effort to see him and JD more often. I figure we can do a ride and camp thing. Camping in Wisconsin is great.

Experimental

I went to see Plaid at the Metro last night. I was a little disappointed. The opening DJ was great, but everything after that was just your standard dance tracks. It was very much a post-raver crowd. Plaid stuff is normally pretty experimental, the must have been playing to the crowd. Yet another lesson...I still hate shows.