The LA Times is reporting on Will Smith’s New Village Academy because of its admittedly close association with Scientology. While I’m happy to at least see a ‘there’s a controversy’ article, the author seems unable to grasp precisely why there’s a controversy, other than that the school claims to be secular yet will use L [...]

Via Talking Points Memo; Joe Lieberman manages to talk out both sides of his mouth in the span of a single sentence: “In fairness we don’t know if Rev. Wright said these inflammatory, anti-American, racial comments every Sunday, but I would not continue to go to a synagogue where that kind of rhetoric was spoken,” [...]

A fairly disturbing church/state issue has been fermenting in a Columbus Ohio grade school, where a popular eighth-grade science teacher John Freshwater has been systematically injecting his religious views and discarding the science curriculum he was hired by the state to teach. Story here. This much isn’t especially odd, as it probably goes on everywhere [...]

I’m suddenly unpressed for time, so I think I’ll turn my interbrowsing into something productive by doling out stories with accompanying thoughts, if thoughts occur. First, let’s visit Chula Vista, San Diego, where the San Diego taxpayers are about to eat $313k (see here for great article by Tanya Mannes of the San Diego Union-Tribune), [...]