Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Canadian parliament passes C-38 - should be in effect by August - marriage will be legal across the country;

Alberta considers dropping recognition of marriage entirely and shifting all residents to Civil Unions;

Today's Family News in Focus TOTALLY IGNORES the Canada marriage story, but DOES cover the Tennessee "gay conversion" camp - linked to earlier. (It all started with this blog entry:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=7428306&blogID=28610354&Mytoken=20050610204542 )

Follow-up on a previous story; a Wiccan couple divorced, both want to raise their son in their faith, but were ordered in the divorce decree not to "expose" their child to their religious beliefs(!) because that might "confuse" him since he goes to a Catholic school - that decree has now been _upheld_ at the next state court level up. An appeal is in process to the Indiana Court of Appeals (both parents vs. the judge);

Focus on the Family calls the end-of-term Ten Commandments decisions "dangerous";

Focus on the Family complains about CDC school survey about sexual activity;

Another Ten Commandments article from FotF - "legal experts at a loss";

FotF article on "threats" to religious liberty - the number one being marriage rights, the mere existence of which he asserts is an affront to their religious liberty; number two is abortion, number three is secularism in culture;

"Christian" groups plan to install 100 Texas-like Ten Commandments displays in cities across the country, in reaction to the recent Supreme Court rulings;

Concerned Women for America blacks the new GBLT-themed television cable channel LOGO as an "assault on children";

Traditional Values Coalition attacks latest Supreme Court decisions as "attack[s] on religious freedom";

Libertarian businessman proposes hotel development at 34 Cilley Hill Road, in Weare, Vermont - the current home of Justice Souter of the United States Supreme Court, author of the recent Kelo v. New London decision.

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not so much angst as nervousness

Got a decent amount of stuff done today, but not as much as I'd wanted. I'm now spending much, much more time than is probably appropriate for the amount of material I've actually put down on email to a research professor at Georgia Tech about wearables stuff. I have deep levels of anti-confidence about this, which makes me feel very strange when trying to approach anyone to talk at all about it, possibly because a lot of it seems very obvious to me, so it must be very simple, and therefore I'm a gobot for not realising that, even though nobody's publishing much about it and the people I talk to about it in CS generally just kind of go "...uh?"

Not that it isn't a lot of work to try to see whether it could work, regardless. But I feel that I'm very late onto this bandwagon even if nobody has really heard of it anyway. So I'm trying to deal with the thoughts of both being late and very, very far behind, while also having ideas that nobody else seems to be talking about, at least not in journals I found.

Plus there's all the "exactly how do I make graduate school work physically, what with most people who care being far away" thing. To wit: AGH.

Stupid hard choices. Here, have a flower picture. ECUs are fun.