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Reality Me filed this one under “touchy subjects” and “transportation.” I have to say I was completely caught off guard by the ending.

Our stalwart hero, nearing the end of his work week, is facing several choices, and is an indecisive guy!

Can you help?  Choose your own adventure and see where you get him!

Lets begin!:

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So tonight’s a Friday night, and we have confirmed babysitting possibilities with GAC’s parents.  They’re going to take the kids to the Pellissippi Hot Air Balloon what-have-you if they watch the kids tonight.  Problem is, if I get rid of the kids, what will GAC and I do with our night?  If left to our own devices, we’ll just end up geeking around on the computer and finally feeling frustrated with the lack of opportunity.  There are no interesting movies out, and going out and doing something sounds nice.
On the other hand, MastaG has been itching to go to a football game, and tonight is the Oak Ridge homecoming game.  I don’t really like football, but we’ll see friends there, and thats cool.  Difficulty here is that Pigpen won’t sit through a football game.

Splitting the kids up is a possibility, but I feel bad having Pigpen at the ILs house without his buddy MastaG (although he probably would just watch Dora the whole time and not notice).

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Time to choose!

1) If you want to send the kids off to the inlaws, and do what the hell ever tonight, turn to page 174.

2) If you want to keep the kids, and go to the football game to hang out with friends and tell Pigpen to sit still 3,000,051 times, spin around 3 times and then hit your head on the desk.

3) If you wish you were at a more interesting website, click this link.

4) If you want to split the kids up, with Pigpen going to the ILs, and MastaG coming to the football game, play the GUILT card and move forward 2 spaces.

5) If you want to go to a carribean vacation, send $5000 cash money to:

Take the money and run c/o Atomictumor.com
PO Box 1455715478L
Oak Ridge, 37830

I wonder what the trouble was between this church and their local library? The San Fransico Chronical reports here. Did they get too happy, make too much noise, or did they bring in the snakes? Vipers always freak the librarians out. If the worshipers had been quiet Quakers, would that have made a difference?
The Contra Costa County government says,

“We think a library and a church are different things and should stay different,”

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, stating,

“The county has a legitimate interest in … excluding meeting room activities that may interfere with the library’s primary function as a sanctuary for reading, writing and quiet contemplation,” and in preventing the room from being “transformed into an occasional house of worship,” Judge Richard Paez said in the majority opinion.

But a dissenting opinion brings an important point,

Judge Richard Tallman… in his dissenting opinion. “Separating religious worship from other religious speech inevitably leads to state entanglement in religion” and is beyond the government’s authority, he said.

What it boils down to, according to this article, is be careful how you say your speech (i.e. information) in a public space. There are differences in kinds of speech (information). Be careful, also, of who you gather with in a public space. There are differences in kinds of speech (information) spoken by various groups. It is telling that this has played out in a library where the presentation of information is hallowed. I wonder how effective Government will be as an abiter of information?

Wait a minute Caesar the government has always claimed ultimate authority on what may be said when, where and especially, how.

The much maligned probation department in Anderson County has somehow, over the course of two months, fallen $20,000 in debt, and requiring director, drunken lawyer enthusiast, and political man-about-town Alan Beauchamp to hold his hat in front of the AC commissioners Monday night to ask for this money.
There was one time that I got a $5000 income tax return, and had it all spent in two weeks, which would be about the same overall time frame we’re looking at here.  Maybe the ACPD needed to pay off some credit card bills, get a leg up on the mortgage payments, perhaps a nice getaway to Asheville with its best gal, some new computer parts, something like that?

Anyway, AT2 has more details, including asking the hard questions:

“Question- isn’t the budget put together long before it’s approved in July? So Mr. Lynch’s and Mr. Beauchamp’s decision to dissolve probation was made long before it was announced in September or this too important position was just being cut? Which is it? …

Enough money or in the hole? How can it be that two and half months into the fiscal year and they are running a deficit? Weren’t we told that this program made money? Weren’t we told it was successful?…”

Give em both barrels, AT2.