Odds and ends, 5/29/07

If you want to read a different take on the conversation going on about illegal immigration, go to www.ejectejecteject.com and read the first item.


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There's an attractive high school pole vaulter in California who has attracted a lot of unwanted attention on the Internet. Things like this is why I try to monitor my kids' Internet usage. I don't always succeed, but I try.

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My mother used to say that some people have more money than they have sense. Here's someone who has more time and money than she knows how to use productively:

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A suburban Atlanta mother who believes the best-selling Harry Potter books promote witchcraft said Tuesday she may take her quest to ban the writings from her county schools to federal court after a state judge rejected her latest effort.

Laura Mallory, who said two of her four children attend public schools in Gwinnett County, told reporters it may be time to rethink her arguments with the help of an attorney.

“I maybe need a whole new case from the ground up,” said Mallory, who was not represented by an attorney at the hearing.Her comments came after Superior Court Judge Ronnie Batchelor said evidence previously presented by Gwinnett County school officials supported their decision not to remove the books from school libraries.

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