Officials Weigh Booing Ban at High School Games: Good/Bad Idea?

ABC News: Officials Weigh Booing Ban at High School Games

Is it okay to express ones self at all times, regardless of the venue? Well, maybe not all venues, but I think it’s certainly okay to boo at a high school game!

Listen, the kids are going to get booed at some point or other. If they pursue college ball, then they are definitely going to get booed. If they decide to go on to the professional level, they will most definitely get booed. It’s just part of sports. If you can’t handle the boos, then I’m afraid you don’t need to be playing the game. That’s first of all: second of all, the schools do not need to be banning the boos. Booing is our way, as spectators, to express our disgust with a ref’s call or a player’s behavior. What should we do? File a protest during the middle of the game to express our anger? No, thanks.

Keep the booing. It’s part of sports.

Tired of Coulter

For many outside of the political world, the name of Ann Coulter may fall on deaf ears. However, it shouldn’t. She’s the brazen, tough-acting, bigger-than-life, arrogant, stuck-up conservative author and speaker. She’s had a lot mean things to say (for one, accusing the widows of 9/11 families of exploiting their husbands’ deaths for fame-gain), and is in the headlines again for her antics. This time, she’s attacking Democratic presidential hopeful, John Edwards.

I don’t care for Edwards politically, either. I don’t think his ideas are coherent, and I believe that was proven in the 2004 campaign. But Coulter’s recent remarks are just ridiculous. She has called him a “faggot.” Not only is that childish but completely absurd and unnecessary. Ann Coulter has done nothing but continue to give Republicans a black-eye. For those Dems and Independents who think conservatives are narrow-minded, arrogant, idiots, she does a great job proving their perceptions to be correct. Luckily I know many conservative Republicans who are far from Coulter’s ideology…but woe to those who aren’t as fortunate.

One Scholarly Look at Jesus Tomb

Dr. Deidre Good is currently speaking rationally about the Jesus Tomb debate raging in Christianity right now. She is speaking at St. John’s Episcopal in N.Y. today and part of her discussion will be on this very topic. She makes some very good points about the implausibility (good choice of words) of this whole issue. Also, worthy of note, is her attention to the fact that even if it were proven to be true, it is not the end-all of the Christian faith. I think that’s a message that should be heard more.

[HT to: EpiScope]