I. Stand. Corrected.

Timothy Mason reminds us that Mr. Lunt's ode to His Cheeseburger is not, strictly speaking, a Silly Song.

I do agree with him (and Tim Drake):

Dance of the Cucumber. Best. Silly. Song. Ever.

This is indisputably the True (Veggie Tales) Faith.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 06/27/02 07:29:03 PM
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Hooray for Mr. Lunt!

The apostasy of Mark Shea and Peter Vere from the True (Veggie Tales) Faith is very distressing.

Happily, Tim Drake has not abandoned the True (Veggie Tales) Faith, and embraces the undeniable fact that Mr. Lunt's ode to the cheeseburger is the greatest "laugh-out-loud hilarious" Silly Song.

Amen.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 06/27/02 02:34:01 PM
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The Infamous Unconstitutional Prayer

Jonah Goldberg blogged yesterday a reference to one of his columns on School Choice & the Founding Fathers:

Among educated folks, there is perhaps no issue that makes people say silly things more than the establishment clause of the First Amendment (besides, of course, Bill Clinton's pants). The current myth — one most Americans seem to believe — is that the Founding Fathers did not want American public institutions to be stained in anyway by the muck of religion. Some clever liberals will even quote some bit of Jeffersonian twaddle as if it represented the thinking of all the founders — when in reality it probably only represented what Jefferson was thinking between breakfast and lunch on a hot Tuesday in July. A Know-Nothing candidate for Congress once commented that Jefferson's statements can be employed "every which-a-way; he writ so much."

The prevalence of this myth is not entirely the fault of the American people; the Supreme Court has helped by creating a huge conceptual mess. In 1962 the Court ruled that a New York City public school prayer was unconstitutional.

This is the whole, free-society-threatening shebang: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country." Man, it's amazing we didn't have Episcopalian mullahs shouting morning prayers in their tennis shirts and khakis from every rooftop with that kind of religious tyranny running unchecked in the land.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 06/27/02 10:24:01 AM
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