More victim society

WAXAHACHIE — Waxahachie ISD officials and the high school senior at the center of a yearbook controversy have announced an agreement they hope will resolve the issue.

Administrators wrote a two-page letter apologizing to Shadoyia Jones for a mistake in which a photo caption in the 2004-2005 Waxahachie High School yearbook identified her simply as "Black Girl."

The caption sparked outrage in the community, and district officials quickly took action. The yearbook section that contained the photo was reprinted, and all Waxahachie High students were able to get the section replaced at school.

District officials also admitted that the yearbook's editors made a serious error.

"We will continue to investigate this matter," said Waxahachie superintendent James Wilcox. "Everything we've had up to this point said it was an incident of poor judgment."

Jones, who was accompanied at Wednesday morning's news conference by her mother and members of the Waxahachie-area NAACP chapter, said she was ready to put the matter to rest.

"I don't want this to interrupt my special day, and I just want everyone to be peaceful about this whole situation," Jones said Wednesday. "I don't want any confrontations; I just want my graduation to go smoothly."

Administrators also said they would revamp the district's policies about editing of the yearbook; faculty members will examine the yearbook more closely.

Graduation ceremonies will be held Friday.

An honest mistake, and the school is held hostage. I wonder what part was wrong, what part ofit she had a problem with? Was it "black"? OR "girl"?
So, now the school had to print 1000 copies of the insert page, and ask students to bring in their yearbooks to have the page replaced. If I was a student, I'd tell them to get bent.
And, according to news reports, the NAACP is considering 'legal action'. LEGAL ACTION!?!?!?! For what? A simple mistake? That's what yearbooks do. They use something to describe the student until they can fill in the name. Hell, maybe no one knew how to spell her name.
This is ridiculous.

Super-hero movies galore!

Not only have we had great comic movies like Constantine, Hellboy, and Sin City, Not to mention the upcoming Fantastic Four, Batman Begins, and Superman Returns.
But there is a great new movie coming soon! Sky High!!
Imagine that the world's greatest superheroes have kids. Sky High is where the kids go to school. They have tests to determine whether they are heroes of sidekicks, cliques, etc. It looks like a big, fun movie. Check out the trailer at the link above.

Today was an average day.

In a perfect world...

I have heard it said that if you are crazy, you probably aren't aware of it..
So, if you don't know that you're an absoulte dolt, you just might be.
Story:
I am on the street about to make a right hand turn. there is a car to my left in the left turn position. As I prepare to go, this car turns to the right, right in front of me! So, restraining at least 2 of my fingers, I give a little toot on the horn, just to say, "hey, look out, I'm over here." What does the car do? they stop in the road! I've pulled out and at first this car is at a complete stop. Then it proceeds to drive down the center of a 2 lane road. they finally move to the right when they notice a third car coming up behind them, so I move to get in behind this new car so I can go about my evening. Of course the other car swerves over and cuts me off. so I keep a respectable distance, in regards to their almost constant brake lights, and we come to the major intersction where I end up behind the car. I'm feeling like playing now, so I take my camera phone and snap a quick picture of the back of their car, The light is all wrong, you probably can't even tell what color the car is, but I see a girl lean out of the driver's door yelling stuff backj at me. My windows are up, and the music is loud, so, of course I cant hear a damn thing. I cup my hand over my ear as if to say, "I'm sorry, I can't hear you, but I am incredibly interested in what you are saying." So, she continues yelling.
The light finally turns green, and we turn, but she pulls into the gas station, I'm sure hoping I follow. No go, I have more important things to do than to get in a yelling match with an idiot at a Chevron Station.
I see stupid stuff on the road daily. Do people not know they are being idiots, or do they not care?

CAPE! over for the year.

The big Zeus Comics event yesterday has ended. The whole day was great! I have never been more tired, but in a good way. I met some cool people, hung out with some people I never got a chance to know before, and got some cool stuff.
Can't wait for next year's CAPE!