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...liked the spirit of the more casual tailgates, but the structure we’re trying to put in place with more organizational overhead could actually make for a smoother tailgate,” he said...
...said it's great publicity for her endeavors. And Ewing sees her point. "It's hard not to respect people who have deep passions," she says. Neither she nor Grady can entirely fathom why the Evangelicals feel so profoundly threatened in a largely tolerant U.S. They speculate that casual, unthinking secularism, represented by everything from the TV schedule to Wal-Mart's groaning shelves, makes these Evangelicals feel encircled and unheeded despite their relative prosperity. The directors also wonder, as Grady puts it, "if these parents can hold back the tide of natural rebellion and cultural engulfment" that will threaten...
...casual passerby might have asked, were there 30,128 pumpkins and over 100,000 people in Boston Common last Saturday? Boston wasn’t smashing pumpkins—sorry Billy Corgan fans—but world records, as thousands of locals joined forces at the third annual “Life is good Pumpkin Festival” to shatter the Guinness World Record for most pumpkins lit in the same place at the same time. Boston’s fierce competitor for the pumpkin champ title, Keene, N.H., has proudly bled orange since lighting a record 28,952 jack...
...worried about, though, is the possibility of disciplinary consequences for their traditional actions. Is everyone in on the joke though? One very public tradition pursuant, Anne-Marie Zapf-Belanger ’09, infamously (and successfully!) posted on Craigslist’s “Casual Encounters” section last year in search of a sex-in-the-stacks co-conspirator. In her post, she mentioned that she had already completed the other two traditions and was trying to fulfill the trio before finishing her freshman year. She didn’t research the potential ramifications of her actions...
...stands in contrast to the embarrassing New York high court ruling from earlier this year. A skein of twisted reasoning, that 4-2 decision went against marriage equality. In an unpersuasive bit of reverse bigotry, the New York court said that because straight relationships ?are all too often casual or temporary? and can lead to children born out of wedlock, the state needed to help straights by maintaining an exclusive, all-heterosexual club called marriage. Straight people used to be obsessed with the dangers of gay bathhouses; I guess sports bars and hetero dating sites are now the real dangers...