The confluence of two flavors.

[digitaldiscipline]

First, as initially heard on NPR this morning, and expounded on by Salon, Southern Baptists Plan Exit Strategy From Schools.

Rather than go on at great, vitriolic length about the questionable judgement going into this recommendation on the part of Messers Shortt and Moran (and presumably their families), I have a very convenient visual shorthand, courtesy of xany_hellion:



Sometimes it really -is- worth a thousand words.

Comments

[xany.livejournal.com]

...and for your amusement (especially given the context) here's the original pic:

[etcet.livejournal.com]

handsome devil, isn't he?

[kungfugimp.livejournal.com]

He's a closet mullet. You just know that headwrap is hiding it.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

there's no doubt in my mind. and he's probably thinning on top and in denial about it... which is why my own haircuts are getting progressively shorter - anything longer than an inch a) stands up funny and b) looks like i'm trying to hide the obvious.

[fenixinthedark.livejournal.com]

He did not perhaps mean Roger Moran, one of the subjects of the article? No... I know not, but sometimes you just have to reach a little further to try to find some kernel amongst the chaff.

[draxzaster.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the uproar a few years back about the kids in FL failing the FCAT, and therefore not graduating from high school. One of the protestors of the FCAT (presumably a failure) had a sign that read: "Band the FCAT."

[dogsbody01.livejournal.com]

Regarding the Southern Baptists, truer words have never been spoken.Or posted on a picket!