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We spent the day at the Festival for the Eno River, despite the heat; and Paperhand Puppet Intervention was having a parade. When I was ambling around I heard them calling asking people to join in the parade; what I discovered, soon, was that they actually meant join in the parade, complete with putting on a mask or carrying around a stick with a big animal painted on it. And they needed another person for the big long Chinese dragon.
So I got to be a big long Chinese dragon! Or the tail end of one, at any rate.
Which was awesome at first, and continued to be awesome even though I just about passed out from the heat by the time it was over.
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As a feel-good patriotic gesture, the NC House has passed a bill that would require the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms. Technically--according to the wording of the bill--what is required is for time to be scheduled for the Pledge of Allegiance, rather than for individual students to recite the pledge, but I've seen teachers badly misinterpret things often enough to be wary; when's the first kid who refuses to recite the pledge going to get hauled up for discipline, or told that he has to, it's the law?
So I got to be a big long Chinese dragon! Or the tail end of one, at any rate.
Which was awesome at first, and continued to be awesome even though I just about passed out from the heat by the time it was over.
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As a feel-good patriotic gesture, the NC House has passed a bill that would require the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms. Technically--according to the wording of the bill--what is required is for time to be scheduled for the Pledge of Allegiance, rather than for individual students to recite the pledge, but I've seen teachers badly misinterpret things often enough to be wary; when's the first kid who refuses to recite the pledge going to get hauled up for discipline, or told that he has to, it's the law?