In Saturdays paper (Wisconsin State Journal), on the Your Opinion page, the following:

Respect Passover

April 18 was Pizza Hut day at our schools. It was also the sixth day of Passover, which means we are forbidden to eat grains, oats and any leavened products, including pizza. Therefore we were unable to enjoy Pizza Hut day, a special lunch offered only once every month. We have written to the schools about this in the past, that during Passover there should not be a Pizza Hut day, but nothing has changed. We respect the customs of all holidays, and feel ours should be respected as well.

Comments?

Here are some thoughts of mine: The writers (looks like a brother and sister team) are school-age kids, so I guess it's not fair to expect them to have a mature viewpoint but this seems to me very much like they are saying "we have to abide by these restrictive religious rules that say we can't eat pizza (among other things) on some days so we don't want you to be able to eat pizza on those days either".

The letter doesn't say so but I suppose they could (probably do) mean switch it to a day that is not during Passover. I don't know... God might be pissed. And what happens if some other people don't like that date? And can you only object on religious grounds or is it anything goes? As you might guess I think it is highly unlikely that "God" is impressed by these man-made dietary restrictions. I think that "He" would be more impressed if you went out and did something nice for somebody or bought pizza or something for some starving kids (in Ethiopia).

"We respect the customs of all holidays (really? ALL holidays? I bet not), and feel ours should be respected as well". So who's not respecting your "holiday"? The people eating pizza? Just because they're not practicing your religion? Suppose my religion says; oh never mind, I have no religion (not in the traditional sense anyway) and I'm beginning to lose any respect for people that do. But I am surrounded by people (a few anyway) that do it right so I guess it is possible. Go figure.

On coast to coast a.m. they're talking about the "Gospel of Judas", perhaps you've heard of it. It was actually discovered in the early 1970s but is just now "coming out". Not surprisingly it seems that many Christians are a bit slow to embrace this "new" gospel. I guess it's upsetting to them to be told that maybe what they learned in Sunday school or wherever is not exactly right. Or even wrong. We'll see how easily they dismiss it, or whether perhaps some of them will accept and even embrace it. More divisions among the faithful? We shall see.

This all reminds me of the numbers in baseball; specifically some records that were modified in light of new information that caused some recounting to be done. Ty Cobb no longer has 4,191 hits, he has 4,189. Hack Wilson's single season record of 190 rbi in a season was increased to 191. Cy Young's win total went from 511 to 509. Or it didn't, depending on your source. Which led to the question being asked at least once (in the letters to the editor in Baseball Digest) "why can't they just leave those numbers alone? Why do they feel the need to "fix" everything?" Gee, I don't know. How about maybe for the sake of accuracy?

Here's another team (offense):

Line: LT Jim Parker, LG Larry Little, C Dwight Stephenson, RG John Hannah, RT Anthony Munoz.

Wides: Don Hutson, Don Maynard

TE: Dave Casper

RB Jim Brown
Blocking FB: Bronko Nagurski

QB: Bart Starr

Maybe they can play that other team.

Next: Deee-fense!

Here's a football team that would be tough to beat(just the offense):

O-line: Left side has Art Shell and Gene Upshaw. Center is Mike Webster. Right side is Jerry Kramer and Forrest Gregg.

Tight end is Mark Chmura.

Wideouts are Paul Warfield and Otis Taylor.

Halfback is Lenny Moore.

Fullback is Jim Taylor.

And the Quarterback....

Number 4 in your program, number 1 in your heart

all the way from Kiln, Mississippi

Mr. Brett Favre

Whatdya think?

I was wrong (see how easy that is George?); they ran my letter in Thursday's paper. My Mom said it was good. My Dad wanted to know what to bring me when he visits me in prison. Ha ha (I think).