Okay, first things first, here is the rest of the post that I typed up and lost last night. LJ has really been pissing me off lately with their java-script removing. Perhaps it is time to look elsewhere.
So you’ve probably already seen this since it was national news, but these people just attended their school’s first integrated prom. When I saw that title, I thought it was going to be a retrospective on some old people who attended their first integrated prom in the 60s. Nope, 2007! I just can’t believe such a thing was still going on.
Speaking of things that are crazy, there is actually a political party in India extolling the rights of the undead. I’m not kidding, go read the article! “We are using elections to highlight the problems of living dead,” said Bihari. “We know we cannot win elections but through election we can sensitize people and officials about this problem.” Remind me not to go to any country that has enough Zombies to have them qualify as a voting block (40,000 according to the article). And who would be crazy enough to lead up the Zombie party? “His reasons for pursuing the cause stem from his own experience. He was declared dead in 1976…”
I don’t know how this works exactly, but according to Peter King on MMQB if you go here and watch the video “What kind of world do you want” by Five for Fighting, $0.49 will be donated to autism research. Not a bad deal, considering it is actually a good song!
Shane Halbach 
Holy cow, after I watched the integrated prom story on the Today show, it took me 20 minutes to gather up my jaw from the floor and reattach it to my face. I couldn’t believe that practice was still going on – and even worse, in my opinion, was that the students had to seek approval to have a regular prom! The students were awesome to step up and make the change, but I think the administration really dropped the ball on that. Stories like that do make me hopeful for the future though 🙂 ~Jen
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