News You Can Use

• In what one middle-school teacher charmingly calls "a bit of do-it-yourself, against-the-grain activism," some high-school students in Edmond took it upon themselves to rid some neighborhoods of Rick Santorum yard signs.
• Do parents know best? That's the question I ask in the Edmond Sun.
• "Students and faculty at Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics are working to start a campus group for atheists, agnostics, nontheists, humanists, skeptics, freethinkers, and other students who do not believe in a god or gods."
• Condoleezza Rice was homeschooled during part of her childhood.
• Why would God reach down his hand and drag tornadoes across rural America?
• One lefty WaPo writer, who apparently hasn't talked to any demographers lately, says conservatives have, "as we all know, considerable trouble with any kind of sex."
• Apparently anti-religious hate speech is acceptable now, because ABC has a new show called GCB, based on the book Good Christian Bitches. Just for kicks, try to imagine ABC airing a similar show about Muslims.
• The 26 happiest animals in the world.
• The third volume in my friend David Deming's history of science will be published this summer: