New post-reboot record of 43m23s, accomplished by starting at 5.1mph and knocking off .1mph after each quarter-mile lap, no cooldown breaks. By the last lap of mile 3 I was trotting along at an easy 4.0mph, and feeling springy enough to bump back up to 5.1 to finish out the last .3 mi.

lap	cum mi	speed
1	.25	5.1 mph
2	.5	5.0
3	.75	4.9
4	1.0	4.8
5	1.25	4.7
6	1.5	4.6
7	1.75	4.5
8	2.0	4.4
9	2.25	4.3
10	2.5	4.2
11	2.75	4.1
12	3.0	4.0
13	3.25	5.1
14	3.30	5.1

Another mass-murder, the most sensationalized since the Batman premiere-night freak-out, this time at an elementary school in Sandy Hook, CT. Mike Huckabee wasted no time catching a media ride to comment that God didn't prevent it because mumble mumble prayer in schools.

Actually there was another theocrat-wannabe who caught my attention even before Schmuckabee - a radio host, Bryan Fischer, who pitched essentially the same spiel for knocking a few more cinderblocks out of the wall of separation between church and state.

However, prayer has never been forbidden in public schools; what's forbidden is administrator-led prayer. Do you want your kid's LDS teacher picking verse from the Book of Mormon? How about the Koran? or the Bhagavad Gītā? Or possibly most insidious of all, a LIBERAL teacher (who belongs to a union), cherry-picking verse that undermines your "prosperity theology".

But Huckabee and Fischer really need to look at their own industry, the "house of God" franchise, before they run their poisonous mouths about prayer in schools. Because where do people go specifically to pray? Why, church of course. By Huckabee logic, there should be no such thing as church massacres. Why, churches shouldn't even need lightning rods.