I’m done car shopping, finally. Over the last few weeks we’ve been in and out of 6-8 dealerships. I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of stupid sales tactics. In fact, not one salesperson exhibited any of the pushy, lame behaviors so associated with…
Beautiful she is
Worthy? I am not, no way.
Lucky. That I am.
In other V-Day news, her present, which shipped from Chicago on 2/7, is still not here. It is scheduled to arrive at the local PO this evening, and I guess if I’m lucky it’ll be delivered…
Joanne Jacobs found a Washington Post article on the on the return of that distinctly Southern tradition, the Junior Cotillion, to Loudoun County, VA. Some of the parents might want to consider a PR class themselves, as they don’t come off sounding lik…
A note from a reader inspired this attempt to reassure those dads out there taking the initial homeschool plunge this year. Since dads typically aren’t home all day seeing all the cool stuff going on, it’s only natural that the nattering nabobs of nega…
If this doesn’t get us boku bonus points in the cool parents competition, I don’t know what will.
Breck has wanted a pet snake for at least 2 years. I would have bet on a cold day on hell before I would have bet on Michelle ever agreeing to it. Howev…
Well, he isn’t really in the family, as we are leasing him, we don’t own him. However, Delaney does have virtually unlimited access to the horse, and she’ll be able to show him all season next year, assuming I keep the lease up 😉
Now I need a vehicl…
If you’ve stuck with me this far, you know the origins of the public school system and you understand just how well it has achieved its initial goals. I might go as far to say it’s the most successful conspiracy applied to a mass audience in the histor…
I just can’t do it. I tried, I really tried. I read the first few pages, then I skimmed the rest. I can’t read it in depth. It’s too depressing. It’s also the longest chapter in the book. That alone says enough.
This was the paragraph that pushed me ov…
The real conspirators were ourselves. When we sold our liberty for the promise of automatic security, we became like children in a conspiracy against growing up, sad children who conspire against their own children, consigning them over and over to the…
In this chapter, Gatto talks in the present for the first time. This is not a history lesson anymore, this is what the schools are doing to your kids today. If you’ve been keeping up, none of this will be a surprise.
To understand how this happens, you…
