It’s back to school season, and you know what that means. Every frigging person you meet that knows you have kids and doesn’t know they are homeschooled will ask if they kids are ready to go back to school. I had a doctor’s appt today and I was asked 4 times. The doctor, nurse, lady […]
No, this is not a post about Republican PR operations. Apparently Cheap Trick has a new album coming out. Surprisingly, the first single sort of rocks. I would never have expected it. Classic rock era Cheap Trick rocked. Hair metal era Cheap Trick was all about the power ballad.
As you know if you follow my Twitter stream, I’ve been reading A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I got interested in the book when there was a flurry of letters to the editor in the local paper about a local high school using it in AP history. Apparently the “America […]
That headline ought to do wonders for my search engine traffic
Basically, SMU is just now figuring out what homeschoolers have known for years, lectures are a lousy way to learn. The dean of the arts program at SMU has removed most of the technology from the classrooms and instead has outfitted the instructors […]
“Even though Judge Sotomayor’s political and judicial philosophy may be different than mine, especially regarding Second Amendments rights, I will vote to confirm her because she is well qualified by experience, temperament, character and intellect to serve. In the same way, it is my hope that my vote now not only will help to confirm […]
She ran up $120,000 in debt getting a 4 year degree from Robert Morris, and now she makes $7.25 an hour plus tips at a bowling alley and has a 10 month old kid. Dad is not mentioned in the article.
If you are wondering, like I was, how exactly you run up that kind […]
I met Daryl at a secret undisclosed location this weekend to continue plotting the world domination we started several years ago. Not surprisingly, plotting world domination involves sitting around the campfire drinking beer. We also brought our oldest sons (in my case only son) to initiate them into the secret cabal. That initiation did […]
Hey, we’ve been Aetna members for only 6 weeks, and already I’ve got a story. Michelle takes a mega Vitamin D supplement once per month. It is prescription only. Because Aetna will only allow the pharmacy to dispense a 30 day supply at a time, she can only get 1 pill at a time for […]
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The comments at Metafilter are pretty good too.
There is way too much here for me to process. However, his overall point goes back to something I realized a few weeks ago. I mentioned it on Facebook, don’t think I ever did a blog post on it though. The reason that for profit health insurance doesn’t […]
Horse slaughter is in the news again. Back in 2007, Congress, urged on by well meaning but misguided activists, outlawed the 3 remaining horse slaughter plants in the US. These were USDA inspected facilities that killed unwanted horses humanely and exported the meat for human consumption. Back then, I stated that it was a bad […]
