The Education Wonks: “The Passage” As A New Literary Art Form
Wait a minute, kids aren’t reading entire novels in school? Only passages? In order to do well on standardized testing? Surely this isn’t true and if it is, it’s the exception and not the rule.
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National Garden Month :: Free Poster Giveaway
OK so the poster is nice, but what about the free seeds! We never seem to have enough seeds to plant. I hope they arrive soon!
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Ancarett’s Abode – Not our fault
My pal, a goddess of a woman, seems to be riled up about Maureen Dowd and her “female historians and novelists”. Monolithic? Come on, goddess. Some women, historians, novelists and others, have been proclaiming this notiion of a Merovingian line. It makes for a good story, just as good as any other story of Biblical nature.
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rawstyle.com: Balance Toilet Seat (Standard Size)
I found these via Hestia Homeschool for Wild Women – and I love them. I really think M would love to paint toilet seats, it’s right up her alley – so to speak. I wonder just how difficult it is to prepare them for the paint and stuff.
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retroCRUSH: Deadly Toys of Days Gone By
How many of these did you own? We had ’em all and still have a few of them around here. I liked lawn darts. I miss lawn darts. I want REAL lawn darts!
May it fall with sulphurous fury on those who dispatch an administrative minion to a busy neighborhood coffee shop crowded with regulars dropping by for their efficiently-produced latte, 8:30-ish in the morning, and instruct said minion to fetch back eleven assorted coffee drinks, each one subtly-underspecified and requiring extended barista dialogue, and finally to pay with with a credit card.
— Worse yet the idiot who orders 50 coffee drinks from Starbucks, by phone, to be taken to work (which is 30 miles from said Starbucks) and tips badly (if at all).
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Bill would make libraries tell what kids read: “Librarians and civil libertarians joined forces Thursday to condemn legislation that would force public libraries in Maine to tell parents what books their children have checked out”
No, no, no! Scarey business!
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