Education “r” us
“Today, your child is bringing home their report card to go over with you.” ‘Nuff said. del.icio.us | digg it
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Turvey Topsy world
Mr. Bookworm must be the only parent in the world who, upon finding his children quietly reading together at bedtime, insists they abandon their books and beds, and come watch TV with him. Maybe there’s psychology here — one day, with luck, they’ll come to hate the enforced TV watching
Continue readingThe bad, bad BBC
I hate, loathe, despite, and deeply, deeply disrespect the BBC. So does Peter Glover, but he brings much more depth to his disdain for that institution: he’s British, he knows the facts and, while I am only forced to pay a little bit for the insignificant BBC wannabe in American
Continue readingWomen’s liberation killed American education
I consider myself a beneficiary of the saner side of Women’s Lib. (For the insane side, amuse yourself reading Christina Hoff Sommers’ Who Stole Feminism : How Women Have Betrayed Women.) After all, I was effortlessly able to launch myself into the traditionally male preserve of law. Over the years,
Continue readingMore joy
As part of my ongoing effort to spread joy through Fred Astaire, allow me to introduce you to the Cole Porter song “Don’t Monkey With Broadway,” which Astaire sings with George Murphy. (Yes, that George Murphy.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDVp_DVORk]
Continue readingThinking about things at school
Little Bookworm had a spelling test on Halloween based on a list of holiday inspired words. To that end, among other words, the list had the words “ghoulish,” “ghastly,” “glowing,” “spooky” and, to my surprise, “florescent.” “Interesting,” I thought, “that the teacher should include in this ghoulish list a fairly
Continue readingWhy the fratricide may still have been unexpected
Patrick O’Hannigan, my friend the Paragraph Farmer, used as the jumping off point for a wonderful article in The American Spectator a post of mine that had, in turn, commented favorably on a Dennis Prager article. Dennis Prager’s point, which was one I applauded, was that no one could have
Continue readingConspiracies — it’s all in how you look at them
Last night, Mr. Bookworm pointed out to me that gasoline prices have started to rise again. “They fall right before an election and go back up again after. If that isn’t a Republican conspiracy, I don’t know what is.” I told him that this is a regular annual cycle, with
Continue readingWhither (or, maybe, wither) the Jews?
What were Jewish voters doing last Tuesday? To hear the MSM tout it, they were returning to the Democratic fold in droves, at least according to one exit poll. However, Richard Baehr rides to the rescue to say, “Not so fast, my fine MSM friends.” It turns out that the
Continue readingLondon’s changing face
My husband and I started watching Prime Suspect when it first appeared on American television and liked it enough to keep watching it every time episodes showed up. It’s a very gritty crime drama (the producers love showing partially decomposed women’s corpses) that follows the unlovable but effective DCI Jane
Continue readingKnow your political self
Donald Hagen, who blogs at Rhymes with Right, took the time to prepare a lengthy satirical quiz, looking at the probable political attitudes of conservatives, liberals, libertarians and communists. Although the quiz isn’t meant to be taken too seriously, I definitely fall on the conservative/libertarian scale (or would, if I
Continue readingBrilliant essay about media, anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism
At the Augean Stables, Richard Landes has posted a brilliant essay about the role the fake Mohammad Al-Durah video played as a catalyst for unleashing the worst modern anti-Semitism around the world, and about the fact that both the video’s creation and its effect are microcosms of the poisonous alchemy
Continue readingAs usual, Dennis Prager gets it — this time about Iraq
You need to read the whole article, but I was especially struck by this point: Of course, the critics look right because we hardly seem to be winning the war in Iraq. But even here the critics are too smug. We have not won the war in Iraq because of
Continue readingJoyous perfection
The elections and the world news have let me a bit down lately. For example, Richard Baehr, a brilliant political analyst, sees a major war coming in the Middle East. The implications are Apocalyptic. I need a pick-me-up — and what better to do that than Fred Astaire? I was
Continue readingKeeping one sane voice in the UN
The Democrats have turned their sights on John Bolton, the only sane voice in the UN. If you want to attempt to stem this tide, here’s a website with ideas for helping out. If you want some background about (a) how utterly degraded, debased and anti-Semitic the UN is and
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