Archive for October, 2008

What to do? Part 1

People keep asking me, since I’m so upset and seeing this stuff and yelling about it, “OK, fine, I see it too… but what do I do about it?” It’s a valid question, and I’m doing some digging about how to answer it fully. Right now the things I’m suggesting you do are: If you [...]

What Woody Said

As performed by Bruce Springsteen. Because it was, whether we value that or not.

An October to Remember?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand here we go. If you haven’t watched anything or clicked any link I have posted, PLEASE watch this. Really. I posted the link to the martial law thing a few days ago, so I knew about that (and so should all of you). I didn’t know about the deployment, which makes the martial law [...]

Why Aren’t We?

In yet another superlative post, Sharon asks us, “Why aren’t the peasants rebelling?” I ask myself that same question every single stinkin’ day. Cause friends… if you aren’t terrified right now, you aren’t paying attention. Our Constitution is crumbling, our government is tightening the fist of oppression tighter every day (did you catch this one [...]

Missing One Small Thing…

My pal and loyal reader Jackie passed along this article, from Chemical & Engineering News, about strides made in understanding the makeup of breastmilk: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8639cover.html Notice how, sprinkled all through, are references to things they don’t know about why breastmilk is so perfect? Hello, it’s the delivery system. Anyone can tell you that a good [...]

Chilling in a Bad Way.

Martial Law? Oh really? http://www.c-spanarchives.org/congress/?q=node/77531&id=8902076

Liberal Humor

By way of the Mighty Ellie.

Aurora at 15 weeks

Aurora is growing rapidly now; she’s teething, she’s rolling over, and she’s doing pushups, which everyone knows is a prelude to ::gulp:: crawling. We’re in trouble, clearly.

Deschooling Gently – Launch Party Oct. 12th

I am pleased as punch to announce the Launch Party for my friend Tammy Takahashi’s new book, “Deschooling Gently”. From the Hunt Press site, On Sunday, October 12th, from 2pm-5pm, homeschoolers in the greater Los Angeles region are invited to come celebrate their recognized freedom and the beginning of their school year, at the launch [...]

Aurora vs. the Bureaucrat

I think there’s no time like the present to teach your kids that bureaucracies are made for poking holes in. Like, when they’re three months old. Aurora and I set off for downtown Oakland, to get her paper trail going. Ours is a documentation-crazy society, and it’s far easier to do all this when they’re [...]