Aaand In my hungoverness I forgot to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!!!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Aaand In my hungoverness I forgot to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!!!
Wal-Mart! Boo. Hiss. Enemies of the people.
Ok, you all know that I am somewhere to the left of Marx. Still, I have to come out with some defenses for WalMart, 'cause they are doing the capitalist thing in proper...
Sorry, tommy. For some reason, nexis only has issues of Science through 2004. Nothing more current. Bastids.
I know parents of children with learning issues that home school because it serves the child's needs best. It works better for some super brainiacs that need more challenges and it works for children with special needs if their parents have the skill to do it.
It's something you see a lot with (child) musicians, too.
Capitalism is conspiring to keep me from science.
Thanks for trying....
It's bloody harsh, then. But that's not news. I won't shop in one, though.
The spelling bee champion kids are usually homeschooled, aren't they? So they can really focus on the spelling.
Ditto for musical prodigees. Most of the kids in the piano documentary I worked on were home-schooled.
[ooh, musical x-post!]
Capitalism is conspiring to keep me from science...
I have examined this utterance over and over. It still makes no sense to me.
Just checked the library data bases - all citation only
It's something you see a lot with (child) musicians, too.
Like Prince.
OK, I have no idea if Prince was home schooled. But it reminds me of my Prince story....
So WGN morning news was doing some '80s trivia thing. As part of it, they got a stagehand or camera man or something to answer some trivia questions. He got the first two correct. The third question was, "Name Prince's first number one single."
So the guy says, "Um, 'Soft and Wet'?" At which point the female anchor (Robin Baumgarten) totally lost it - she could not stop laughing, so she covered her face with a newspaper and then after a bit she got up and walked away from the desk. It took about a minute for things to settle down....