Buzzfeed has great set of pictures of best protest signs from the Wisconsin demos. [link]

The "don't read the comments" thing goes double, because the comments thread includes a fair number of people who make you go "Don't want you on our side. Please shut up. You are not helping."

Home schooling's such an easy target.

One of my fundier cousins home schooled her kids for religious reasons, so I may have a slanted view of it.

Are dogs normally allowed on the observation deck?

I don't think so. I've been up there twice and no dogs. Twice isn't really enough to make an assessment, and yet, I'm recklessly willing to toss out my bullshit anecdata.

I have a negative view of homeschooling, I have to admit. I think it's too controlling.

Parents don't need to be all up in their kids bidness. A little benign indifference is valuable.

Close friends of mine are doing it to deal with ADHD issues and the horrifically bad school system they used to live in, but those kids are never going to be able to do anything that requires biology knowledge the Right Wing gets its panties in a twist over.

I've considered homeschooling for my hypothetical future kids, but it would depend on the kid and the schools available and a bunch of other factors. If the kid was doing fine in a regular school, then great. I'd just want to consider all the other options for if the school and the kid weren't a good fit, and homeschooling would be one option to consider.

Hell, all the homeschoolers I knew were crazy hippydippy types, so learning there was a fairly conservative wing of it was a revelation.

There are times I want to say I don't want a baby in my uterus, much less a gov't, but I recognize this sort of rhetoric is polarizing and not helpful.

I've had friends who've considered homeschooling so their kids wouldn't be taught creationism and the like.

I am sometimes happy to see all the political stuff on my friends' fb pages--even repeated over and over and over with teh same links, or the same "post this if you..." stuff. Most all my friends are of the same political persuasion as I am, so it makes me smile to know other people out there support the same things I do. OTOH, I mostly read it to be all up in people's lives, and don't post all that much political stuff myself. So, yeah.

That said, I was amused(?) after seeing all the planned parenthood links all day...and then I walked over to Trader Joe's to buy some food, and there was a person trying to get...donations? signatures? for PP. (And for once I was actually able to say "I gave at the office"! And used the company matching funds! Woot!)

My homeschooling animus is entirely free from the political spectrum.

I think it's wrong on the left and wrong on the right. If you're Jaycee Dugard it's fucking heroic. But generally speaking, I do believe kids benefit from having less parental involvement. Or, rather, they need a place to develop away from their parents as well.

I don't know how to speak to people in bad school districts, because...move, I guess, is my answer.

(Yikes, I just posted in an Archer-esque rhythm. Weird how certain comedy has certain rhythms, whether it's Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, or Gary Trudeau's third-panel joke; fourth-panel ironic-riposte, anti-joke thingie.)