And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Feb 18, 2011 5:03:32 pm PST #23749 of 30001

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.


shrift - Feb 18, 2011 5:08:40 pm PST #23750 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

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


meara - Feb 18, 2011 5:11:06 pm PST #23751 of 30001

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!)


DavidS - Feb 18, 2011 5:28:37 pm PST #23752 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

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.)


Jesse - Feb 18, 2011 5:40:04 pm PST #23753 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, I should not be watching 30 Rock at home alone on a Friday night. With my cat.


megan walker - Feb 18, 2011 5:45:03 pm PST #23754 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

OMG, I should not be watching 30 Rock at home alone on a Friday night. With my cat.

You really shouldn't. No one should have a cat.


-t - Feb 18, 2011 5:47:00 pm PST #23755 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Stick a chip clip in your hair and your good, Jesse.

Possibly I got the wrong message from that episode.


sarameg - Feb 18, 2011 5:48:12 pm PST #23756 of 30001

I sentence you, megan walker, to a session with Mister Kitty and Loki.


DavidS - Feb 18, 2011 5:48:24 pm PST #23757 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Chez Zmayhem has responded to a cold, wet February night with: mulled wine, popcorn and a Harry Potter movie.

I must say I kicked ass on the mulled wine and popcorn.


DavidS - Feb 18, 2011 5:49:17 pm PST #23758 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I sentence you, megan walker, to a session with Mister Kitty and Loki.

I sentence megan walker to a cat-free night at our house...with her bag of lemons from javachik.

Then the cocktails.