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(ht:  Insty) The East Palo Alto school district has declined to continue Stanford’s charter elementary school since it is the lowest scoring school in the district.  (articles here and here) Ironically, the top scoring school in the district is also a charter school, but below is the quote that tells the tale.  Aspire, the folks… Continue reading

Via Drudge, an article in The Boston Globe.  It discusses the fact that those under 30 don’t know that socialism is a bad thing:  “When they hear “socialism,’’ they think Scandinavia, not Russia.”  Additionally, most of the young folks in the article are students so they’ve never experienced the real world–don’t know the ins-and-outs of… Continue reading

I was listening to Hannity on the way back from yoga last night and in a conversation between Sean, Juan Williams, and Stuart Varney, I think I heard one of the stupidest reasons for not reducing the size of the federal government.  Juan Williams said something about if we reduced the size of the federal… Continue reading

I’m not quoting her Rush Limbaugh post, which was excellent and deserving of the attention it received–if you want to read it, go here.  The quote of the day is from her post regarding the Gay San Francisco Softball team that had its second place standing revoked because they were ‘too straight’  Her comments regarding… Continue reading

Mr. B called it this morning.  He was having a different reaction to the same thing that I got and the culprit is stinging nettle, which is all around the garden (unbeknownst to me until this morning when I saw the picture).  I was pulling it up and had on gloves and long sleeves but… Continue reading

Got poison ivy again, despite both Mr. B and myself being hyper-vigilant.  This usually necessitates a trip to the doctor for a nice steroid shot and a follow-up pac for a couple of weeks.  I’m trying my damnest to avoid this (but my arm is really, REALLY looking gross right about now–got a nice huge… Continue reading

The Institute of Medicine came out with a report that recommends that the FDA should  create regulations–those things with the force of law that no one votes on–limiting the amount of salt that can be put into food  (sugar is next).  ABC last night ran a story on the horrible amounts of salt used in… Continue reading

Apparently it’s School Budget voting time in New Jersey and Gov. Christie has come out swinging (ht Jammie Wearing Fool).  Christie is accusing the teachers union of ‘using the students like drug mules’ in order to squeeze more money out of the taxpayers in New Jersey.  According to Christie, the union and its members have… Continue reading

Mr. B and I attended a Tea Party on April 14 (you can see his blogposts here and here).  It was a good time and a good crowd.  But it lead to a rather interesting conversation with a friend of mine.  I was telling her about the Tea Party and such and she said something… Continue reading