You want to teach first graders WHAT?

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Monday January 28, 2013 · 1:11 PM PST

2013/01/28 · 13:11

I know people here come down on both sides of the gun control debate. That's fine, I'm not here to argue with you. Personally, I abhor guns. I do not and will not ever own one. I've pulled the trigger on a gun exactly one time in my life, and that was at the insistence of a college friend who couldn't believe I'd never fired one. Didn't like it, never will. That's just my personal viewpoint, I'm not trying to convince you of that, nor am I trying to take away your guns. That's just a little background before I dive into what got me so enraged this morning.

I live in Missouri. It's a mixed bag of a state. We've got a Democratic governor and one senator, but have turned solidly red at the presidential level and in our state legislature. We're also one of the most anti-tax and pro-gun states in the Union. But what our duly elected representatives are now proposing is out-of-control crazy.

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Saturday April 14, 2007 · 4:25 PM PDT

2007/04/14 · 16:25

I am so sick of the Bush Administration's constant attempts to twist and manipulate facts to fit into their unchanging agenda, and then loudly proclaiming 'round the world that they have finally figured out a way forward and the only thing holding it back are those damn Democrats.

The article that has gotten me so upset, (I'm still not used to it, even after almost six and a half years of it), is the CNN article Bush: emphatic no to timeline to withdraw troops. Now, the whole article is pretty bad, but I didn't really start yelling at my computer screen until the last few paragraphs under the boldface line Bush agrees Americans want change in Iraq.

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Thursday April 12, 2007 · 10:41 AM PDT

2007/04/12 · 10:41

Kurt Vonnegut, without a doubt more than any other author, profoundly influenced me as a teenager to think critically, cynically, and independently.

Long, long ago, in that dark and mysterious period known as high school, I was lucky enough, I guess, to have taken a one-quarter long English class on satire. On the first day, the teacher handed us the 1959 Vonnegut work, "The Sirens of Titan." We were supposed to read it over a period of some two or three weeks, you know, take a couple quizzes, just your typical high school reading assignment. Only, I devoured the book. We were supposed to read chapter 1, and instead I read the entire book the first night I had it (naturally, at the expense of my other homework.)

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You want to teach first graders WHAT?

Going off on Bush (because I've built up too much steam)

I will miss you, Kurt Vonnegut