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Note that the subject line of this odd spam message was, “Just save a pot of money on the medicines you buy.” Knowing that makes this even weirder:
repentance; that Christ having and another, I am of Apollos; right to all good things to come. If God has given us his only himself, even after he […]

A while back, I got into a disagreement in the comments thread on an education blog — I believe it was D-Ed Reckoning, but I’m not sure. It was a brief disagreement, since I didn’t wish to continue the discussion, and the other commenter was a bit heated, about one of those myths that, well, […]

Whenever I link to another one of my posts, it sends a pingback, of course. So why does wordpress put my pingbacks and comments in the moderation queue, for me to moderate?
And am I the only person who seems to be winning at least ten lotteries (I never entered) a day?

Only government — here, the educracy — can take an excellent idea and pervert it with a political agenda into something that is no longer recongizable. When I was a PhD student, I saw this process in action, as ultra-sincere sociolinguists changed bilingual education into a tool for furthering their political agenda.
Bilingual education
Contrary to popular […]

from one of Tim Blair’s commenters:
Has a conservative ever falsely claimed service in the Peace Corps?
Food for thought, that.

The carcass is in the stockpot on the stove now. One advantage of making your own stock: It do make the whole house smell wonderful.

Hat tip to Clark Baker for this article that looks at where NEA money goes. Let’s look at a partial list of where the largest teachers union in the nation spends its money, and see how concerned about education they are, shall we?

Mr. Crittenden has outdone himself.
It was March 11, 2003, when I got on the bus that was taking us from the Hilton out to the camps in the Kuwaiti desert. Sig got on after. I didn’t know him then, except he introduced himself and took my name, because he was very serious about his […]

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