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Classes start today, and this promises to be a very busy year. As you read this, I’ll be meeting my new group of kids and diving head-first into a whole new curriculum and dealing with a long list of stuff that’s already making this school term “interesting.” WAY too much so!
I have a lot to [...]
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Elbow: “One Day Like This”
Happy music is good to find. H/t to Rowena for this.
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I Hear America Singing
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe
and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for [...]
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“A Few Good Kids?”
As the kids return to school, a couple of interesting articles dealing with the subject of military recruiting on campus:
A Few Good Kids?
(Mother Jones) Sept/Oct 2009 – John Travers was striding purposefully into the Westfield mall in Wheaton, Maryland, for some back-to-school shopping before starting his junior year at Bowling Green State University. When I asked [...]
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