Monthly Archives: August 2009

Overdraft note from 1967

By Headmistress | Published: August 31, 2009

Moving an old secretary from the Rattery into my dining room, an overdraft notice from 1967 slid out from under one of the compartments: Our books show your account overdrawn $2.35. If this is correct kindly notify us at once; if not correct, notify us immediately. PLEASE READ RULINGS BELOW:U.S. SUPREME COURT RULING: “A usage […]

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Text messaging and social skills

By Headmistress | Published: August 31, 2009

  In September 2008, when Nielsen Mobile announced that teenagers with cellphones each sent and received, on average, 1,742 text messages a month, the number sounded high, but just a few months later Nielsen raised the tally to 2,272.   One of the first questions homeschoolers get is the S word- What about socialization? Turns […]

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The CIA did NOT release the documents Cheney requested?

By Headmistress | Published: August 31, 2009

From Timothy Noah at Slate: I spent two days trying to get an answer out of the Justice Department, expecting at any moment to be told that of course this was a clerical error and of course the Obama administration wouldn’t try to pull a fast one, especially given the near-certainty that it would be […]

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Can we stop calling free dealing with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY compassion, now?

By Headmistress | Published: August 31, 2009

The LATimes lauds the late Senator Kennedy for ‘reminding us how great we can be if choose compassion over complacency.’ That’s kind of an odd either/or choice, since the only alternative to Kennedy’s brand of ‘compassion’ certainly is NOT complacency. But it’s also odd because, as Donald Boudreaux reminds us, as with most Democrats who […]

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Vintage Book: The Second Graders Build a Class Library

By Headmistress | Published: August 31, 2009

Had I done a better job of scanning, this first illustration would make a nice avatar or illustration for a bookblog: I find this stuff fascinating. These second grade children- what is that? Eight? These 7 or 8 year olds are ripping apart boxes, painting furniture, making curtains, and fixing and selling candy. We don’t […]

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