Welcome to O’DonnellWeb 10.0 – I think. Whatever version it is, it’s the first version on WordPress. I’m sure I’ve got broken links here and there, I’ll tidy up as I go along. However, I’m at least 80% there, so here you go. If you are an RSS person the first thing you want to [...]
There is a growing trend in the schools to extend the school day and school year. Schools are adding an hour to the standard six hour day, and some are adding 20-40 days to the standard 180 day school year. Apparently 1080 hours a year just isn’t enough time. One definition of insanity is continuing [...]
Reynolds Fun Shapes are running a contest called ?Shape Up Your Bake Sale.” Here?s how it works: Consumers can write into www.reynoldsfunshapes.com and explain why their bake sale needs ?shaping up? for a chance to win a FunShapes ?Shape Up Your Bake Sale? kit. Reynolds will be giving away sixty of these kits each week [...]
HSLDA is rustling the sheeple to call their state legislators in VA this week regarding HB1294. From what I see in the state legislative system, the bill was held over for 2007, and does not appear to be on the committee docket for this week. However, it wasn’t clear if the online dockets were current. [...]
Apparently, one of the requirements to write at Ezine is that you must be totally unfamiliar with the phrase it is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. I present homeschool expert Jeremy Low. He is also an expert on jet skis, and male infertility.
The great corporate master in the sky has bestowed upon me a Philips Digital Photo Frame. My wife has made it very clear that they aren’t getting it back. She has also made it very clear that I can’t regift it to my mother. To start, the packaging is immaculate. It unfolds much like an [...]
I’m reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I just started, I haven’t even followed corn all the way through yet. One thing that I read last night though really stuck in my head. One economist estimated that it takes 1 barrel of oil to get a steak onto your grill. Think about the number of cows in [...]
You Are Incredibly Logical Move over Spock – you’re the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer! How Logical Are You?
And now for something completely different, the Columbus, OH based punk band The Dead Shembechlers present their first video, for the song Bomb Ann Arbor Now. Purdue doesn’t play either Ohio State or Michigan this year, so I’m ambivalent. Both cities could blow up for all I care
This is your cue to read something that’ll piss somebody else off. Harry Potter, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men are all in the top 20. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
These tactics on mentally beating your children into submission would be a violation of the Geneva Convention if they were used in prisons. In the home, Family Ministries calls it it biblical parenting. Should we be suspicious of a “ministry” when the first thing you see on their web site is the toll free number [...]
I thought this might be a spoof on exercise web sites, but I’m pretty sure they are serious. via Daniel
I don’t care how busy you are. Set aside 15 minutes and read this story from Scott’s favorite newspaper. It’s an excerpt from Micheal Lewis’(of Moneyball fame) new book. A freakishly large and fast 16 year old black kid, essentially homeless, shows up at a haughty Christian academy in Memphis. He can barely read or [...]
According to Nielson researchers, there are 2.73 televisions in the average US home, and only 2.55 people. Over 50% of households have 3 or more TVs. We have two in use. A third 19″ TV is collecting dust in the guest bedroom. The family room TV is just a standard 36″ model, and the home [...]
I don’t remember seeing this before. Jon Stewart interviewed the author of the New Yorker article on Patrick Henry College that was published back in June.
