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• Young Son’s Shakespeare Set to Scotland’s Pipes

  As promised, a sampling of family photos from the first annual Fall Weavers Festival at historic Millstone Plantation here in Tallahassee FL. You can see Young Son playing as Richard the Third in morning scenes staged under the Great Oak, then as great highland bagpiper with the Edinburgh-born McIlroys in [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:39am EST
  by JJ

• Fencing Poem Especially for COD and Son Breck

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  We had a flood in the laundry room last weekend so it’s been a harrowing week of sorting, cleaning, tossing, throwing out wet carpet and ruined stuff, bringing in new equipment, checking to see if we need a new floor. Anyway, today in my labors I got to a top [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:09pm EST
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• The Liar, The Witch, and the KKK’s Wardrode

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  Sarah Palin’s presidential-ambition-blessing pastor was a real, literal witch-hunter and witch-persecutor. No joke. Now comes another no-joke witch story, one I saw earlier today in the Chronicle of Higher Education weekly round-up by Don Troop, under the irresistible and accurately newsworthy headline, “The Liar, the Witch and the KKK’s Ridiculous [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:32pm EST
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• Shocking News: Our Dear Friend Betty Malone

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  MEG! What happened?? Nance and I have just learned of Betty’s passing — stunned and saddened. Dear in life, dear in memory. Betty posted a comment here Sunday, about the religious left emerging. She had been writing on FaceBook about having the flu, and then the morning of Nov. 13 said [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:56am EST
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• Religious Left Emerges, Religious Right Erodes

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  From my hometown newspaper this morning at the heart of Gator Nation, in the South! — even though it’s something I can be proud of this time rather than apologize for, like what passes for good communal citizenship just down the road from UF, in a giant corporate enclave of [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:40am EST
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• Speak Up When Pro-Child Politics Are Attacked as Anti-Parent

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  Here we go again. Families, child-rearing and home education publicly stereotyped as conservative extremism and anti-human rights, sigh. If you parent and/or educate children and don’t fit this stereotype, make your voice heard too. Don’t let this define your principles. Parental rights rally on Washington planned: Your stories needed! November 11, 11:01 AM by Lynda Ackert The [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:09am EST
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• More About Young Son’s Shakespeare Saturday

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  Here’s the power of story for Young Son’s Shakespeare scenes coming up this Saturday: FALL WEAVERS FESTIVAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 10AM – 4PM MILLSTONE PLANTATION / MILLSTONE INSTITUTE 6500 OLD MILLSTONE PLANTATION ROAD, TALLAHASSEE, FL (off Thomasville Rd) $5.00 Admission for Adults Children under 12 Free EVENTS for the DAY INCLUDE: Seven Hills Handweavers Guild Demonstrations Spinning, Carding, Dyeing and Weaving Yarn [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:41pm EST
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• Sunday Afternoon Doing Shakespeare in the Park with Llamas

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  The first annual weavers’ and art fall festival at Millstone Plantation happens here Saturday the 14th, and Young Son’s Summer of Shakespeare group will be reprising their Richard III all day. Today for on-site rehearsal, they had the bright, beautiful, breezy lake setting all to themselves — except for the [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 6:06pm EST
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• Beef Jerky Action Cam??

  I am not making this up. Here I am, watching the big college football game of the week on tv — LSU v Alabama — suddenly wondering how I can be so riveted by any meme that involves a “beef jerky action cam!” Posted in colleges and universities, Cynical Stuff, Framing, [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:45pm EST
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• Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

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  more about "Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Ch…", posted with vodpod Posted in Advocacy, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Cynical Stuff, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Ethics and Philosophy, Framing, Health, Humor, Journalism, Language, learning, Liberties and Rights, Literacy, Literalism, Logic, Movies/TV, Partisan Politics, Election News/Commentary, Power of Story, Propaganda, [...][...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:01pm EST
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• Rice Krispies No Health Food, Much Less Medicine Magic

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  And that goes for Cocoa Krispies too, no matter what outrageous corporate “colors” the First Amendment might hold its nose and permit to be inflicted upon our evermore-poorly educated populace. Rice Krispies Are No Substitute For Swine Flu Vaccine: Cereal giant Kellogg said it’s dropping the eyebrow-raising claim that a box of [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:28pm EST
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• Capitol Hill Mad Hatters Show Up for More Tea Partying

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  Tea Partiers Hit Capitol: They arrived as early as 8:30 a.m., by bus, car and plane — from Bluffton, S.C., Des Moines and Dorris, Calif. — to rally with conservative lawmakers and possibly roam the halls of Congress. “Can you hear us now!” they chanted from the foot of the Capitol, as [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:31pm EST
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• Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose

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  Matt Frei for BBC News on this first anniversary of the historic election: The old saying that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose was only partially true for Obama. By late summer of 2008, he had already switched to prose. The cautious and calculating pragmatist who now runs this country [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:20pm EST
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• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

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  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . . When this [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:54am EST
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• See Google This Morning and Smile!

  Then call any handy family members over to share the smile. I just did. UPDATE: See CSM’s favorite video clips from the 40-year run. And here’s one of mine, as a sax lover: Posted in Arts, Creative Class, Early Childhood Issues, Family Values, Health, home, Humor, learning, Literacy, Movies/TV, Nature-nurture, Parent Involvement, [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:36am EST
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• Mike Lux on America’s “Historical, Hysterical Conservatives”

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  They have used the same arguments — for tradition and states rights, against “big government socialism” — in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either. . . .These conservative arguments have always been tinged with more than a little [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:54am EST
  by JJ