Scott Adcox

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Socialization Experience For Your Home Schooler

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Here’s a pretty funny response to the old argument that home school kids don’t get socialization.

If you want to get a bit old-school take him into the bathroom once in a while and threaten to smack him upside the head unless he gives you his lunch money.

Follow the link to read the whole thing…it’s hilarious.

And here’s something to think about seriously:  I went to public school. If I’m any indication of who they’ll be socializing with, is that what you want for you child’s education?

HT Kleinheider

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Brushing Up On My Spanish

I watch this video, I don’t know, 9 or 10 times a day just to make sure I don’t forget everything I’ve learned. You can come back here and watch it any time…it’s a guilty pleasure.

One day I’m going to have a big old square white house and we’re going to go outside, turn off all the lights, and dance by the pool. Also my shoulder will be massive from constantly pulling off my jacket just enough to expose them.

Post Office Competition. Well?

The Missus and I were talking about the comments President Obama made the other day about Fedex/UPS/USPS and competition. Lots of people are laughing about it, but here’s someone breaking it down to levels beyond scientific.

It’s fascinating how it all comes down to the post office, again and again, in the history of public policy. And so it is in our time, with Obama’s admission/gaffe/slip concerning the post office and its analogy to what he wants to do with healthcare.

A long read, but worth it.

Dropping Science Like Galileo Dropped The Orange

science_parentingI have a few friends that are expecting babies soon. Well, their wives are…my friends just look like they are expecting babies soon.

I was reminded of this really cool gift a friend gave me. This book basically gives you an idea about what goes on in the human brain as it develops and what to expect behavior-wise based on what’s going on physiologically.

Oh wait…first let me tell you how you should parent your kids. It basically goes like this…

You should parent your kids the way you see fit–don’t pay attention to unsolicited advice from other people.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, if you are like me and didn’t don’t know anything about babies, you may find this book interesting. Good gift for expecting parents too, especially if they lean more towards an AP philosophy.

More Right Wing Propoganda

It’s coming once again from that mouthpiece for the Republican Party, Fox News CNN Money–5 key freedoms you LOSE under Obama’s health care:

  • Freedom to choose what’s in your plan
  • Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs
  • Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage
  • Freedom to keep your existing plan
  • Freedom to choose your doctors

If that’s too much reading for you, George Michael has a little sumpin’ to say about it. Plus there are pretty girls.

People You Wish Would STFU

When I started reading this, I was sure I’d fall into one of the seven categories presented–click over for the lengthy descriptions. Turns out I’ve been most of them at one time or another.

  • People Who Are Too Big for Their Britches
  • Snobs Who Look down Their Noses at Everyone
  • Cold Fish
  • Anyone Who Talks the Talk but Can’t Walk the Walk
  • People Who Beat around the Bush
  • Morons Talking Out Of The Wrong End
  • Long-Winded Gasbags

I could add a few more to that list, but I can’t risk being long-winded to do so.

Mad Men, Hitler, and Head-On Commercials

Flashback to 1933: US ad industry digs Hitler.

The article then goes on to quote Hitler at length talking about something that Americans who worked in advertising at the time already believed: that the masses are morons who respond only to simple messages repeated thousands of times…

You really do see it every day in advertising–a catchy phrase is repeated often and all of a sudden it is part of the vernacular. It becomes an accepted truth of the society.

I certainly hope no politician ever tries to change our political system into one driven by empty slogans.

Full of Sound and Fury? Signifying Nothing?

What will be the end result of resolutions in the various states supporting the 10th Amendment?

While seven states – Tennessee, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Alaska and Louisiana – have had both houses of their legislatures pass similar decrees, Alaska Gov. Palin and Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen are currently the only governors to have signed their states’ sovereignty resolutions.

Sarah Palin has now joined Phil Bredesen as one of the most polarizing political figures in the Union </sarcasm>

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Seth Godin

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn’t.

This is just contrarian enought that I can agree with every single word.

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