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  • America’s Future

    In the middle of grading my community college students’ papers, I read the following excerpt from student’s essay aloud to The Boy: Once the US, as big as we are, starts taking oil from Alaska and other countries… The Boy just laughed and said: Perhaps we should educate that student about Seward’s Folly.    

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  • No Complaining Allowed

    This weekend, The Boy and I took advantage of early voting and cast our ballots for the last election of 2011. We didn’t have any candidates on the ballot, but we had ten (count ’em: 10) constitutional amendments to consider. That means we’ve voted in every election this year and have not only made our […]