[John Taylor Gatto speaks about schools and brainwashing]

Reflects a good deal of my issues w/ public school, particularly elementary level….children processed like raw materials, schools expecting parents to surrender their own parenting style to allow others to uniformly indoctrinate children, blanket education regardless of learning styles & individual personality needs….

[Link Love]

Rough Sex with Vampires what True Blood tells us about women & sexuality

A few facts about the Honduran military coup

100 Best Blogs for School Librarians Well, and for teachers,homeschoolers,parents and book sluts

Cinemash:Sid & Nancy/(500) Days of Summer Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt cinemashing

A New Control of Destiny wonderful edition of “This I Believe” ,focusing on words of Margaret Mead. Margaret Mead says she can’t separate what she believes as a person from what she believes as an anthropologist. And she believes humans beings, as part of a greater biological whole, have a responsibility to everyone else on the planet. True dat.

DIY Deoderant recipe to help you not smell

Nouvelle Vague The two sexiest voices in English-speaking Frenchpop, covering Sex Pistols, Violent Femmes, Depeche Mode, and Talking Heads. Personally, i love them but their cover of Modern English’s “Melt with You” was met with severe criticism by my dear psuedo-hubby, who said,”What they just did to that song was criminal”. Can’t please everyone, I s’pose.

[Library Loot]

current goodies out from the library

Best show on TV,ever.

[blog title from The Wire,Season 2. Which episode? I can't remember. Towards the beginning of the season.]