Wotta Day - First, my

Wotta Day - First, my son was sick. Or, should I say, "sick". Oh, he had a little fever early in the day, but by noon it was clear that he was really just sick of one of his Teachers' Assistants.

Then, my ISP's servers started acting up; this site became very slow to load, and I couldn't send (but COULD receive) emails. My ISP was undergoing an upgrade - at least, I hope that was the upgrade. If there's more downtime coming up, I'm going to be miffed.

I'll be working more on the Hatch story today. It's interesting - I haven't done this sort of thing in a long time.

And speaking of which - I have another story to work on...

Does Tom Swift Know About This? - Recently, a court forced a school in New England (I think - I can't find the link) to allow pro-life groups to distribute literature on their campus, after a parent noted that pro-"choice" groups were allowed to freely distribute their literature. After he was barred from getting "equal time", he filed suit - and won.

Both of my kids go to the Saint Paul Public Schools. Unlike some conservatives, I'm not a reflexive trasher of public schools; a motivated kid can get a decent education there (and an unmotivated kid is going to be poorly schooled no matter where she goes). But the parent has to be ready to ride herd, endlessly, on teachers, administrators, and the hordes of apparatchiks at the SPPS' hulking fortress of an administrative office at 360 Colborne.

And I am going to start the herd-riding process today.

My daughter goes to a school that has a more-liberal-than-usual staff. They've labelled themselves a "peace site", or some such. College kids who'd been to Iraq (before the war) lectured the kids on how unjust the upcoming war was, with no expat Iraqis or Kurds to give the little impressionable minds any perspective (although my daughter, bless her little budding conservative heart, did manage to question a few of them).

But if my daughter isn't stretching things, they may have gone to far this time.

She tells me that Code Pink has been allowed to hand out anti-Concealed-Carry literature.

So I'll be talking with the principal today to try to get to the bottom of this. More as events warrant.

(By the way, if anyone has a link to that story, I'd be much appreciative if you could send it to me. It'll be fun to show the principal).