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Egg-free cookies and cream ice cream
You know that old ditty about screaming for ice cream? It’s a good thing my daily newsletter from Feels Like Home lands while the guys still are awake, or there would have been no getting …
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Develop a national test before deciding what to teach is backward
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s plan to start developing a national test before anyone’s even come up with national standards is far worse that putting the cart before the horse.
It’s more like hitching up Secretariat …
Health »
Time to take the Singulair question to a doctor
I partially bought the drug-company spin on Singulair in January largely because I wanted to:
The Food and Drug Administration found no link between the popular asthma drug and increased suicide risk, which led manufacturer Merck …
News »
Notion of banning links misses a link in why readers go online
In about an hour each morning, I can browse five newspapers - two national, two state and one local - without killing a single tree.
When I’m finished with that, I survey a dozen or so …
Reviews »
Review: Van’s All Natural Waffles
I absolutely hate the idea of paying $3.49 for six frozen waffles. Yet, I have been because once summer hits I lose all inclination to stand at the stove and flip pancakes.
That’s why Van’s All Natural …
School days »
A SWAT for turning a student sit-in into a smackdown
She’s been banned from giving a speech at graduation, banished from grad night at Disney, suspended for two days and lost a summer tutoring job she was counting on to help pay for college.
Aurora Ponce …
By the way
- It’s a ballerina! It’s a fairy! It’s easy!
06/12/2009 | 12:05 pmI’m kind of frustrated this morning because I don’t have girls. I don’t even know any girls young enough to appreciate this. But if I did, I’d be all over the tutu tutorial - say that ...
- Lipstick or complaining? Which will it be?
05/30/2009 | 8:17 amPoor Boots. He wakes up every morning chirping with the birds and with a cheery greeting. “It’s a beautiful day!” Somewhere along the line, though, the grind of the world beats the beauty out of it ...
- Falling with style: If bots can master it, why can’t I?
05/21/2009 | 11:18 pmOn one level, it’s simple: When you’re about to fall, just let go and fall. Trying to stop the tumble or, even worse, flailing your arms and legs as you land will make it worse. Somewhere ...
- Epiblogue: Now he looks like the Karate Kid
05/20/2009 | 9:03 pm
There’s often a reason why Big Guy does the seemingly quirky things he does. A reason that makes sense only in his 5-year-old brain, but a reason nonetheless.
I usually don’t question, because if it’s genuinely ... - Nut warning on General Mills cereals
05/20/2009 | 10:18 amThis one landed in my Twitter stream just as Boots was diving into a bowl of … Cocoa Puffs: “New peanut flour warning for General Mills cereals.” Luckily, he’s not the child who’s allergic and Big ...
- Reason No. 3,542 the Brits are bonkers
05/19/2009 | 12:56 amFrom the country that wants to censor the Internet worldwide in the name of protecting its children comes another bizarre project, also in the name of “protecting children” The British have launched a database, at a ...
- Epiblogue: Snow cone syrups
05/18/2009 | 11:38 pmDo I ever feel like a dolt after my post last night lamenting the difficulties of finding dye-free snow-cone syrups. I went to a Middle Eastern market today to pick up some hummus ingredients and ran ...
- Party on, dude: A kiddy luau
05/16/2009 | 8:16 pm
Parties in the park seem to be the rage around here of late - a rage that will be over by the time Big Guy’s birthday rolls around in 103-degree July - and today’s was ... - An extraordinary life
05/15/2009 | 10:15 pmSix hundred and eight three killed in Afghanistan. Four thousand, two hundred and ninety six killed in Iraq. Many stories of incredible lives, often amazing sacrifices. This is one such story. Army Maj. Steven Hutchison survived two ...
- The case against rigid standards
05/14/2009 | 9:38 pmStandards are good - they’re a framework for building a solid education. Problem is, though, they’re only a framework, just as the human skeleton is the framework for the body. And just like the human body, the ...
- At least your office fridge didn’t send you to the hospital
05/12/2009 | 8:51 pmWe’ve all been there - the office refrigerator were forgotten lunches take on lives of their own, rotting, curdling and fermenting until the odor creates a better appetite suppressant than anything on the market. Few of ...
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