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- More good news about Obamacare: No pre-existing conditions clause
- Quote of the moment: John Adams, necessity of public schools to make the nation work
- Time Piece, Jim Henson on life and its brevity, circa 1965
- Texas primary TODAY! Voter ID law not applied
- Fly your flag today, Memorial Day 2012
- Rachel Carson’s birthday
- Facebook-fiends-and-Twitterists? “I’ve got them on the list.”
- President Obama’s Memorial Day message
- New Dallas superintendent Mike Miles warns the troops
- Why you need math
- Eclipse? Opportunity for photographers to show off
- Time lapse photos: NYC, before 1975
- Some stuff teachers don’t need in education
- Tom Toles cartoon pegs ecoRomics
- Would you even know a good teacher, if she pushed your kid to great achievement?
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Splashes from the Tub (Tweets)
- Republicans ready to steal elections? Worry about REAL voter fraud: motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201…Splashed: 7 hours ago
- RT @DaveHitz: At HR conference in session on social media: "Execs should never let anyone ghost-write their tweets."Splashed: 8 hours ago
- RT @scouting: Scouters share their advice on how to recruit parents to serve as leaders: ow.ly/bjbbPSplashed: 8 hours ago
- RT @hughwel: @DianeRavitch If you have high stakes testing then you'll have high stakes cheating aljazeera.com/news/americas/…Splashed: 8 hours ago
- RT @carlzimmer: So who's going to let creationist Chuck Norris know he just lifted his whole column from an evolution writer? http://t.c ...Splashed: 14 hours ago
- RT @THOMASdotgov: Permalink PSA: use the green Share/Save button in the upper right corner of each THOMAS page to get a permanent link.Splashed: 14 hours ago
- Another excuse for inaction on climate change: Milky Way Galaxy Doomed to Head-On Crash with Andromeda news.yahoo.com/milky-way-gala… via @YahooNewsSplashed: 2 days ago
- Why would any woman vote Republicans into Congress? slate.com/blogs/xx_facto… via @doublexmagSplashed: 2 days ago
- RT @LarrySmith259: "@DianeRavitch: Student performance is determined primarily by student work: schoolinfosystem.org/archives/2011/…" That's heresy to t ...Splashed: 2 days ago
- RT @skepticscience: CO2 levels hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years wapo.st/KVYNCsSplashed: 2 days ago
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Currently warm bathing (top posts)
- 28 poems on living life to the fullest, today
- Quote of the moment: John F. Kennedy, "We choose to go to the Moon"
- Based on a true story -- except, not Texas. Not a chainsaw. Not a massacre.
- What's in a name? A Texas town by any other name . . .
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Who said that?
- Ranan Lurie cartoon competition: Sabat, African tsunami
- River blindness "curse" lifted
- News flash: Texas has a second natural lake!
- "Do you believe in me?" 5th grader Dalton Sherman inspires Dallas teachers
- World's oldest animation, 5,200 years old
- Odd site to defend Peter Gleick's exposing of Heartlandgate, citing the law that will let him skate
- Does this photograph show Teddy Roosevelt at Lincoln's funeral procession?
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- Are we doing anything today?
- Around the Corner v.2 – McGuhlin.net
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- Elementary Educator
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- A Quantum of Knowledge
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- Best of Texas
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- Margaret and Helen
- Mug Shots
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- One Hundred Monkeys in Texas
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- Real Live Preacher
- Ruth Pennebaker
- So Far From Heaven
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- Somervell County Salon
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- Cagle’s Political Cartoons Index
- Coyote Crossing, formerly Creek Running North
- Dave Does the Blog
- Digital Cuttlefish
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- Dying Man’s Daily Journal
- En Tequila es Verdad
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- Gurney Journey
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- Pseudo-Polymath
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- Republicans ready to steal elections? Worry about REAL voter fraud: motherjones.com/kevin-drum/201… 7 hours ago
- RT @DaveHitz: At HR conference in session on social media: "Execs should never let anyone ghost-write their tweets." 8 hours ago
- RT @scouting: Scouters share their advice on how to recruit parents to serve as leaders: ow.ly/bjbbP 8 hours ago
- RT @hughwel: @DianeRavitch If you have high stakes testing then you'll have high stakes cheating aljazeera.com/news/americas/… 8 hours ago
- RT @carlzimmer: So who's going to let creationist Chuck Norris know he just lifted his whole column from an evolution writer? http://t.c ... 14 hours ago
- RT @THOMASdotgov: Permalink PSA: use the green Share/Save button in the upper right corner of each THOMAS page to get a permanent link. 14 hours ago
- Another excuse for inaction on climate change: Milky Way Galaxy Doomed to Head-On Crash with Andromeda news.yahoo.com/milky-way-gala… via @YahooNews 2 days ago
- Why would any woman vote Republicans into Congress? slate.com/blogs/xx_facto… via @doublexmag 2 days ago
- RT @LarrySmith259: "@DianeRavitch: Student performance is determined primarily by student work: schoolinfosystem.org/archives/2011/…" That's heresy to t ... 2 days ago
- RT @skepticscience: CO2 levels hit 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years wapo.st/KVYNCs 2 days ago
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