It’s a tough place to go to school, but somebody has to do it.
Kenny Darrell in Chania, on the island of Crete, becoming a teacher - photo by Stacy Grace
Travel is an education of itself
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
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- Intelligent Design: A pig that does not fly
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Who needs a soak in Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub?
Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
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- December 2019 flag-flying days
- Timpanogos dressed in snow
- November 2019 days to fly the flag
- Owl watches you from Owlbuquerque
- Global heating made this possible and made it worse
- Western skies, rain clouds and a lone tree
- Lesser-known flag-flying date: October 6, to honor fallen firefighters
- Gold Star Mothers Day 2019 – fly your flag on Sunday, September 29
- Typewriter of the moment: Where John Irving birthed Garp
- September 16, 2018, is Mexico’s Independence Day
- “NOAA chief scientist just really going for it”
- Colorado statehood day, August 1, 2018
- August 2019: Unfurl Old Glory on these days
- Signs of life: Traffic trouble with squirrels
- Wherever it can, life blossoms
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- RT @Alyssa_Milano: The below tweet should have thousands of RTs already. Where’s your outrage? twitter.com/alyssa_milano/…Splashed: 5 hours ago
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- RT @Susan_Hennessey: Thus far I'd say FBI officials are 95% vindicated by this, Carter Page is ~30% vindicated, and Trump is not vindicated…Splashed: 7 hours ago
- RT @Susan_Hennessey: I do think IG report gives Carter Page legitimate basis to be upset & while it isn't entirely clear, there is a real p…Splashed: 7 hours ago
- RT @Susan_Hennessey: IG takes real issue with the FBI not including all relevant information about Carter Page to OI for the FISA applicati…Splashed: 7 hours ago
- RT @Susan_Hennessey: I'm still giving it a careful read, but overall the IG report completely blows away Trump conspiracy theories, says au…Splashed: 7 hours ago
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We've been soaking in the Bathtub for several months, long enough that some of the links we've used have gone to the Great Internet in the Sky. If you find a dead link, please leave a comment to that post, and tell us what link has expired. Thanks!Currently warm bathing (top posts)
- Who said it? 'Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees'
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Who said that?
- Joseph Keppler's cartoon on why we need the 17th Amendment
- 28 poems on living life to the fullest, today
- Nate White's stunning answer to the question: Why do many British people not like Donald Trump?
- Yes, DDT is deadly to humans, as suicides demonstrate
- Quote of the moment: Housman, "accuracy a duty" in history
- Millard Fillmore: Still dead, still misquoted, 133 years later
- How to fold state flags
- When do we fly the U.S. flag? Flag fly dates
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Tub construction (pages)
Down the drain (archives by month since 2006)
Administrivia
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Faucets of Information - Earth - Environment - Well-being
Faucets of Information - Economics
- Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy
- Adamant
- Arctic Economics
- Baseline Scenario, The
- Becker-Posner Blog
- Cafe Hayek
- Commanding Heights
- Common Tragedies
- Conscience of a Liberal
- Conversable Economist
- Economists’ View
- Grasping Reality with Both Hands
- Greg Mankiw’s Blog
- Marginal Revolution
- Rabett Run
- Robert Reich’s Blog
- SquawkFox
- Unsettling Economics
Faucets of Information - Education
- 2¢ worth
- 3σ → Left
- A Fat Question
- A Shrewdness of Apes
- Action-Reaction
- Alfie Kohn’s blog
- Alltop Education
- Are we doing anything today?
- Around the Corner v.2 – McGuhlin.net
- Basil on the Wall (formerly Where's the teacher?)
- blyberg.net
- Building the Teaching Profession
- Class Struggle
- Connecting Through Conversations
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- Curricublog, Tony’s
- D-Ed Reckoning
- Daily Hurricane
- Dallas Morning News blog on DISD
- Dana Goldstein, Lady Wonk
- Diane Ravitch's Blog
- Docere est discere (Teach/Learn)
- Dreamteacher, The
- EarlyStories
- Edspresso
- Education and Technology
- Education Gadfly
- Education with Technology
- Education Wonks
- Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas
- Elementary Educator
- Evolved Homeschooling (webring)
- Eye on Education
- f(t)
- Farm School
- Fred Klonsky
- From the Trenches of Public Ed
- Getting Things Done in Academia
- Halfway There
- JD2718
- JoanneJacobs.com
- Language Log
- Learning.now
- Leiter Reports
- Living Classroom
- Math Tales from the Spring
- Motivated Grammar
- Motivation Matters (at EdWeek)
- National Council for Social Studies resource page
- NYC Educator
- One Laptop Per Child News
- Our Global History
- Outside the Cave
- Primordial Blog
- S.P.P.D.F.T.
- School Law Blog
- Schools Matter
- Stephen’s Web, by Stephen Downes
- Teacher in a strange land
- Thoughts of the President
- Today’s Homework
- Weblogg-ed
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
Faucets of Information - Geography
Faucets of Information - Government
Faucets of Information - History
- A History Teacher
- Airline Empires
- American Heritage
- American Presidency Project
- American President
- American Presidents Blog
- Another History Blog
- Bharat Museum
- Boston 1775
- Charters of Freedom (National Archives)
- Chicago History
- Civil War Memory
- Clio Bluestocking Tales
- Cliopatria
- Edge of the American West, The
- Elektratig
- Fake History
- Famous Trials (Douglas Linder’s site)
- Frederick Douglass's Women: In Progress
- Gilder Lehrman Institute
- Golden Oldie Ads
- Got Medieval
- Great American Things
- History 128: U.S. history through the Civil War
- History is Elementary
- History News Network, Teachers’ Lounge
- History on Trial
- Holocaust denial on trial
- Houstorian
- Lone Star Junction
- Musings from Sumigirl
- National Archives of the US
- National Center for History in the Schools
- National Constitution Center
- Northwest History
- Old News
- Our Global History
- Patriots and Peoples
- Public Historian
- Slavery trials, Library of Congress
- Student of History
- Texian Web Ring
- Uncovered History
- World History Blog
Faucets of Information - Law
Faucets of Information - Science
- A Quantum of Knowledge
- Afarensis
- Anti-Climage Change Extremism in Utah
- Astrobiology Magazine
- Austringer
- Austringer, The
- Beagle Project
- Bug Girl
- Center for Conservation Biology
- Climate Change
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Darwin Report
- Deltoid
- Farm School
- Geo.Sphere
- Global Warming: Man or Myth?
- Greenfyre
- Highly Allocthonous
- M@narch's Nature Blog
- Naught Much
- Neighborhood Toxicologist
- Open Mind
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- Questionable Authority, The
- Rabett Run
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- remote central
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- sciencegeekgirl
- Skeptical Moth
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- Talk.design
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- Why Evolution Is True
- Women in Planetary Science
- Women in Science
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- Best of Texas
- Bill Chance – This Is Not Going to Turn Out Well
- Blog of the Airtightnoodle
- Bluedaze
- Brains and Eggs
- Burka Blog
- Burnt Orange Report
- Californian in Texas
- Capitol Annex
- City Limits
- Daily Hurricane
- Don’t Mess With Taxes
- Eye on Williamson
- Fabulous Geezersisters’ Weblog
- In the Pink Texas
- Jobs Anger
- Kerr County Conscience
- Left of College Station
- Lone Star Junction
- Margaret and Helen
- Mug Shots
- Musings
- Oak Cliff Yesterday
- One Hundred Monkeys in Texas
- Pegasus News
- Planet Pooks
- Political Teen Tidbits
- Post Cards from San Antonio
- Real Live Preacher
- Ruth Pennebaker
- So Far From Heaven
- So Much Food, So Little Time
- Somervell County Salon
- Spanish-English Word Connections
- StandDown Texas Project
- Texas Blue
- Texas Bookshelf
- Texas Climate News
- Texas Forums
- Texas Less Traveled
- Texas Progressive Blogs
- Texas Weekly
- Thoughts About Things
- Will’s Texas Parlor
- Young Texas Reader
Faucets of Information, miscellaneous
- 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
- First Morning, The
- Gurney Journey
- Harris Polls
- Motivated Grammar
- On the Mark: Social Commentary from a Reflective Perspective
- Pseudo-Polymath
- Talking Points Memo
- WIST
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You are here in history:
Easy question to answer, Shelley: No.
How do we know? Because there was no “Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub.”
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You look so happy! Makes me wish I were there instead of about to proofread my blog.
Query: Was Millard Fillmore’s bathtub the one Taft got stuck in?
Inquiring minds want to know….
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Kenny is clearly not suffering enough in getting his education. Jealous. I’m jealous.
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It makes me wistful for the youth I wasted traveling the U.S. instead of Europe . . . it’s been a great adventure so far, and it’s just beginning.
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Great picture, Ed! Both the scenery and the young man. How wonderful that he is able to have this experience.
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