You have a right to fail, as Wile E. Coyote demonstrates — another one-minute Public Service Announcement from Warner Bros., circa 1986.
Also see Porky Pig and Petunia about women running for office, here.
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Striving for accuracy in history, economics, geography, education, and a little science
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- DDT chronicles: 300+ reasons to ban DDT
- James Madison, “go-to” guy
- Intelligent Design: A pig that does not fly
- Dunning-Kruger Effect
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
(The Life of Reason, vol. 1: Reason in Common Sense)
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Hot water (recent posts)
- August 20 is President Benjamin Harrison’s birthday
- Happy birthday, President Bill Clinton!
- Science lessons applied for safety, in your car. Do you drink water?
- August 2017: When should you fly your U.S. flag?
- 300 Spartans, led by Leonidas died August 11, 480 B.C.
- Carl Sagan’s “foreboding” of a dumb America; too late to stop it?
- 53 years ago: August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- August 6, 1945: Remembering Hiroshima in 2017
- August 4, 1944: Germans capture Anne Frank and her family
- History and art: Lyndon Johnson, Civil Rights, Vietnam, Stephen Stucky, the Dallas Symphony, and “August 4, 1964”
- 2nd Amendment? Don’t forget Article III, section 3; treason still a crime
- Colorado Day 2017! Coloradans fly the flag for statehood
- July 27, 2017: National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, go ahead, fly your flag
- Annals of DDT: Eagles return to Buffalo, New York, in a big way
- July 26, 2017, New York flies U.S. flags for statehood
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Splashes from the Tub (Tweets)
- RT @ProducerKen: ESPN hates racism so much that they're punishing an Asian guy for having an Asian last-name. #RobertLee @espnSplashed: 1 hour ago
- Would you wear the star? twitter.com/i/moments/9002…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @Wildaboutmusic: Let the record show, @billyjoel did not start the fire, but he may help put this one out. Like he says, "Don't take any…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @IanKahn: I lost too many family members in World War 2 wearing that star to not be grateful to @billyjoel. All Men (And Women) Are Crea…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @jasonaron: Thank you @billyjoel. As Jews we know all too well what happens when people stay silent. Be loud. We can't let history rep…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @JGreenblattADL: Much praise to @billyjoel for demonstrating w/o words that you stand ag. #antisemitism & all forms of #bigotry https://…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @AmySpiro: Here's the @simonwiesenthal Center response to Billy Joel wearing a yellow star on stage last night. twitter.com/AmySpiro/statu……Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @JulieAnnSilver: @AnneFrankCenter @billyjoel They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known..…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @AnneFrankCenter: We're so proud of you, @billyjoel, for wearing a WWII Star of David at your latest concert to protest neo-Nazi White S…Splashed: 1 hour ago
- RT @SachaDratwa: An example for all - Billy Joel wearing a Star of David during his concert yesterday in NY to protest against hate. Thank…Splashed: 1 hour 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)
- 28 poems on living life to the fullest, today
- Based on a true story -- except, not Texas. Not a chainsaw. Not a massacre.
- Who said it? 'Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees'
- Quote of the moment: John F. Kennedy, "We choose to go to the Moon"
- When do we fly the U.S. flag? Flag fly dates
- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Who said that?
- Star-spangled voodoo history
- News flash: Texas has a second natural lake!
- Misquote of the moment: Magellan didn't say it, but it's still brilliant, "shadow on the Moon"
- Historical fiction: Churchill and Fleming, and antibiotics
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Accuracy Art Books Civil Rights Climate change climate_change Creationism DDT Economics Education Education quality Education reform Environmental protection Evolution Famous quotes Flag etiquette Fly your flag today Freedom - Political Geography - Physical Geography - Political Global warming Government Health care Heroes History History images Hoaxes Humor Law Malaria Natural history photography Politics President Obama Presidents Public education Quotes Rachel Carson Rampant stupidity Religion Research Science Teaching Technology Texas Travel U.S. Constitution Voodoo science Weblogs World War IIBathtub Toys (topic categories)
Tub construction (pages)
Down the drain (archives by month since 2006)
Administrivia
Embarrassing Bubbles in the Bathtub
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
- Pharyngula
- Planet of the Apes
- Quantum Diaries Survivor
- Questionable Authority, The
- Rabett Run
- RealClimate
- remote central
- RNA Underworld
- Sandwalk
- sciencegeekgirl
- Skeptical Moth
- South Carolina Birder
- Talk.design
- Texas Climate News
- Universe Today
- Urban Science
- Why Evolution Is True
- Women in Planetary Science
- Women in Science
Faucets of Information - Texas
- 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:
Fixed, Lorry! Thanks for noticing.
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Thanks, Lorry. Alas, I am not at a computer where I can fix that right now.
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The link that seems intended to be about women running for office takes me to the same video that is embedded in the post.
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Great! Coyote demonstrate is very briefly and very well…
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Bugs and Daffy said; “The constitution works for everyone!” Yosemite Sam chimes in: “Even kids!” But we do a pretty poor job of letting kids experiment with basic freedoms in our schools. Disruption is the worst sin of all (understandable when you’re trying to run a school) so anything from a provocative t-shirt to a dumb hairstyle can get you in trouble.
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