Daily Archives: 26 October 2008

Responsible school parenting

1. What are the names of your child’s best friends at school? Have you met their parents?

2. What is the name of your child’s teacher, the teacher’s office phone number, and the teacher’s qualifications to teach?

3. What are the qualifications of the school principal?

4. Have you read your child’s textbooks? checked them for factual content?

5. Do you have regular meetings/chats/email with your child’s teacher?

6. Do you speak up at school board meetings?

7. Do you regularly discuss and participate in your child’s homework?

8. Do you study proposals to modify school funding in your area, and vote accordingly?

If so, excellent!

If not, why the hell not? Don’t you care about the quality of education your child is receiving?

You don’t like the quality of your child’s education? Fine. Look into private schools, or homeschooling, or at least get more involved in what you do have.

Some thoughts on the political scene

Some thoughts about our current political system, from V for Vendetta:


“It’s no good blaming the drop in work standards upon bad management, either, though to be sure, the management is very bad. In fact, let us not mince words. The management is terrible.

“We’ve had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars, and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact.

“But who elected them? It was you! You who appointed these people! You who gave them the power to make your decisions for you!

“While I admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.

“You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workspace with dangerous and unproven machines.

“You could have stopped them. All you had to do is say ‘No!’ You have no spine. You have no pride.”

Rules of the (relationship) road

You can’t create a healthy relationship by starting out with a laundry list of “musts”.

Judge the individual, not the group.

If you’re unhappy with your romantic life, reexamine your assumptions about it. You will inevitably find that one or more of them is wrong.

Always be careful what you wish for. You might get it.

Cheap terrycloth makes terrible lube.

You’re not interviewing for a job, so don’t treat your dating profile like a resume.

Broken hearts mend.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

As a rule, men are size queens, and women are not.

What you take out of a morally neutral situation is almost always what you brought into it. (Sex is morally neutral.)

Never go spelunking while wearing a lace thong.

Moving in together, or starting a baby, with someone you have not known a *long* time can be asking for trouble.

If size doesn’t matter, why are there no 3″ dildoes?

The person matters.; the genitals don’t. The home-cooked meals don’t really matter, and the sex doesn’t really matter. It’s the connection that counts.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. (Thanks to Marlene Dietrich, and the same must be said for men.)

If you’re not content and happy with your life before you start a relationship, you won’t be content and happy after you start one.

Intelligence is sexy.

A successful relationship contains an endless cycle of wrongs committed, apologies offered, and forgiveness granted, all leavened by laughter, fun, and the occasional orgasm. (This last was borrowed from Dan Savage but modified to make a more accurate–IMO–statement.)