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Bored of education
bluebird of bitterness
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Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happinessā¢ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitterā¢, the beer they named for Bob
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bluebird of bitterness 
Those penguins have it right, and I always asked a similar of question as well. Why are we studying THIS?
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I spent sixteen years of my life in school and asked that question pretty much every day…
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Mathematics is probably the most difficult for teachers to justify. The primary reason for that is that the teachers donāt know why they are teaching what they are teaching. Otherwise, they would explain.
The primary thing we need from an education is wisdom. The primary thing we gain from learning science and mathematics is an understanding of the difference between knowledge and magic.
What is knowledge? We use science and mathematics to model cause and effect. We use science and mathematics to model the various ongoing processes that make up our universe. We verify the accuracy of our models (scientific theories and laws) by seeing how well they will predict what happens under laboratory conditions.
The more science and mathematics we know the less likely we are to believe snake oil salesmen. Mathematics requires a basic understanding of logic.
Does knowing science and mathematics make us immune to snake oil salesmen? No. There is much more to wisdom than just having some understanding of science and mathematics.
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Somebody really smart needs to write a book and call it: The Know-It-All’s Guide to Knowing It All. š
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Plato did that a long time ago. His observation was the wise man knows how little he knows.
I am not so wise. I just remember being stuck every day in heavy traffic contemplating the frustrations of being stuck in school. Why am l here?
The more things changeā¦.
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“The wise man knows how little he knows.” Indeed. Which is why I deleted yesterday’s reblog of the post about a former president. I don’t do political discussions on my blog. It’s not good for my PTSD.
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I am sorry you took the post down, but I understand. In today’s environment, yesterday’s environment, and tomorrow’s environment, politics requires a thick skin, and no one actually has such thing.
My problem with the article you linked is that the author tried to justify Carter’s politics. I lived through Carter’s presidency. He was unpopular for good reasons.
There is a difference between being wrong and being evil. Carter did not lie about what he was doing. Carter had the wrong approach to governing, but he was not evil. As president, he just gave life to an old saying.
Unfortunately, some people insist that disagreeing with them makes anyone who disagrees with them evil. That makes any discussion with them quite unpleasant. Instead of a thick skin, it is more realistic to have a proper sense of the source of the problem. That is especially true in an era where the mass media has made everything political.
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In hindsight, I don’t always agree with myself. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t make me evil. š And when it comes to U.S. Presidents… I grew up believing that I am a distant cousin of President Eisenhower, and a descendant of President Tyler. I believed this, because that’s what my mother and my paternal grandmother told me. Then I joined the Ancestry website, had my DNA tested, and discovered that the Eisenhowers on my dad’s side of the family are not related to President Dwight Eisenhower, and the Tylers on my mother’s side of the family are not related to President John Tyler. So…. once again, what I thought I knew, proved untrue. And Plato was right again! š
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Thank you for the link. š
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Great giggles on this Monday! Much needed! Play-dough and the color wheel were my two favorites-they were all funny!
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I use to have occasional nightmares about not doing my homework or not being ready for a test. I forget when the darned things stopped, but there is a point when school doesnāt seem all that important anymore. Was it when I retired? I just donāt know.
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I still have those nightmares, even though I’ve been out of school for almost half a century. Also the one where you know there’s a class you’re signed up for, but you haven’t been there all semester and you’re not sure which classroom it’s in or what time it starts…
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I’ve had those too; they’re horrible!
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I was about to say I’m glad I’m not the only one, but that would mean I was glad you were also having nightmares, which would just be mean… šµāš«
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Lol lol lol! You are the BEST, Bluebird ā¤
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Yes! I understand! I retired from the school system and many nightmares stopped! Lol. Although I miss what matters the most! Itās not homework! š
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Glad you enjoyed them. š
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Play-dough was hilarious! š
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Yes!! š
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Hahaha! All so funny and very true, Blue! š
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