poetry hour

I'm kind of suspicious of home schooling.  Maybe your niece did well and good with it, but  I suspect a lot of kids and their parents just fuck off with it. And even if people do right by it the socialist in me doesn't like it.  I like for everybody to have a common experience.  And I don't know why people think public schools are so bad.  I went to them, I substituted in them, kids learned, and kids socialized too.  It was fine.  How could Beagles have ever had the enlightening experience of The Blue Jeans Incident if he had not attended public schools?  I guess religious schools are okay too, as long as they don't go too heavy on the religion.  The important thing is to have a common experience with your peers.

Da Mooch is Scaramucci, Trump's new communications director, whatever that means, mostly it meant blowing off his mouth in a wild two day spree, but grown strangely silent of late.  Sandy Hook is that school in the east where a nutty kid killed a bunch of little kids, and that guy, I remember his name now, Alex Jones, claimed that the whole thing was faked in order to give guns a bad name.

If Beagles isn't interested in the Russian investigations he doesn't have to watch them.  I got  the impression when he was speaking of them earlier he was saying they should stop them because they hadn't announced any findings lately.


Speaking again of home schooling another thing I don't like is maybe the home schooled or schooler will ignore certain subjects because they are not interested in them.  One of the theories of education is that we live in a democracy and will be casting votes and thus have an obligation to be well informed.

I would never have studied poetry if they hadn't made me in college, but I'm glad they did, and I am even glad that they made me memorize poems which at the time I thought was oppressive.  Perhaps the next time Old Dog attends a seminar he can hear me recite.  Well it's a thought.  I do indeed have a fondness for William Butler (Yates),  allow me to recommend The Song of the Wandering Aengus, and the Lake Isle Innisfree.

Does Old Dog recommend Buckaroo Banzai?  And what is the reference?  Is it wherever you go, there you are?  It seems like I heard that phrase before 1984, but maybe not.