Hey Bro BIll. The question of what to get a person that has everything... At least everything that I could get you, anyway. You wouldn't want aything else that I could get you so you may have to settle for this. But we worked pretty hard to post this on time, even tho it was late. So I hope you saw it on your Bday but maybe you didn't. That wouldn't be the first time in this family there was a late Bday present, hahaha.
I got you the golf ball that says St. Andrews on it. It was like a ten dollar golf ball, not that I am complaining about spending ten bucks on your birthday but the exchange rate made it so that a bottle of water was five bucks. Yikes that was why I had to stay in the Hostel from hades. Or the Hostel fro HE double toothpicks then applied the exchange rate.
Anyway, to get you your ball we are hoping to catch you up in WA before you move because otherwise we don't know when we'll get together, as I don't know when I am going to AZ next. I have a high school reunion in August bt I don't know if I'll be able to get to that. I'd like to we'll see. Also, maybe you and D and the Morgans can meet in one of the cities that you travel to on business? We have been wanting to do some travelling lately.
And travel is actually a good thing in my opinion to do with extended family because we are just hanging out anyway so it might as well be with other members of the family so we can get some socializing out of the way. And if it is one of the places that you have been working in a lot maybe you can show us around. Was one of the places Georgia? I like the idea of that but perhaps not this time of year.
Anyway, that sounds fun so maybe you can mull it over? If it is a cool place to take the kids I would like to bring them all. My kids luckily are not very hard to be around these days. I remember your kids used to say AHHH CHILDREN when we came over and just to let anyone who has ragged nerves know that even though they were never really that bad as kids go, they have transitioned into sullen adolescents now so they are pretty easy to be around. Not noisy or badly behaved. They were never really yellers but any that they did I stamped out of them. And they never did those things that some kids do like getting into other people's belongings or making messes for fun. In fact now that I think about it they just plain didn't do those things that most kids do that are very annoying. I was and AM very lucky. And they all LOVE uncle Bill. They say OOOH, he's cool! And Arthur Chain and Drain remember a few of the pretty funny things that you did when we wer together last. And Sadie can tell when a big guy has a soft spot for a little girl.
Hope you like the song, anyway. I wish it could have been better, but maybe next year.
Hee hee, isn't that puppy sitting on slade's lap funny? Bulldogs don't like being picked up, they thrash around like a puppyfish. But Slade isn't to be deterred, he loves this dog, it surprises him more and more every day. He actually likes it when the gog goes in in the morning and wakes him up, and he never likes it when any of US wake him up!
BTW, can Dorothy or Jape or mom whoever that sees this and talks to Bill make sure that he sees this? I didn't get it up until late on his Bday an I don't know whether he ever saw it.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Super subjectivity
Yikes that was too long. Moved to vonmorganstone my blog graveyard. Where I always put things that I think I am going to revise but am not getting around to it. I have written almost two hundred articles in the past six months so I just don't find the time to spruce up the crazy stuff I come up with here.
But this has always been something I wanted to write up. I have always had a problem with 'I feel good about it.' Not that I am picking on the Church. I don't think that it is necessarily a church problem, but has evolved separately as many of the cultural Mormon things have.
"I feel good about it" seems to have roots in our view that personal revelation is a window that's open to us if we want to use it. The burning in the B thing has been a big key to missionary conversion and is used as a metaphor for the bigger question of knowing whether something is right, though I am not sure it really works that way. Just because the Moroni promise exists about the BofM doesn't mean people can in more broad ways go around just knowing things without actual evidence.
But that doesn't stop them, and it really encourages a sense of antiintellectualism on the one hand and a claim to superiority on the other that tends to offend people kind of bad. There was a teacher I had at BYU that went inactive because of this. Like of course I have a red phone to God so that I can just always know whether something is true or not, are you still working on that, what a pedestrian you must be in the gospel.
So anyway I tend to go off on this without a lot of structure, but once people abandon things like actual reason and evidence to base their beliefs on and decisions instead use a mystical epistemology like feeling good about something or elevating various impressions they might have one way or the other it can result in some fairly serious self justification.
Justification of fairly silly things on the one hand of basically just people spending their lives doing just what they want to do and that's all to people skating by with some pretty serious sin. There is very little that can't be excused if the only thing people are concerned about is how they feel about things, which tends to in many cases just fine about sin, unfortunately.
A few examples. I think there was a story about someone in the family who was in the Bishopric and someone told them that they felt inspired to invest their ten percent tithing that year instead because he figured that God would have given the money back to him anyway. We tend to think that God is always worried about the mineutia of our finances, I suppose.
Also there was that lovely story about that guy in our ward in Wymount Terrace who stole Slade's motorcycle. Actually it wasn't stolen but technically it wasn't being watched like we thought it was over the summer so someone appropriated it legally under the abandonment laws. The GUY KNEW IT WAS SLADE'S BIKE AND THAT WE WERE JUST AWAY FOR THE SUMMER so he appropriated it like it had been abandoned.
This was a guy IN OUR WARD who knew that this was Slade's bike and that we were coming back but he said that because he talked to the Bishop about it and that he was within his legal rights to claim our property as his own BECAUSE HE FELT OK ABOUT IT.
Sometimes it is really a wonder that anyone ever leaves Utah County a believing member of the church with that kind of thing going on. Seriously he felt ok about taking our bike because legally he was within his rights. And he threw in that he felt ok about it because HE NEEDED A WAY TO GET TO WORK AND HE FELT THAT GOD WAS TELLING HIM THAT HE COULD DO THIS FOR HIS OWN FINANCIAL NEEDS. Apparently God cared more about him getting to work than protecting the only vehicle that Slade ever owned before he was twenty two years old from legally protected theft.
We were even more horrified when we realized that everybody in the entire ward knew about it too, you could tell by the looks on their faces as they walked by when we had the cop called there as if the cop could have done anything in the face of that. They watched him take the bike file for an abandoned title, strip the nice paint job that Slade had done and paint it with pink florescent house paint (that we couldn't figure out why he did, because it wasn't like we wouldn't recognize it but it certainly was no improvement).
When people are only concerned about how they feel about things there is really no limits to how low they will sink and still feel fine about it. GOOD even. There is sometimes the idea that there will be something like guilt or a conscience if we are really doing something wrong and we can just go ahead and sky's the limit do what we want to do but we know how rare that is in other people to all of a sudden become burdened with guilt at their behavior so they should't be too confident it will kick in in their own case. In fact it won't; guilt is a myth. The whole point of the natural man thing in the Book of Mormon is to remind us that we don't always come naturally to feeling the right way about good and evil, it is acquired and requires requesting a chance of heart. And it won't be acquired if we just stick to whether we feel ok about things the way it happens naturally.
But this has always been something I wanted to write up. I have always had a problem with 'I feel good about it.' Not that I am picking on the Church. I don't think that it is necessarily a church problem, but has evolved separately as many of the cultural Mormon things have.
"I feel good about it" seems to have roots in our view that personal revelation is a window that's open to us if we want to use it. The burning in the B thing has been a big key to missionary conversion and is used as a metaphor for the bigger question of knowing whether something is right, though I am not sure it really works that way. Just because the Moroni promise exists about the BofM doesn't mean people can in more broad ways go around just knowing things without actual evidence.
But that doesn't stop them, and it really encourages a sense of antiintellectualism on the one hand and a claim to superiority on the other that tends to offend people kind of bad. There was a teacher I had at BYU that went inactive because of this. Like of course I have a red phone to God so that I can just always know whether something is true or not, are you still working on that, what a pedestrian you must be in the gospel.
So anyway I tend to go off on this without a lot of structure, but once people abandon things like actual reason and evidence to base their beliefs on and decisions instead use a mystical epistemology like feeling good about something or elevating various impressions they might have one way or the other it can result in some fairly serious self justification.
Justification of fairly silly things on the one hand of basically just people spending their lives doing just what they want to do and that's all to people skating by with some pretty serious sin. There is very little that can't be excused if the only thing people are concerned about is how they feel about things, which tends to in many cases just fine about sin, unfortunately.
A few examples. I think there was a story about someone in the family who was in the Bishopric and someone told them that they felt inspired to invest their ten percent tithing that year instead because he figured that God would have given the money back to him anyway. We tend to think that God is always worried about the mineutia of our finances, I suppose.
Also there was that lovely story about that guy in our ward in Wymount Terrace who stole Slade's motorcycle. Actually it wasn't stolen but technically it wasn't being watched like we thought it was over the summer so someone appropriated it legally under the abandonment laws. The GUY KNEW IT WAS SLADE'S BIKE AND THAT WE WERE JUST AWAY FOR THE SUMMER so he appropriated it like it had been abandoned.
This was a guy IN OUR WARD who knew that this was Slade's bike and that we were coming back but he said that because he talked to the Bishop about it and that he was within his legal rights to claim our property as his own BECAUSE HE FELT OK ABOUT IT.
Sometimes it is really a wonder that anyone ever leaves Utah County a believing member of the church with that kind of thing going on. Seriously he felt ok about taking our bike because legally he was within his rights. And he threw in that he felt ok about it because HE NEEDED A WAY TO GET TO WORK AND HE FELT THAT GOD WAS TELLING HIM THAT HE COULD DO THIS FOR HIS OWN FINANCIAL NEEDS. Apparently God cared more about him getting to work than protecting the only vehicle that Slade ever owned before he was twenty two years old from legally protected theft.
We were even more horrified when we realized that everybody in the entire ward knew about it too, you could tell by the looks on their faces as they walked by when we had the cop called there as if the cop could have done anything in the face of that. They watched him take the bike file for an abandoned title, strip the nice paint job that Slade had done and paint it with pink florescent house paint (that we couldn't figure out why he did, because it wasn't like we wouldn't recognize it but it certainly was no improvement).
When people are only concerned about how they feel about things there is really no limits to how low they will sink and still feel fine about it. GOOD even. There is sometimes the idea that there will be something like guilt or a conscience if we are really doing something wrong and we can just go ahead and sky's the limit do what we want to do but we know how rare that is in other people to all of a sudden become burdened with guilt at their behavior so they should't be too confident it will kick in in their own case. In fact it won't; guilt is a myth. The whole point of the natural man thing in the Book of Mormon is to remind us that we don't always come naturally to feeling the right way about good and evil, it is acquired and requires requesting a chance of heart. And it won't be acquired if we just stick to whether we feel ok about things the way it happens naturally.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Band and dance
I am going to post the videos for this hopefully Sunday and so am posting now just because I want to force myself to get around to it. Will put the vids on later so check back.
Archer's band was totally awesome. They ended doing Iron Man by Black Sabbath. I would have thought that it was a bit dark for a talent show in a fifth grade honors class. But it went off pretty well. Archer's sunniess actualy went well with it. I also think they chose it because the kid who organizd the band is REALLY GOOD on electric guitar.
Archer did really good modulating the key to his range. Actually it sounded better than the original in my opinion they way they did the melody.
Chase is going to have to beef up his contribution because I don't really think Ukelele worked in this arrangement. We will have to consider getting him a base guitar or something if they get serious about it, which of course I am encouraging though I am not sure psychadelic rocker music is going to be their thing, at least I hope not.
Also Sadie had her tap class recital on Sunday and Drake had a band concert so I will post a few of those clips hopefully if you can bear with my self indulgent proud parent type of post.
I wasnt THAT proud of Sadie because she all of a sudden the day of the dress rehearsal let me know that she couldn't find any tap shoes except two right shoes of different sizes. I had bought a bunch from a thrift store once so I bought them thinking that would save having to spend tons of money on new ones, though I almost went out and plunked down today because I was so embarrassed.
Good thing her costume was this fake raincoat and boots thing. Silly costume but it is pretty easy to have it look cute when it is a bunch of tap dancing girls.
Archer agreed to let me put him in a dance class next year and that will be a good time. He will be perfect. Like the boy version of Shirley Temple at least with the attitude.
Archer's band was totally awesome. They ended doing Iron Man by Black Sabbath. I would have thought that it was a bit dark for a talent show in a fifth grade honors class. But it went off pretty well. Archer's sunniess actualy went well with it. I also think they chose it because the kid who organizd the band is REALLY GOOD on electric guitar.
Archer did really good modulating the key to his range. Actually it sounded better than the original in my opinion they way they did the melody.
Chase is going to have to beef up his contribution because I don't really think Ukelele worked in this arrangement. We will have to consider getting him a base guitar or something if they get serious about it, which of course I am encouraging though I am not sure psychadelic rocker music is going to be their thing, at least I hope not.
Also Sadie had her tap class recital on Sunday and Drake had a band concert so I will post a few of those clips hopefully if you can bear with my self indulgent proud parent type of post.
I wasnt THAT proud of Sadie because she all of a sudden the day of the dress rehearsal let me know that she couldn't find any tap shoes except two right shoes of different sizes. I had bought a bunch from a thrift store once so I bought them thinking that would save having to spend tons of money on new ones, though I almost went out and plunked down today because I was so embarrassed.
Good thing her costume was this fake raincoat and boots thing. Silly costume but it is pretty easy to have it look cute when it is a bunch of tap dancing girls.
Archer agreed to let me put him in a dance class next year and that will be a good time. He will be perfect. Like the boy version of Shirley Temple at least with the attitude.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
The King Kong syndrome
Just one of my silly writing projects to keep me out of trouble. Contests at Helium are off for the summer dang it and I needed to write about fifty extra pages to compensate.
I have been thinking about how I wanted to use something from pop culture to use as a moral allegory, initially for one of my talks a while back but then expanded from there because someone said it was interesting that heard my talk. I probably gave about five talks worth in that talk, it was fairly terse.
Please note, any of you that actually read these long boys, which is probably not many of you and I understand: I am not particularly obsessive or anything about these topics that I go into, it isn't why I write these things. I never care about things as much as it seems like I do from writing these.
I am certainly not on a soap box about good and evil or religion or heaven forbid politics or any of these topics I go off about, that might actually be important to clarify lest any of you think I am nutso. These things for me are just writing exercises.
I am a writer, not really a moralist, theologian or philosopher or politician or nutritionist or whatever else. I would say that I AM a linguist and I am, I am even a historian of sorts but that isn't really why I write about linguistics or history. I think that most of my posts are weird just like any of you would. But I like to do things just like some people try to climb mountains. It is a silly thing to do but I just wonder if I can so I try.
Writing things like this one to me is a fun challenge but hard - coming up with something unusual like a moral allegory that doesn't make someone sick it is so forced or totally absurd is VERY difficult, even if it doesn't seem like it would be. Because most original writing that makes it to the public sphere comes off as not looking hard, hence it gets published. But most of it is not really that ambitious in that it doesn't try to do something that hasn't been done. Consider how hard it is to say somthing unique in SS without it sounding silly. And that is just in a simple comment. Most things have either been said before or make no sense. Slade says that I am pretty good at saying things that he hasn't heard before, and he has heard most things, so even though I need a lot of work polishing it that's probably a good skill to have.
Also I need an outlet to do things that wouldn't get published elsewhere. I just sold an article on parenting tips for parents of multiples, but that is pretty boring. I can hardly stand writing in that 'Ladies Home Journal' voice except probably most marketable things are that way.
But anyway, it is in my random thoughts blog. If you dare. You need to be pretty bored.
I have been thinking about how I wanted to use something from pop culture to use as a moral allegory, initially for one of my talks a while back but then expanded from there because someone said it was interesting that heard my talk. I probably gave about five talks worth in that talk, it was fairly terse.
Please note, any of you that actually read these long boys, which is probably not many of you and I understand: I am not particularly obsessive or anything about these topics that I go into, it isn't why I write these things. I never care about things as much as it seems like I do from writing these.
I am certainly not on a soap box about good and evil or religion or heaven forbid politics or any of these topics I go off about, that might actually be important to clarify lest any of you think I am nutso. These things for me are just writing exercises.
I am a writer, not really a moralist, theologian or philosopher or politician or nutritionist or whatever else. I would say that I AM a linguist and I am, I am even a historian of sorts but that isn't really why I write about linguistics or history. I think that most of my posts are weird just like any of you would. But I like to do things just like some people try to climb mountains. It is a silly thing to do but I just wonder if I can so I try.
Writing things like this one to me is a fun challenge but hard - coming up with something unusual like a moral allegory that doesn't make someone sick it is so forced or totally absurd is VERY difficult, even if it doesn't seem like it would be. Because most original writing that makes it to the public sphere comes off as not looking hard, hence it gets published. But most of it is not really that ambitious in that it doesn't try to do something that hasn't been done. Consider how hard it is to say somthing unique in SS without it sounding silly. And that is just in a simple comment. Most things have either been said before or make no sense. Slade says that I am pretty good at saying things that he hasn't heard before, and he has heard most things, so even though I need a lot of work polishing it that's probably a good skill to have.
Also I need an outlet to do things that wouldn't get published elsewhere. I just sold an article on parenting tips for parents of multiples, but that is pretty boring. I can hardly stand writing in that 'Ladies Home Journal' voice except probably most marketable things are that way.
But anyway, it is in my random thoughts blog. If you dare. You need to be pretty bored.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Guard dog duty
Harry's favorite thing to do is get up and guard Slade while he's still sleeping.
The best.
Of course he doesn't usually guard me because I am never sleeping, at least in bed. I am probably sleeping while making breakfast.
Just occurred to me that I don't know for sure if you can see that but that is Slade sleeping there under Harry. Harry always loves to rest his giant head on things, which JPH and family, do you remember when BO rested his head on that bar under the dining table?
I told Slade about that when we met and he has always joked that I am like a bulldog because I have a huge head and he always says I am resting my giant head, etc.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Request to barbershop relatives/ music fans
Hey Isaac and John (and of course anyone who knows about this).
You both did barbershop as I remember. Isaac I am sure you did and John I think you did some kind of a capella group in college.
I am thinking of trying to teach my kids a few barbershop numbers because I would really like them to start learning how to read/pick out harmony parts. I think they have fairly good ears for it and it is just a matter of training to not just do what comes naturally for them and track the melody.
Do either/any of you have suggestions about it, or any good music that you could send me? I am looking to find something obviously entry level because for this barbershop group I will obviously be working with my children, and to make up for whatever natural talent they might have we are compensating for some pretty bad attitudes and averseness to anything that seems like work.
It is amazing how different in that regard, too. Drake has an amazing ability for work and will stay on task as long as need be... Unless we are talking about something other than he wants to do and then no dice.
And the preferences are so different. I am having them do musical theater camp this summer because I figure at the very least I should try to have them develop these skills if they have them. And I am sure they won't be actors nor do I want them to but theater is VERY good for poise, in fact I owe any and all to my confidence in public speaking to it because when I first started I was horrendously stage frightened at any performance or audition.
Chase said: Oh man, theater camp.
Drake said: Oh, man theater camp... You are ruining my life mom.
Archer said: Wow, theater camp! That sounds GREAT! (beaming that Archer beam).
And I think there is at least some critical period, not that they are destined for greatness, just the basic functional level. I had a good ear and could act when I was a kid but I had little training so by the time I discovered I was interested it was a bit too late to catch up with the girls who were Shirley Templeized pretty young. And I had almost no dance or sports or physical activity at all... (was probably a couch 'spud')
It was funny to me, though, that despite privilege and attempts to cultivate certain skills, there wasn't really ever enough to overcome physiological endowments or the lack of.
Just like if I had been born to Tiger Woods' dad and it would have been totally hopeless (I am the worlds' most clumsy person in the universe and can barely operate a vacuum with precision let a lone an instrument that is supposed to hit a ball somehow), there were some people that had the training since they were little and it did no good.
There was one girl in my high school acting troupe, (she changed her name from Heidi to Justine because I think she was planning on needing a screen name as early as thirteen), that thought that she was going to take the world by storm as a professional actress, but she was completely 100 percent tone deaf. I made sure to always be there when she auditioned for the annual musical because she tried really hard and had a boatload of confidence to keep at it year after year and do daring Marilyn Monroe numbers for auditions and all of that, but I had a feeling that as much as she was the school's best hope for a Merril Streep or whatever, they were afraid to even put her in the chorus.
Anywho, I am trying to whip these bad boys into shape, and Slade agrees that barbershop might be a fun new family focus for all of us, so if either of you knows some pieces, has some good CD's to recommend or whatever you have to fire at me while I get started, shoot.
Specific technical question about barbershop: which part traditionally sings the melody, and does it matter for any reason? I have written a few simple arrangements if I don't get any better ideas but they don't sound QUITE right, so I don't know if there are things that I don't know.
It is strange because I will need to sing the TENOR (by which I mean second for the bottom) and melody, though I am not sure these are always the same, even though it would be much easier if I sang one of the trickier parts. Because I am the only one that sings tenor in the family. Yet. Drake might get there in a few years, I am not sure Slade has a shot at it though.
Thanks again to anyone who responds.
You both did barbershop as I remember. Isaac I am sure you did and John I think you did some kind of a capella group in college.
I am thinking of trying to teach my kids a few barbershop numbers because I would really like them to start learning how to read/pick out harmony parts. I think they have fairly good ears for it and it is just a matter of training to not just do what comes naturally for them and track the melody.
Do either/any of you have suggestions about it, or any good music that you could send me? I am looking to find something obviously entry level because for this barbershop group I will obviously be working with my children, and to make up for whatever natural talent they might have we are compensating for some pretty bad attitudes and averseness to anything that seems like work.
It is amazing how different in that regard, too. Drake has an amazing ability for work and will stay on task as long as need be... Unless we are talking about something other than he wants to do and then no dice.
And the preferences are so different. I am having them do musical theater camp this summer because I figure at the very least I should try to have them develop these skills if they have them. And I am sure they won't be actors nor do I want them to but theater is VERY good for poise, in fact I owe any and all to my confidence in public speaking to it because when I first started I was horrendously stage frightened at any performance or audition.
Chase said: Oh man, theater camp.
Drake said: Oh, man theater camp... You are ruining my life mom.
Archer said: Wow, theater camp! That sounds GREAT! (beaming that Archer beam).
And I think there is at least some critical period, not that they are destined for greatness, just the basic functional level. I had a good ear and could act when I was a kid but I had little training so by the time I discovered I was interested it was a bit too late to catch up with the girls who were Shirley Templeized pretty young. And I had almost no dance or sports or physical activity at all... (was probably a couch 'spud')
It was funny to me, though, that despite privilege and attempts to cultivate certain skills, there wasn't really ever enough to overcome physiological endowments or the lack of.
Just like if I had been born to Tiger Woods' dad and it would have been totally hopeless (I am the worlds' most clumsy person in the universe and can barely operate a vacuum with precision let a lone an instrument that is supposed to hit a ball somehow), there were some people that had the training since they were little and it did no good.
There was one girl in my high school acting troupe, (she changed her name from Heidi to Justine because I think she was planning on needing a screen name as early as thirteen), that thought that she was going to take the world by storm as a professional actress, but she was completely 100 percent tone deaf. I made sure to always be there when she auditioned for the annual musical because she tried really hard and had a boatload of confidence to keep at it year after year and do daring Marilyn Monroe numbers for auditions and all of that, but I had a feeling that as much as she was the school's best hope for a Merril Streep or whatever, they were afraid to even put her in the chorus.
Anywho, I am trying to whip these bad boys into shape, and Slade agrees that barbershop might be a fun new family focus for all of us, so if either of you knows some pieces, has some good CD's to recommend or whatever you have to fire at me while I get started, shoot.
Specific technical question about barbershop: which part traditionally sings the melody, and does it matter for any reason? I have written a few simple arrangements if I don't get any better ideas but they don't sound QUITE right, so I don't know if there are things that I don't know.
It is strange because I will need to sing the TENOR (by which I mean second for the bottom) and melody, though I am not sure these are always the same, even though it would be much easier if I sang one of the trickier parts. Because I am the only one that sings tenor in the family. Yet. Drake might get there in a few years, I am not sure Slade has a shot at it though.
Thanks again to anyone who responds.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Tell me if this sounds creepy
I am thinking of accepting a job as a paid forum poster.
It sounds kind of weird at first but when I crunched the numbers at the rate that I can post stuff (by the way they calculate payment) I will actually be paid pretty good money for the kind of stuff I do all the time anyway.
I am mainly trying to get a feedback profile on this one freelancing site, and this seemed like one of the easier ones.
It is only going to be on parenting issues, not some of the ones that have an agenda like how great Communist China is (seriously, the chicoms pay Americans to post stuff on blogs and forums favorable to them) so I figure I won't be actually pulling the wool over anyone's eyes at least in spirit, I will make it seem like I am actually trying to contribute to discussions, or I won't do it.
It sounds kind of weird at first but when I crunched the numbers at the rate that I can post stuff (by the way they calculate payment) I will actually be paid pretty good money for the kind of stuff I do all the time anyway.
I am mainly trying to get a feedback profile on this one freelancing site, and this seemed like one of the easier ones.
It is only going to be on parenting issues, not some of the ones that have an agenda like how great Communist China is (seriously, the chicoms pay Americans to post stuff on blogs and forums favorable to them) so I figure I won't be actually pulling the wool over anyone's eyes at least in spirit, I will make it seem like I am actually trying to contribute to discussions, or I won't do it.
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