Tag: pbs
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Loonette Etcetera
If you have kids of a certain age, you’re probably familiar with things like Barney, Teletubbies, Caillou, Arthur, and some of the other PBS children’s staples from the early part of this century. The kids were always ambivalent about Barney, Teletubbies creeped all of us out (if you haven’t seen the Joy Division/Teletubbies mash-up, you…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. –Franklin D. Roosevelt My wife and I have been devoting time over the past few weeks to watch Ken Burns 14-hour biographical documentary The Roosevelts:…
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Confliciting Information
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/cute-kid-note-of-the-day-no-toking_n_3606177.html A “modern day spiritual” as Lawrence Welk’s singers rhapsodize about a romantic pothead loitering in a railroad station–in what kind of parallel universe did this occur? Somebody should have looked up the word “toke.”