I had forgotten all about this.

Stinky Swedes Part N?

It could have been a bomb. The cops were afraid it was a bomb. It wasn't a bomb, although it packed a punch of its own.

Oh, Mizzou:

The University of Missouri is shutting down three dorms next year because of low freshman enrollment, The Maneater reports.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32003/

Compelling new woodcut for the dictionary entry of "ignominious."

(Not sure what I want to have happen with these, but sheesh.)

Interesting thread about media bias (bipartisan, that is) when it comes to parenthood.

http://www.refugees.bratfree.com/read.php?2,415816

It begins with bell flower, who says:

...The short version is, something bad happens TO you in America, or you are missing, and you happen to be a parent or chyyyld, the media will pick up your story. But if you fuck up or do something evil, and you are a parent particularly, parental status is not mentioned.

The latest U.S. example is Tad Cummins, the teacher/predator who abducted a 15 year old girl. They were sighted at a Walmart in Oklahoma City and they are on the run.

If Tad Cummins were killed in an accident or missing under otherwise innocent circumstances, the headlines would be all over his parental status, "Grandfather Missing," "Grandfather Dies in Accident."

But in the current situation, since he's a pervert and kidnapper, he's referred to as a "former teacher." You have to dig for the information on his parental status. I found this article that reveals he has been married 30+ years and has "several" children and grandchildren. This guy also sounds like a nasty piece of work who groomed this girl (who has a troubled home life of course) at church and school...

(snip)

Harvard professor says ADHD is largely a fraud?

(He's only quoted, mind you.)

http://www.rgj.com/story/life/2017/04/04/rosemond-adhd-exist/99999636/

Excerpt:

"...Just to be clear: I am not saying ADHD is over-diagnosed; I am saying it does not exist. It is a fiction. I’ve been saying this since the early 1980s and have been the target, since then, of much professional and parent criticism, even scorn. Russell Barkley, for example, widely regarded as the world’s leading expert on ADHD, equates me with Scientologists and claims that I believe television causes ADHD. He cannot honestly debate me, so he mocks me and distorts what I have actually said.

"Now, Barkley has another psychologist he can mock. This time, however, the psychologist in question is Harvard professor Jerome Kagan, the author of numerous books and research papers on children and child development. I studied Kagan in graduate school. I’m certain Barkley did as well. A peer-ranking of the top 100 psychologists of all time puts Kagan at No. 22.

"In the January 2017 edition of CuriousMindMagazine.com ('Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD Largely a Fraud'), Kagan is quoted as saying that ADHD is 'an invention.' Referring to the drugs used to supposedly treat ADHD, Kagan says that if a drug is available, physicians will use it..."

And, from 2015, on ADHD:

http://www.courant.com/features/hc-curing-adhd-with-diet-20150901-story.html

About ADD:

My wife's son attended an ordinary elementary public school in Florida. She was shocked to find that at the beginning of class, more than half the class lined up to get Ritalin. Of course, this suggests that it was being pushed by school admin and some doctor's office. Speaking to the teacher, she suggested coffee, sending her son to school with it instead of Ritalin. Based on his performance and over the initial protests of one school official (which protests vanished when it was suggested his relationship with the prescribing doctor would be disclosed), the entire class finished the school year with a coffee break at the beginning of class, and no Ritalin.

When you are told your kid, especially an active boy, needs to be drugged to behave, take that with... a grain of salt. And try a cuppa if you have earnestly worked with him and have no solution yet.

Ive got an absurdly (to my bookworm female self) active 7 year old boy. Our treatment? (Aside from huge hours of outdoor time with other neighborhood boys?) Finding "his" sport. Its soccer. He voluntarily practices every day-either with hubs or friends or himself. And twice a week (practice and games) he runs himself silly. Hes actually really good (didnt start that way, but....) but even if he had no skill...its an energy outlet. And eons better than doping a tiny kid. A tired dog is a good dog.