Lying in class is a good way to make students listen (a fond memory) - thanks Kottke

What IS a kid thinking when he covers himself in Vaseline (OK, OJ’s mom-in-law made it sound worse than it was) — better, I suppose, than covering self with poop.

When the Tsarists are crushed, a dissection of the failures of the Russian failures will clearly show that the breaking of the Black Sea Accord was a key turning point in the Tsarist fortunes.  (Multi-page map of war to date)

Kife, if I’m a father figure, are you expecting me to clean up poop, or is that one of those things that father figures don’t have to do?