Like Encouragement And Gratitude, But Spendable
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For newcomers wishing to know more about what’s been going on here for the last eighteen years, in over 3,000 posts and 200,000 comments, the Reheated series is a pretty good place to start – in particular, the end-of-year summaries, which convey the fullest flavour of what it is we do. A sort of blog concentrate. If you like what you find there… well, there’s lots more of that.
Do take a moment to poke through the discussion threads too. The posts are intended as starting points, not full stops, and the comments are where much of the good stuff is waiting to be found. And do please join in.
As always, thanks for the support, the comments, and the company.
Oh, and consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
The same people bunch who claim human puberty can be turned off and back on like a light switch also thought a national economy could be flipped off and then back on like a lightbulb, and before that, that the planet’s temperature (whatever the heck that is) could be controlled like a thermostat with carbon dioxide from western developed countries only. This kind of thinking is not new; magical thinking has always been popular.
Why Johnny still can’t read: It’s strange enough that academics could be stupid enough to peddle the Whole Language theory of reading, but what’s even stranger is that so many would embrace it. Utter bullshit. Unsupported by the evidence. And yet it has dominated and ruined education for decades.