Teachers are teaching. They just aren't teaching American History and Civics. My fifth grader has just had five years of Black History Month, one semester of Texas History, and that's it. I asked the middle school- American History does not come up as a subject until 9th grade. His teacher this year has a reprimand in her file for taking time to draw a timeline of American history on her blackboard when she was supposed to be doing a reading assignment about the south american rainforest ( I am not making this up. It is not a joke. It is a heart-breaking, enraging, true story).

There are supposed to be fifty states with fifty different educational standards, at least, so that some states could advertise their excellence, and people would move there based on the good of their children. People have moved here for a particular private school.

ashes are catholic? really? sorry you have dyspepsia of faith.

as for me and my house, we will wear the ashes of mourning and repentance.

not catholic. not even close. but glad there are catholics who mourn, as well.

I keep asking why we aren't Argentina. I keep hearing that our soldiers are required to study the Constitution. So I doubt that soldiers will confiscate any guns. That's my take on it.

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CreateSpace! On Amazon!
Call Alamo Drafthouse, in Austin! They'll show it!

Myspace it! Facebook it! call radio stations! Don't be afraid!

Send it to blockbuster!

Call Redbox! Good grief! People who rent DVD's are a different audience than movie goers, and totally different than movie critics!

You know how we found American Carol? It was mentioned on a country music station in the morning, just once. It sounded hilarious. Then we found an advert on a movie from the library! It had one copy at Blockbuster! Next to twenty copies of something drecky and mainstream.

Wall- E! The best modern vision of Genesis for kids.
arguably most Pixar films.

For sure, Indiana Jones films- the grail one was all about sons and fathers and fidelity and faith and heroism, for sure.

Where are the Tyler Perry church films? Coarse, rough, harsh, and unapolegetically evangelical. Funny, too.

I'd say Rudy, but I think a film that you can't watch more than once is not a good film.

I'd say Cruel Intentions, since there are debates about goodness in a fallen world. And no sugar-coating the fallen-ness of the characters.

Leap of Faith, of course. Complex, wonderful.

I would say John Hughes oeuvre. Did I spell ouevre right? His characters don't preach, they just go to church and live lives transformed. The kids thought the home alone child going to church and receiving succor was spell-binding.

John Woo films.