It's a long story, but once my husband and I were in a conference with our son's middle school principal. And during the conversation my husband said, "It is the school's main job to educate our children." And the principal responded, "no. It is the school's main job to SOCIALIZE the children."

Shortly thereafter we moved our children into a home/charter school.

There's a saying, and I swear my grandpa always used to say, "when you know an idiot, you use his name. But if he's beyond an idiot and past nicompoopery, then you say he's a 'Joe Biden.'"

After doing a search I see "Chips, the Wardog" was a 1990 Disney flick. (I don't remember it at all.)

There were lots of actual events that could be added to the background characters. Like the Marine who wrote to the 13 year old Montana girl owner of "his" dog four times before going into combat. When the dog was killed during the Guam assault she never wrote again. Or the once deriding Marines who would dig a foxhole for a dog handler just so they could sleep better (knowing the dog was watching nearby.)
Even if you don't want to write a screen play, look for this documentary. It was fascinating.

Last night my husband and I watched "War Dogs of the Pacific" on the Military Channel. It was a documentary about the families during WWII who "loaned" their pet dogs to the military and the soldiers who were their trainers. After it was over I turned to my husband and said, "THAT would make a great movie." And although I am a writer, I am not a script writer. So here is an idea for someone (on this site) who is. The protagonist could be a fictional (or composite) marine who gets into the program by accident. He gets a mixed breed dog (from a family we see in the first shot getting the puppy.) The dog handlers are looked down on by the other Marines, but after saving them (alerting by pointing a sniper in a tree--or maybe the dog alerts, the commanding officer dismisses it so the soldier volunteers to go ahead and he finds the enemy?) the other soldiers gradually begin to realize what an asset a dog and handler are to a unit. After the war, the man wants to keep the dog, but the owners say no. Then the kids decide he is no longer their dog and he is returned.

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(My Robin Hood Toon)

"The Lady Eve" is one of my all time favorite movies. I'll have to look for this one.

Elf needed a better editor--and some rewrites. (Bob Newhart is pretty good, though.)

Picking a fight with a popular satirical host of his OWN SHOW? Geez, DeSede isn't just inept, he's insane.

Monk (and other "cable" shows) have eclipsed the network 3 (4, if you count FOX) as better television. Sy-fy (or whatever they changed their logo to) has excellent shows as well. I cannot think of a show on network that we watch as faithfully as Monk (or psyche.)

I will miss it. (But I will be buying the DVD's of all the seasons.)