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Sumer Is Icumen In Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger Thank you, I'll be here all week.

I Blame Ishtar The winner of the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2015win.html

Preach It! Originally shared by **** “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happine...

Fly High Pie Christopher Baldwin: "Cedra and I made a pie this week. I made the crust and the yummy apple innards. And then she topped it with art." Christopher Baldwin: http://www.baldwinpage.com Cedra Wood http://cedrawood.com

Bumper Reel Buster Busted. Better than having Sandman Sims get you... Originally shared by ****

Fought Like A Girl Originally shared by Dirk Puehl #onthisday in 1921, the Austro-Hungarian socialite Princess Pauline Clémentine von Metternich, if nothing else famous for fighting the alleged first “emancipated duel” with swords near Vaduz in 1892, died at the age of 85 in Vienna. The Grand Dame of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, rival to fabled and well-beloved Empress Sisi, a patron of the arts, singer of Wagnerian arias, a gossip and winner of the first “emancipated duel” in 1892, ingredients of a story well worth to be told by the fireside of the #wunderkammer ‘s salon, when the lights are low and the brandy rolls heavily in old crystal tumblers. Reading it for yourself on http://wunderkammertales.blogspot.de/2015/09/avert-your-eyes-avert-your-eyes-you.html is the next best choice, of course. And thank you very much, Steven Spence, for reminding me of the story the other day. Depicted below is an early 20th century magazine illustration of the first "emancipated duel" ...

"Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?" Originally shared by Matt McIrvin You can't tell if they're boys or girls, and their music is just noise. https://zompist.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/kids-these-days/

Explaining The Explainer He's Baaaaaack.... http://redkiteprayer.com/2015/09/the-explainer-hes-ba-ack-for-now/

Maroons! Dew neh loh moh is authentic. Matyeryebyets is not. Originally shared by **** A new video surveys people from all around the world to find the best insults on planet Earth. Plus some lesser heralded ones, like 'sister fucker.' But the more interesting aspect of the video is learning about commonalities. People all around the world call each other 'jerks'. And who knew that people in Bogotá, Colombia call each other 'douche' when they don't like the cut of their mutual jibs. We are all the same! Via Fast Company​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nwk6UaLBSo&feature=player_embedded

The Great Dane (Fssh-Putt) #NationalPunctuationDay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzZFuMuMKXI

Antique Neanderthals?

A Grand Day Out Originally shared by Meg L Everyday heroes.  Kees Veldboer and his wife Ineke, a nurse, started Stichting Ambulance Wens at their kitchen table - eight years on it has 230 volunteers, six ambulances and a holiday home, and is fast approaching 7,000 fulfilled wishes. Sometimes wishes are fulfilled the day they are made. On average, the charity helps four people a day - they can be any age and the only stipulation is that patients are terminally ill and can't be transported other than on a stretcher. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34297590

No Fun Being the designated "somebody" in: "Somebody will fix that, later." Later.

Current Status and Location The Brecker Brothers-King Of The Lobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOY0oFxvUY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOY0oFxvUY

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My Heart Beat Like A Hammer My arms wound around you tight, And stars fell on Hochsauerlandkreis last night... Originally shared by David McKeever The Perseids over the Sauerland, Germany, 8-14-2015

What D'ye Do Wi' A Drunken Sailor? Earlie In The Morning... Rapalje-Drunken Sailor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNh-D1wb0bw https://munchies.vice.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-drunken-british-sailors

Schrödinger's Suit Originally shared by Lauren Weinstein Not Onion. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150917/21210132288/texas-attorney-general-sues-self-to-stop-self-releasing-documents-he-says-cant-be-released.shtml

Get Hooked Up Avast, Ye Lubbers! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD)! To Arms! http://www.talklikeapirate.com Originally shared by Scott Krichau Arrrrrg, I need some moar coffeeee. Happy #TalkLikeAPirateDay   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYE17aWU4i4

Internet = Utilitarianism - Civility + Pr0n + Cat Videos http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3857

Book 'Em, Danno! Not worth the paper they're not printed on... Originally shared by Ralf Haring "The council had commissioned the audit from McDonnell Property Analytics, a forensic analyst of mortgage documents. It surveyed assignments from the first half of 2013 involving MERS, which is owned by big banks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." "The Washington State Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Bain v. Metropolitan Mortgage Group found that MERS violated state law by foreclosing on homeowners on behalf of a lender. The court ruled that MERS is not a “lawful beneficiary” because it never held the promissory notes." "In every one of the 195 mortgage assignments reviewed by McDonnell Property Analytics, MERS attempted to transfer legal interests in the mortgage, which the Washington Supreme Court says it does not hold, to another entity." "MERS changed the language it uses in Washington — calling itself the “nominee for the lender” rather than the ben...

Freedom To, and Freedom From Tweedledee , and Tweedledum... "Though our digital technologies have made life super-convenient for us – just tap and it’s yours, whatever it is – maybe it’s time for us to recapture some of the territory we’ve ceded. Time to pull the blinds, exclude the snoops, recapture the notion of privacy. Go offline. Any volunteers? Right. I thought not." Margaret Atwood http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/18/margaret-atwood-we-are-double-plus-unfree

There's One Thing I Want To Know... Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets-(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy3LpV0THB0 As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity... I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? And as I walked on Through troubled times My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes... So where are the strong? And who are the trusted? And where is the harmony? Sweet harmony... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy3LpV0THB0

Greeking In B4 Lingua Franca... Originally shared by Alvin Stearns "It's Greek to me."  A common English idiom to indicate that something is not understandable--a meaning is there, but it is expressed in a confounding language. Two thousand years ago, much of the Near East and Europe understood one language.  Greek.  The Greeks were never just in Greece for very long.  Back then, they traveled to Egypt and set up trading communities.  They created cities along the coast of modern Turkey, from the Levant to the Black Sea.  Being Greek was not a national identity as we think of such things today.  It was a culture, a set of commonly shared ideas.  And it was certainly a language. The Greeks traded with and sometimes fought with everybody in their local Mediterranean world.  The Phoenicians (where they got their alphabet), the Egyptians (where they got many of their later religious ideas and icons), and many many barbarian people.  Who were people too, with lives and cultu...

Hang Up! Every morning just as soon as it's light, Get out of bed and I'm feeling alright. Make me some coffee and I sit down alone... The rest of the day I'm on the telephone. Hang up, hold on, You got a dime so you come on so strong... Save your money and let me be. Hang up the phone and quit bothering me! I got a phone in my bedroom and one in the barn, A phone in my car and one in the yard. A phone on my saddle for when I'm out on the range, A phone in my pocket for when I'm down at the grange. Hang up, hold on, You got a dime so you come on so strong... Save your money and let me be. Hang up the phone and quit bothering me! Now with devaluation all over the land, The whole wide world has got more money in their hand. They'll be calling me up from Peking and Nome, I'm going to rip out my telephone... Arlo Guthrie-Telephone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsiRvv-PA_I Pibgorn: http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2015/09/15

"Where's The Salami?" I heard there would be a Salami... Originally shared by Geo. Tirebiter Back in the day (around 1985) when my daughter was in the first grade. I had to do an emergency pickup because of a tsunami alert. I think it was also because of a quake from Chile. So I got her and took her to the main police station where I was working as an admin sergeant in the Training Division. I explained that I was picking her up early because of a tsunami alert. When we got to the station, I introduced her to everyone in the office then made her do her homework. Then, around the time the tsunami was supposed to hit I took her to the roof helipad and peered over the wall at the seaward direction. The ocean lifted 2 inches. I couldn't tell. I think it was the first burn State Civil Defense gave us in a 30-plus year run of false alarms concerning earthquakes from way the hell east of us. (I think the Chilean tsunami alert announced today will take 15 hours to get to us....

Dairy, Dairy, Me! Originally shared by Meg L "Oh my god, they don't have low fat anything . How the hell am I supposed to stick to my diet in this country?" ~plump, distraught American lady complaining to her Belgian daughter-in-law at our local supermarket How I adore overhearing conversations while grocery shopping, especially when the person speaking in a loud voice is not from around here. The pic on the left shows about a quarter of the cheese counter. The pic on right shows a few of the creams on they have on offer. I remember being completely overwhelmed the first time I had to buy fresh cream for a dessert I was trying. This was a long time ago and my French was as poor as my cooking skills were basic. There was plain crème fraîche, there was crème fraîche épaisse and crème fraîche fermentée, there was crème fraîche liquide or fleurette, and there was the truly evil stuff from Isigny-sur-Mer in Normandy -the jar in the photo on the right. Then there's cream fo...

Because Nobody Holystones The Deck Anymore Originally shared by Doug Savage Not good enough, bandana pirate! http://www.savagechickens.com/2015/09/this-deck-is-filthy.html

RCSU Quotient Rude, Crude, and Socially Unacceptable. Doing my part to set the standard in Standard Deviation. Originally shared by **** When completed, the model could encompass everything from a person's chat-room comments to their performance at work, while the score could be used to determine eligibility for jobs, mortgages, and social services. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3050606/china-is-building-the-mother-of-all-reputation-systems-to-monitor-citizen-behavior

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'Round and Around This World You Go.. Spinnin' through the lives of the people you know... Don McLean-Dreidel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63ri53rv2k Originally shared by ****

Cargo Cult Originally shared by Meg L A history of the pocket. Pockets matter because they’re personal. What we wear at our waists is at least as intimate as what we wear on our wrists, and what we’ve worn there over the centuries tells us a lot about who we are, how we’ve changed, and how we’ve stayed the same. We’re greedy; we’re vain; we’re hungry; we’re late. We want to start fires and listen to a thousand songs. https://medium.com/@dianakimball/close-at-hand-b4331294160d

Southern Nights Allen Toussaint-Southern Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCscZ2tPFmI Have you ever felt a Southern night? Free as a breeze Not to mention the trees Whistling tunes that you know and love so Southern nights Just as good even when closed your eyes I apologize to anyone who can truly say That he has found a better way Feel so good Feel so good It's fright'ning Wish I could Stop this world from fighting La da da da da da la da da da da da da da da Southern skies Have you ever noticed Southern skies? It's precious beauty lies just beyond the eye. It goes running through your soul Like the stories told of old Old man He and his dog that walked the old land Ev'ry flower touched his cold hand As he slowly walked by Weeping willows Would cry for joy Joy Mysteries Like this and many others in the trees Blow in the night In the Southern skies. Southern nights They feel so good it's fright'ning... Wish I could stop this world from fighting La da da d...

Kids In The Candy Store “Have kids changed over these 74 years that you’ve been here?” I ask. “Not really—the kids are still wonderful if they’re approached properly,” she says. “What’s the proper approach?” “Treat them right — be fair with them,” she says. “I try to discourage them from buying too much stuff.” “You’re kidding?” I ask. “That’s what you’re in business for.” “Well I know,” she says. “But I don’t want them to gain too much weight and then blame me.” http://www.wbur.org/2013/11/29/irvings-toy http://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-101-year-old-candy-shop-owner-share-special-bond/

Going Dutch He just wasn’t that interested in his plots, and the reason, he explained, was that he was too interested in his characters, above all the bad guys. In his mind, he said, “I see convicts sitting around talking about a baseball game. I see them as kids. All villains have mothers.” Indeed, he was their mother. He picked out their clothes; he chose their names. (He was a champion namer—this was part of his “ear”: Mr. Woody, Jackie Garbo, Chili Palmer, Cundo Rey. One thug has a tiny little daughter named Farrah.) He gave them girlfriends, ways of speaking, things they liked to eat. And as they were flowering under the beam of his affection—riding around in their stolen cars, discussing their upcoming felonies—he tended to ignore the noncriminal element in his books: the police, the decent citizens, the people who might push the plot forward by preventing or solving the crimes. Regular people, he complained, “don’t talk with any certain sound.” http://www.nybooks.com/articles/ar...

Never Forget How Force Multiplication Works... Originally shared by Jeffrey Zeldman Fourteen years later, isn't it possible to think of 9/11 as a mass grave into which significant aspects of American life as we knew it have been shoveled? http://www.thenation.com/article/14-years-after-911-the-war-on-terror-is-accomplishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would/ http://www.thenation.com/article/14-years-after-911-the-war-on-terror-is-accomplishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would

His Master's Voice by Leonard Cohen After listening to Mozart (which I often did) I would always Carry a piano Up and down Mt. Baldy And I don’t mean A keyboard I mean a full-sized Grand piano Made of cement Now that I am dying I don’t regret A single step. From "The Book of Longing." “I know she is coming, I know she will look, and that is the longing and this is the book.”

The Heron's Nest I have been invited by the most excellent and talented Pat Kight to participate in the #5daynaturechallenge: one nature related photograph a day for five days. Day Five: A heron on soundside overwatch, after a passing thundershower. Also, an online quarterly journal of haiku: http://www.theheronsnest.com The Heron's Nest Award winner for September: "he casts his line into the first peal of thunder" Matthew Caretti Mercersberg, PA

Veering Left Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Well, well, well. Now to see if he leads the UK Labour party to oblivion or invigorate it. "So, he's done it. The 500-1 outsider. The career outsider. The man whose entire time at Westminster has been defined by opposition to his own party. He is now leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition. No one but no one, least of all Jeremy Corbyn, would have predicted this just a few months ago. Whoever said politics was boring? So what on earth does Mr Corbyn's victory mean for the Labour Party?" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-34231943

Digital Serfdom "In a typical week driving his cab, Turizo said he earns $1,500. A typical week for Uber, by contrast, brings in about $300, according to his weekly tally provided by the app." "Many Uber drivers praised the company and the opportunities it provided. Mary Acosta said she drives part time to make ends meet after having lost her corporate job earlier this year. Without Uber, she said, she wouldn't eat." Originally shared by Alex Scrivener Sarasota city commissioners unanimously voted Tuesday to abandon their months-long quest to regulate ride-hailing services such as Uber and, at the same time, decided to strip existing regulations on taxicabs, in a surprise move that animated a standing-room only crowd. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20150908/ARTICLE/150909666/2416/NEWS?p=1&tc=pg

A Widening Gyre

Eyrie I have been invited by the most excellent and talented Pat Kight to participate in the #5daynaturechallenge: one nature related photograph a day for five days. Day Four: A raptor's perch over an abandoned railyard. Look like fun? Feel free to join in...

Much Ado About Nothing Originally shared by **** People quit Twitter, and write about it. They quit watching TV, and write about it. They quit Facebook, and write about it. They quit watching/reading/listening to the news. They quit gluten and sugar and carbs in general and dating and weed and yoga pants and makeup. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/dont-quit-your-day-job/404671/

Pogonology Can Merkin Studies be far behind? http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4227661

Tastes Of Reality The Who-I'm Free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux1vBolJf5Q http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/10/438934607/the-latest-scramble-in-the-egg-industry-mcdonalds-is-going-cage-free

Jobells I have been invited by the most excellent and talented Pat Kight to participate in the #5daynaturechallenge: one nature related photograph a day for five days. Day Three: The story of how Gaillardia ended up all over the Outer Banks. http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news012112.htm Look like fun? Feel free to join in...

Comfort Food "Grams has lived nearly 92 years and if she says she wants a bagel right now at the very end of her life, shouldn’t she get a bagel?" Originally shared by lynn paden sometimes the smallest things make a difference... http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/all-choked-up/

Get It Right The First Time Billy Joel-Get It Right The First Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccdC_EPih2E Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Incentives matter - Chapter 007 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/09/why_drivers_in_china_intentionally_kill_the_pedestrians_they_hit_china_s.html

The Shadow Knows I have been invited by the most excellent and talented Pat Kight to participate in the #5daynaturechallenge: one nature related photograph a day for five days. Day Two: A Spider in the Spotlight. Look like fun? Feel free to join in...

Yellow Peril Originally shared by Will Shetterly James Tiptree Jr. vs. Yi-Fen Chou: on writers whose personas are more "privileged" than they are Read  Sherman Alexie, 'The Best American Poetry 2015,' and Race  by Conor Friedersdorf, especially for Alexie's reasoning for publishing a poem that had been submitted by  Michael Derrick Hudson,  a white man writing as Yi-Fen Chou. Alexie's a smart man and...

Tattered Cover Good. Bumped corner, slightly sunned spine, minor foxing. I hope the new owners make a go of it. Joyce Meskis is one of the good ones: "When I was a kid, I read, read, read, read, read my way through the library," she said. "I was there for story hour. I used to bring home armloads of books, literally. It was escape. It was pleasure, information. It was wandering the world in my mind. It was incredible. I still look at it that way. So I wanted to teach that. I woke up one morning, stared at the ceiling and said, `You idiot, don't you know you've been doing what you love all these years? Why don't you just get on with it?'" http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2001/10/22/story5.html ? http://www.npr.org/2015/09/09/437473687/denvers-tattered-cover-bookstore-is-focused-on-succession-not-just-survival

Things Go Better With Coke http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/09/rider-journal/la-vuelta-with-larry-the-f-word_384261

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It's A Long Way To The Top... If you want to Rock 'n Roll... AC/DC-It's A Long Way To The Top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCs7ijNUVM

What Katy Did I have been invited by the most excellent and talented Pat Kight to participate in the #5daynaturechallenge: one nature related photograph a day for five days. Day One: I found this refugee from cooler weather when I got home from the holiday weekend. Look like fun? Feel free to join in...

#NotRightBBQ "Behold: The Hoffanator!!! It’s a truly sinful combo of french fries topped with mac and cheese, baked beans, pulled pork, ranch dressing, and bbq sauce." Yeccchhh. Perhaps I should admit that I don't believe that spaghetti and chili should co-exist, either... https://www.yahoo.com/travel/50-best-bbq-joints-in-the-country-128074837027.html Oh, pundits... "Don't ask me what I think of you... You might not get the answer that you want me to..." Fleetwood Mac-Oh, Well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b19PcuJsQbA

Galactic Drift

Rise and Shine

The Parting Of The Ways Broke A Halyard... Broke A Halyard... So Nice, We Did It Twice...

Let's Dance David Bowie-Let's Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA Put on your Red Shoes and Dance the Blues...

Before The Mast

Reaching Out Off to the races... Originally shared by ****

Preparation H https://pvcycling.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/just-put-your-head-down-and-everything-will-be-okay/

Tugboat Captain The improbable story of how Sterling Morrison left Velvet Underground for the University of Texas. “Historiographical Perspectives in the Signed Poems of Cynewulf." https://medium.com/@TheAlcalde/what-goes-on-524982f49915

Murder Van, Murder Van... Does whatever a Murder Van can... Originally shared by Alex Scrivener Did you know you cannot buy a white van without proof that you are a predator? #TrueStory   http://www.freerangekids.com/police-report-a-boy-got-into-white-van-you-know-what-that-means/

But Is It Art? Sexting is the taking and sharing of nude or sexually explicit photos by computer or cell phone. While some states have enacted laws to deal specifically with teen sexting, North Carolina has not. In many states, including North Carolina, when sexting involves images of children under the age of 18, it violates state laws against child pornography, and teens can be prosecuted under laws intended to punish adult sex offenders. Although the pictures are illegal, sexual intercourse between 16-year-old teens is not. The age of consent for sexual activity in North Carolina is 16, and it dips younger than that for teens who are less than four years apart. "All manner of abhorrent human behaviors are represented in artwork. That doesn’t make the work, or even the artist, unethical for tackling such subjects." http://blog.art21.org/2010/03/26/the-nonexistence-of-unethical-art/#.VehuQdm9LCQ http://m.fayobserver.com/news/local/nc-law-teens-who-take-nude-selfie-photos-fac...

For The Data Originally shared by Patrice Christian Just do it.  For the data. http://xkcd.com/1572/

No Deposit, No Return "Boycott #ASO for this. They pay us NO money for the race and even damage riders." Oleg Tinkov Another moto incident takes a rider out of contention... http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/09/news/paulinho-out-of-vuelta-after-another-moto-incident_383516

Thunder Lizard Originally shared by David McKeever Cloudzilla spotted over Massachusetts

The Spice Must Flow Originally shared by Richard Stevens http://www.imore.com/comic-spice-must-flow http://www.imore.com/comic-spice-must-flow

Good Morning Jaco Pastorius-Good Morning Anya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4dEK3sXaU

Flight Risk Originally shared by Meg L If this poem by the Somali poet Warsan Shire doesn't rent your heart, then Alex Andreou 's reading of it will. Do listen. I'm still shaking. https://audioboom.com/boos/3532876-home-by-warsan-shire .  you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land no one burns their palms under trains beneath carriages no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled means something more than journey http://seekershub.org/blog/2015/09/home-warsan-shire/

He Sells She Shills... Originally shared by **** The ethics of bots. There’s an ethical gray area that emerges when a company is engineering to take money from its users through sheer deception. It’s one thing to seed for growth or to incentivize user ambassadorship through referral codes — it’s quite another to send bots to 11 million horny men to encourage them to spend on the site. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/09/01/uncanny-fembot-valley/

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Faradayists For Freedom! Because Radiation doesn't just come from A-bombs... Parents Sue School, Claim Wi-Fi Made Son Sick: https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20150831/05305632116/parents-sue-school-claim-wi-fi-made-son-sick.shtml Fortunately for us all, the Gummint has a plan to protect us: http://www.columbiatribune.com/blogs/between_party_lines/state-to-buy-tinfoil-hats-to-combat-common-core/article_3ad6e6c8-998e-11e3-b353-001a4bcf6878.html via Alex Scrivener

Late Summer

Common Knowledge Not available in all areas. Other terms and conditions may apply. Originally shared by Tim O'Brien