On climate change

On climate change: the awful truth.

The cost of words

So far I owe $2.50.

Lies I Have Told My Children

No. 2 in an occasional series.

"Mum, what's this button for?"
"That's the ejector seat."

This is educational

Every day the small guy has to fill out his homework exercise book with a description of the book he's currently reading, and do his spelling words. He's quite a good speller so is allowed to choose his own words from the dictionary: recent choices have included 'critique', 'corrupt', 'pessary', 'muscovado' and 'Freudian'.

Here's a recent homework page featuring a description of a reading book he's really enjoying, the possibly slightly unsuitable S.C.U.M., by Danny Katz.

"I like this book because it has funny bits like a guy sticking a red hot poker up someone's bum.* 

*This is educational because it was by Shakespear."

There you go.

The small guy on Socrates

Socrates: Annoying.

"Mum, you know Socrates? I think he would have been really annoying because when the other philosophers said anything, he'd just go WHY. 

Saying WHY to everything was what his philosophy was about. He died because they made him drink poison, and people were probably quite glad."

And people say that watching TV isn't educational.