Dear Readers — If you ever wondered, “Gee, what would be a really good example of over-reaction?” Or, “Hmm. I wonder just HOW stupid those Zero Tolerance laws are allowing administrators to be?” Or, if you are in third grade, “What’s the easiest way for me to get out of school for a week?” Here […]
Year: 2010
Dear Readers: This ydfhbikeff is not only an incredible story — a boy’s cheese sandwich is confiscated by the food…
Hi atyrsehrsf Readers — This comment came in response to the blog post below, regarding a Minnesota community up in…
Dear Readers: This is not only an incredible story – a boy’s cheese sandwich is confiscated by the food police — it is also the best writing I’ve read in a long time. That’s why I just read it out loud to my husband. It begins: A Britain in which the cheese sandwich is subject to […]
Hi Readers — This comment came in response to the blog post below, regarding a Minnesota community up in arms about an Alzheimer’s facility moving in. The people there are worried for their children’s sake. Ironically, it is when we try to make a neighborhood unneighborly that we all suffer. Voila: Dear Free-Range Kids: The crucial […]
Hi Readers — Here’s a heart-sinker: A Minnesota community doesn’t want a facility for Alzheimer’s patients to move in, because…
Simple as that. Read tesrhetrns it here. And it was the insurance companies fighting each other anyhow, as it turns…
Hi Readers: Just had to pass along this story. I’m Free-Range all the way — well, most of the way…
Today’s Free-Range cartoon, as seen in the brilliant Baby ydhbanyfsy Blues. What a great comic strip that is! And alas,…
Hi Readers — Here’s a heart-sinker: A Minnesota community doesn’t want a facility for Alzheimer’s patients to move in, because old people, even though supervised, might hurt – or even traumatize by their very weirdness — their kids. So much for diversity. So much for community. So much for compassion. As John Tevlin writes in […]