When I set out to watch Homeschool Dropouts: Why the Second Generation is Now Headed for a Spiritual Wasteland, I was very excited, to say the least. I'd been anxiously anticipating the documentary's release, as I thought I knew a lot of people that I considered potential homeschool dropouts, and homeschoolers who had already dropped out, from people who were violently opposed to the choices their parents had made for their upbringing to people who were simply apathetic to their rearing in general. I was anxious to pass it along to others, people I thought needed to see it.

Anyone who was raised in the prison-like system of government schooling knows that history is a boring mass of confused, causeless, and meaningless names and dates. History has been made practically irrelevant. That generations of American minds have been laid waste by this idea is not accidental. At the end of the 19th century, a group of committed men determined that history must go. Here is why.

Once again, James Cameron has created the world's most expensive movie. What purpose did he think would make it worth its reputed $500,000,000 budget? Does it actually re-invent cinematic storytelling, or is it just thinly-veiled propaganda from one of Hollywood's most successful directors?

Our children say some of their favorite family memories are the days we spend in the woods, as a family, cutting and gathering wood for the family hearth. This year my youngest son finds himself, with his family, in a climate cold enough for warm winter fires. It’s time for him to master the efficiencies of chainsaw technology. He needs a good saw.