So, I distracted myself from studying for my final to make this post. I’ve been saying for a while that somebody needs to do a greatest hits of current events and history for the former homeschoolers whose parents censored the newspaper/didn’t own a TV/learned all their history from Bob Jones or Abeka and are trying […]
Category Archives: Migrated
Happy 107th Birthday to the late, great, Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. Also, now that Hollywood is finally giving me the Turing biopic that I want, can we get a Hopper biopic? (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
13 Again
I feel like I just found a time machine and was transported two decades back in time. You may have seen that American Prospect came out with an article, “The Homeschool Apostates,” that chronicles some of the people who were hurt by the fundamentalist homeschooling world, and how homeschool graduates are pushing back. It’s a […]
For our next installment in the Vision Forum saga, Peter Bradrick breaks his silence
For those of you who aren’t entirely up to speed, Peter Bradrick is a Vision Forum intern turned executive assistant to Doug Phillips who was so close to Doug that Doug posted the picture below on his blog. You know, the picture that I said looked like a wedding photo. He doesn’t work for Vision […]
Why I don’t support a Black Friday boycott
As a consumer, I hate Black Friday. Hate the crowds, hate the chaos, hate the lines, hate everything about it. As a commissioned retail employee though, I loved Black Friday. Sure, the only time I got food between 6am and 3pm may have been a few bites stolen here and there while hunting for product […]
Squeeee! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Me and the amazing and inspirational @MsIsisKing of #ANTM fame.
I’ve been writing about too many depressing things, so here’s a heartwarming Google ad. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Knew it, Doug Phillips was lawyering his original Vision Forum resignation statement
Posted today: Clarification on Resignation by Douglas Phillips, Esq., November 14, 2013 I would like to express my gratitude for the great kindness so many have shown to my family in the wake of my stepping down as president of Vision Forum Ministries. My family has been greatly encouraged by many loving notes we have […]
In which Kathryn contemplates the possibility of becoming a professional member of the religious right
Why did I have to be such an ethical person? I’d make a pretty darn good professional member of the religious right. I’ve got such a perfect story to sell a ton of books and make it for years on the fundy speaking circuit too. I mean, grew up in conservative homeschool family, did the […]