Loved this post by Harry about having to play the conservative as a professor with a class full of liberal students. He promises a post on NCLB. I’m looking forward to it.

Read two posts yesterday about homes. Michael Berube writes about moving into his new home in PA, and Melissa Summers dreams about home renovations. When we moved in here a year ago, I was a home renovation tornado, mostly because I thought that people were going to hold me accountable for the previous owner’s bad taste. “Soooo, wood paneling and flowered wallpaper, Laura? It’s, uh, really nice.” But snobbery segued to sloth, and projects are peetering out. I told Melissa that I had the ugliest bathroom in America and here’s the evidence:

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