A few days ago I wrote, “This is probably the dumbest thing the Washington Post Online could have done from a long-term business perspective. First the whole Red State/Blue State meme is on the way out. Second, giving voice to one of the founders of r…

Your backpedaling (oh, not ALL homeschoolers, just most, and did you know Andrea Yates homeschooled?) and distraction (who cares if I was stereotyping and broad-brushing, you fools ignore my greater point!) are techniques our esteemed colleagues on the far right pull when they get called on their snarky generalizations.

And your insistence on attributing arguments to me that I have not made, and inferring meanings that just arent’ there, and insisting on generalizing when a specific statement was made are also such techniques.

I wanted to write about your going after this clown by talking about homeschooled kids as ‘veal’.

Did I call ALL homeschooled kids veal? Did I? No, mythago, I did not. That’s YOUR inference. I called HIM veal.

I’m not sure why your response to anyone saying anything stronger than “Perhaps your post was not 100% perfect, zuzu” is to tell them to shut up, fuck off and take it to their own blog.

Must hurt pulling all that out of your ass.

Look, you can criticize what I wrote, you can disagree with it, but if you’re going to start making shit up and then bludgeoning me with it, I will ask you to go do that somewhere else. And you’re making shit up.

Actually, zuzu, I wanted to write about your going after this clown by talking about homeschooled kids as ‘veal’. Your backpedaling (oh, not ALL homeschoolers, just most, and did you know Andrea Yates homeschooled?) and distraction (who cares if I was stereotyping and broad-brushing, you fools ignore my greater point!) are techniques our esteemed colleagues on the far right pull when they get called on their snarky generalizations.

I’m not sure why your response to anyone saying anything stronger than “Perhaps your post was not 100% perfect, zuzu” is to tell them to shut up, fuck off and take it to their own blog.

It never fails to amaze me how, when we’re talking about homeschooling, progressives suddenly decide that after all, schools are open, free places of education where students of all ages and creeds are encouraged to interact and learn from one another, and where young minds are opened to all possibilities.

And you’re reaching troll levels of projection here. I never said anything of the sort.

This is not about homeschooling in general, or as progressives do it, or anything like that. This is about the Washington Post, a once-reputable newspaper, hiring a racist, misogynist, plagiarizing, narrow-minded kid with a politically-connected daddy to write a partisan blog on its website without giving liberals a corresponding presence.

So, if you want to write about homeschooling and how insensitive some people are to how great it is, please do it on your own blog.

Of course there are people who abuse homeschooling. There are people who abuse ’special education’ designations to try and get their kids advantages, but I don’t think that says anything about the validity of special-education programs in general.

Yes, I get pissy about this stuff, because I never hear sniping about homeschooling from parents who have ever been on the wrong side of school administrators. I guess if all you care about is that the little brats are warehoused from 8 to 2 on weekdays, homeschooling seems like a dumb idea indeed.