Homeschooling: What we do in the summer

What we did today. Just for fun:

7am: Up. Watch cartoons (educational cartoons), play with toys, loaf about.

8:45am:Breakfast. Get dressed.

10am:Walk to park; play until we are hungry. Walk home.

12:45: Lunch. 

1:30: Little kids in bed. Zoe read a book to me and then she went to bed too.

Mom went outside and sun bathed.

3:30: Play outside: sprinkler, catch, tball hitting, chalk, etc. (Talk about things like photosynthesis. Zoe does experiment to see what floats and what sinks in water table.)

5:30: Dinner

6:00: Watch Zathura

Vocabulary: evasive, cryonic, reprogram, embark, defective, etc.

Next in schedule:

8:00: In pj's, brush teeth, etc. read story. Sleeeeeep!

I need to do chores but probably won't.

The War on Drugs and the Tragedy of Criminal Informants

The "war on drugs" is an ugly failure. I could spend an hour talking about it. Right now though, I just want to bring to your attention something most don't consider. The lives lost and ruined in this mess. And one of these groups is criminal informants. These aren't career criminals. Take for example, the tragic story of Rachel Hoffman: 

"Hoffman chose to coöperate. She had never fired a gun or handled a significant stash of hard drugs. Now she was on her way to conduct a major undercover deal for the Tallahassee Police Department, meeting two convicted felons alone in her car to buy two and a half ounces of cocaine, fifteen hundred Ecstasy pills, and a semi-automatic handgun."

http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/120903fa_fact_stillman