Regular commenter Ed Darrell has started a weblog of his own now, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, dedicated to knowing US History. And really, don't you want to learn the story behind the name?
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This is Asher, who made a squid in his sewing class. I wish I'd had a class like that when I was his age.
Admit it—you were curious to know what those ninnies who write B.C. and Mallard Fillmore would do in their Christmas comic strips, weren't you?
As long as we're dealing with rebuttals to criticism, Joe Carter has reacted to my previous rejection of his incoherent complaints.
Nothing to do with Millard, but I thought you might like a bit of good news. Ok, it's in Britain, but even so.
"Organised religion is in near-terminal decline in Britain because parents have only a 50-50 chance of passing on belief to their offspring, a study claimed yesterday.
By contrast, parents without faith are successful in producing a new generation of non-believers, it said.
The report identified institutional religion as having a "half-life" of one generation, as children are only half as likely as their parents to say that it is important in their lives."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/17/nrelig1…
I have been to Millard Fillmore's birthplace. I didn't see a bathtup there, jost a flagpole and a couple picnic tables.