#sboe

for those who have loved and lost, unconditionally.

1. Lana Del Rey - Love (Strings Cover)

2. Peter Gabriel-Signal To Noise

Man I’m losing sound and sight//Of all those who can tell me wrong from right//When all things beautiful and bright//Sink in the night

3.  Christine and the Queens - Tilted

I’m actually good//Can’t help it if we’re tilted//I’m actually good//Can’t help it if we’re tilted

4. Florence and the Machine- Strangeness And Charm

An atom to atom oh can you feel it on me love and//A pattern to pattern oh can you see it on me love//Atom to atom oh what’s the matter with me love

5. Lorde-Liability

They say, “You’re a little much for me//You’re a liability//You’re a little much for me”//So they pull back, make other plans//I understand, I’m a liability//Get you wild, make you leave//I’m a little much for//E-a-na-na-na, everyone

6. Agnes Obel - Familiar

And our love is a ghost that the others can’t see// It’s a danger// Every shade of us you fade down to keep// Them in the dark on who we are// (Oh what you do to me) //Gonna be the death of me

7.  Ellie Goulding-Still Falling For You

With love on the line//We’ve had our share of mistakes//But all your flaws and scars are mine//Still falling for you//Still falling for you

8. Mumford and Sons- If I Say

Show me your face//Did you cross the line?//Show me your eyes//They any drier than mine?//Your soul survives//But peace, you’ll never find

9. Andrei and Natasha Fall In Love-BBC Three Drama

10. Florence and the Machine- No Choir

No ballad will be written//It will be entirely forgotten//And if tomorrow it’s all over//At least we had it for a moment//Oh darling things seem so unstable//But for a moment we were able to be still

It’s difficult for me to refer to the Texas State Board of Education as a 15-member gang of nincompoops. The SBOE, though, is showing troubling signs of seriously dunce-like behavior.

It had decided to remove two pioneer women from public school curricula: Helen Keller, a disability rights advocate and (get a load of this!) Hillary Rodham Clinton, the nation’s first female ever nominated for…

Hey, didn’t Hillary make ‘history’ in 2016?

I swear I thought Hillary Rodham Clinton made “history” in 2016 when she became the first female to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party.

She ran a tough race against Donald J. Trump, but lost the Electoral College vote to the 45th president of the United States.

But wait! The Texas State Board of Education — a body of 15 elected politicians who represent…

SBOE switches gears: They were ‘heroes’ at the Alamo after all

The Texas State Board of Education came to its senses, with a little push from Gov. Greg Abbott.

The SBOE had voted tentatively to remove the term “hero” from its description of the men who died at the Alamo in 1836. Hey, we all know that they died heroically while defending the mission against superior Mexican armed forces.

SBOE reverses course

The board of education, though, almost knuckled…

Yes, they were ‘heroes’ at The Alamo

What’s going on with the Texas State Board of Education?

The 15-member elected board had decided that the men who fought and died at The Alamo shouldn’t be called “heroic” in Texas textbooks that tells the story of the 1836 struggle.

Then the SBOE backed off. The men who died were heroes after all. Politicians from Gov. Greg Abbott on down had objected to the eliminating of the “heroic”…