Maybe Fillmore fans should be offended.
Franklin Pierce ordered the first bathtub for the White House. Many people were upset. They thought taking baths was not healthy and would make you sick!
Good heavens! They’ve got all the points of the Millard Fillmore/bathtub in the White House hoax — but they’ve attributed it to the wrong president!
It’s a hoax hoax!
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(The Life of Reason, vol. 1: Reason in Common Sense)
Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Or, until that account is unsuspended by the forces supporting Donald Trump:
Follow @FillmoreWhite, the account of the Millard Fillmore White House Library
Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control. My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it. BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
Unfortunately, this situation is all too common. I live in Austin, TX, a city where most of the large education publishers have their development offices. None of the materials they publish are developed in-house by professionals who are experts in their subject areas. For the most part, these big publishers hire contract workers to do all of their development work. Admittedly, this is a broad generalization, but I think I’m 99% correct in saying that the contract workers are recent college graduates who were unable to find salaried positions right out of school or are graduate school hopefuls who are filling time until they have been accepted to a program. Frankly, there is really very little in the way of expectations for quality or passion for the subject area. If you want confirmation, check out the Austin, TX, jobs listings on Craigslist for “writing/editing jobs.” Review the education-related editing positions, and you will see what I am talking about.
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