Blog Heap of Links for the day 17 January 2016

…Although there’s no gainsaying their ubiquitous popularity. Individuals, medicos, public schools and scores of government agencies aggressively push counseling sessions and “evaluations,” recommended drugs, support groups and other metal health therapies. And as far as I can understand they do so in the smug assurance that what they’re advocating is a modern science. After all everybody knows we’ve come light years in managing a child’s adjustment to life from the “dark ages” of only a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago when mental professionals and their programs and treatments did not exist.

Really? Let’s look at a few lives from those years.…

Time to make some laundry detergent. We started making our own powdered detergent about a year ago. Clothes come out nice and soft, no fabric softener necessary (we do use dryer sheets in the winter but only for their anti-static properties.)

Here's how to do it…

…Feelgood Story of the Day: Chicago Liquor Store Employee Won’t Face Charges for Blowing Away Two Robbers
Lost in the all the carnage in Obama’s disorganized community is this heartwarming nugget from over the weekend.…