I mean I find it to be a fairly powerful drug...almost like an acid trip with lucidity in place of the bug-out.

There's absolutely no way of putting a positive spin on the Republican parties dealing with the civil rights movement. When LBJ signed the bill he was dead right that the Democratic Party would lose the south for at least a generation.

If they're distorting the other areas as much as they are this one, the students in Texas will really be short changed.

I'm not sold on home schooling either. I really think half of education is being exposed to ideas that widen your horizons. Developing people skills and learning to survive in society are also important lessons in the public school system.

One of the first things GWB did when he took office was to seal a lot of the records dealing with Reagan and his dad.

This is one of the reasons I think we should quit honoring or naming things after politicans until they have been dead for at least 50 years. That way, hopefully, the real facts will have come to light by then.

The game has been around for thousands of years,  and there's a vast literature on the subject.
In imperial Japan, rival "houses" of go players played for titles. Games could go on for many days or even weeks. The most prestigious titles in Japan are named after these old, imperial ones: Honinbo, Meijin.

In about 1996 I met Iwamoto Kaoru, who was Honinbo in the 1940's. In fact, he was playing a title match in August 1945 in Hiroshima. The police chief had warned them to play outside of the city because Hiroshima was known to be a prime target. On Aug. 7th, they were playing their game when the bomb was dropped. Iwamoto thought that some munitions factories had been blown up, but then the ghastly survivors started walking by and he knew.
It was because of his experience watching the very worst horrors of war that he devoted his later years and his own wealth to spreading the game of go around the world, to promote peaceful understanding between peoples. He spent several million dollars building go centers around the world.

I've played a lot of go and chess, and I recommend teaching go to your children over chess.
Interestingly, the availability of cheap computer programs which play better chess than any human has led to an explosion of new talent in the chess world, because literally anyone can learn at a high level today. Also, at elite levels, opening theory has become much more interesting, as people are able to use computers to check lines which they would never have considered before.
Chess may remain a viable competitive game for some time.
Computers are improving at go. There's little doubt that a computer will beat a human at some point. In my opinion this will impact the game less than chess, because go is so much more complicated than chess that memorization of computer lines would not be very useful.

There are several concrete reasons that go is  a superior competitive game to chess.
First, there are no draws---well, there are some VERY rare repetition of move scenarios, but far more than 99% of games end in a victory.
Second, the variety of openings is such that the appearance of games is much less stale than chess: very often a game is unique within 15 or 20 moves, whereas in chess, one sees the same positions over and over and over.
Third, go has a handicap system which allows for competitive games between players of very different levels.
The very strongest player in Japan last century ---Chinese born Go Seigen, who is still alive at 99 or so---was so strong that in the 1940's and 50's he pushed all of the strongest players to the minimum handicap.
He played a famous game against  Honinbo Shusai in his youth which was described in the book, The Master of Go.
This game went on for many weeks. Shusai barely won, and that only because he was given an unfair advantage. He could postpone play at any time without sealing a move. When the game got tough, he took the position home and studied it with his team.