Followup on rumors

The possible palace coup is looking less coupish. According to an unidentified source, the Black Queen has said, "Rash decisions were made. Those decisions are being rethought." I imagine she looked grim when she said it. Sounds like Her Blackness pulled some strings. I wonder who those strings are attached to?
The robes for the White Tornado's replacement were supposed to be on view starting yesterday and Silver's new robes next week. I didn't see them. Did you?
We are just astonished at that lapse - NOT.
Duchy administrators are still acting like they have a nice little nest egg in some place without extradition and that they will at some point in the future catch the last train out of Dodge and let it all fall down behind them. I'm not quite sure how you accumulate a nice little Duchy nest egg, but the Black Queen is always assuring us that she knows more than we do. Maybe that's one of the things she knows!
As you all may know, Dotland is renowned for Potlucks. The Dotland potluck recipes will now be posted to the Dotland wiki at http://www.dotland.pbwiki.com Check it out.

The Black Queen is just no fun

The blogs, including Dotland Dispatches, are still blocked in the Duchy and so of course the blocks must be blogged. I just finished reading "Julie & Julia: My year of cooking dangerously" by Julie Powell. She points out that what Julia Child brought to cooking was joy, great joy, enthusiasm, fun. I realized that the big problem with the Black Queen is her total lack of a sense of humor. I e-mailed about the blocked blogs and got a very severe reply from her Blackness saying that I didn't use the proper channels to report the blocked blogs. I think she probably doesn't see the irony of blocking blogs about public education in a public school district. Perhaps we should start sending her jokes to cheer her up? Probably not. But I think we definitely need a new vision statement.
"All children can learn....in some other school district."
"The Duchy - Together against children"
"We're the them in DUCHY" or "Us against them in DUCHY"
Particularly appropriate today "We don't want anyone learning anything from anyone anytime because we're DUCHY and we're here for the children"
"This is a learning free zone"
"The Duchy is a professional anti-learning community that ensures every student is bored, has no performance standards, drops out, and will make some CEO rich by working 80 hours a week for 50 cents an hour." (That's the truth in advertising version. If you think I'm being too harsh, just think over actual results, not what they say they are going to do, but what actually happens. Do we have a library coordinator yet? Does Silver have her new robes? What happened to those robes anyway? Do the Smartpants boards that were going to revolutionize classrooms work? Do the school that say OMA on the front actually have OMA teachers? Are you sure? How many classrooms still have only long term subs?)