When politics gets  tough, American’s cope by using laughter. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert lead the way, of course.  Michael Moore and Rachel Maddow get in a few good licks, as does Garrison Keillor.  But for street genius, there’s nothing like a protest sign. Here, I’ll

Experiments are always happening in public education.  During my brief years in the classroom, I remember fads like team-teaching, schools-within-schools, open classrooms,  magnet schools, alternative schools and, finally, charter schools.  What these variations held in common was

Just as science and art have long debated the social consequences of their activities, (Blog 2/10/17), it’s time for technology, the Sixth Estate, to grapple with its responsibility. Not only are its innovations transforming society, but they are doing so faster than in the past, ef

My Facebook page is rife with pictures of crocuses and daffodils springing from the damp soil.  Temperate weather is ahead, my friends want to assure me   I see their selfies as they stand in waiting lines at airports or pat a camel somewhere on the African continent.  Winter is l

Today marks 7 years of daily blogging, 5 days a week.  Monday, I begin 8. Thanks  to all who have joined me and welcome to any who are curious.  But today, I’m gone fishing.

Writer Keven Baker’s modest proposal, tongue-in-cheek, is spiked with enough telling arguments to make me wonder why blue states go on funding the insanities of red states.  (“Bluexit,” by Keven Baker, New Republic, April 2017, pg. 19-25.) In 2015, when Texans circulated t

My Yahoo news page came up with the following headline, recently: “Bernie Sanders followers are among the smartest…  They don’t believe anything.  The post must have proof…”   I didn’t read further. I’m not a Bernie Sanders fan, though some of my Facebook friends hav

A magnet given to me by a friend sits on my refrigerator door.  It reads, “If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?”   Anyone who doubts good nutrition is important only needs to look at the role it played in the development of our species. As writer Suzana H

James Wolcott in a recent essay pokes his finger at the thorn of my discontent.  We are in a period of hysteria where the political alt-right and alt-left, overblown with fears and secretly hoping for a revolution, begin to sound the same.  As Wolcott explains, the two sides may not

By the time a person reaches their 80s, many will have had hip or knee replacement surgery and possibly a pacemaker inserted under their skin to moderate heart beats.  I often write about robots becoming more human with the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but the question might