So emotional and knee-jerk do many get concerning what I am about to do, I feel we all need a little historical decorum and perspective before I start. If you think I really had problems with public education (What is Wrong with Public Education…), they may have been exceeded in church (Southern Baptist) over the […]
Music, like women and beer, is a matter of taste. I have chosen as my music genre for life — rock and roll. My choice occurred when I was a Senior in Cisco High School, when Beatlemania hit, and I think I bought the first Beatle album at the A&P grocery store where my father […]
Thanks to all for the comments on “What is Wrong With Public Education… and What To Do About It.” (If you have not done so, please read “What To Do…” before you read this.) I apologize if it came across as bitter, or as “sour grapes,” if it came across as rambling or confused, if […]
If our country is one big room, the elephant in that room is the state of public education. Everybody seems to know there are grave problems, but no one wants to talk about it. Well… almost no one… I am near the end of my teaching career, so I have no reservations in talking about […]
This is (II), which goes with (I here). Hopefully, this will ingratiate me back in good graces with the women I outraged as they read (I). I’ve told Judy Roach that I am a reformed male chauvinist pig, not a cured one. (I) is probably a case in this point, but I like to think […]
My son Chad and his family (along with the extended family) are going through the trauma of their black and tan female miniature dachshund, Harley, coming down suddenly with the infirmities of old age. The reaction is as if she was a human family member, and I completely understand why. I grew up with dogs, both inside […]
Don’t know yet the extent of the waves of repercussions caused by the NFL rulings and punishments against the Saints’ organization concerning the bounty hunting scandal on the Saints’ defense. First, I feel sorry for the Saints’ players who did not participate, like Drew Brees and all the offense. The coach who used to be […]
The Long List of names I have been called and of labels directed at me for attempted attachment keeps growing. Beginning as far back as high school, I have been called or labeled a progressive, a liberal, a pinko, a communist, a socialist, a fascist, a Nazi, a Democrat, a secular humanist, a scientific revolution […]
Ok, Ok, I know musical tastes are not proper criteria to vote for President (see my spiel on the White House blues performance), but I also know many actually vote on criteria equally trivial. Wow! If there was ever a doubt whether I would vote for Obama again in the November election, it was dispelled […]