Sometimes I protest too much
posted about 15 hours ago, updated about 2 hours later | 7 comments
Is it time to change the education paradigm?
posted 1 day ago, updated 12 minutes later | 5 comments
My Paris Wife
posted 2 days ago, updated 9 minutes later | 6 comments
I am finishing up the NYT Best Seller, The Paris Wife, which tells the tale of a young Ernest Hemingway in his days as member of the lost generation. Le Generation Perdu was a term coined by Gertrude Stein for the group of writers and other artist...
Religious rights vs. human rights
posted 3 days ago, updated about 2 hours later | 10 comments
The fur is flying over the issue of mandatory woman's reproductive services benefits being required under the Health Care Affordability Act. Religious organization oppose the use of such methods of birth control and find the mandate a violation of...
Bye, bye gall bladder
posted 5 days ago, updated 5 minutes later | 4 comments
After about three months of trying to pin down the cause of some digestive problems, a series of diagnostic tests have found the culprit. It is that useless organ between the liver and the stomach. So out it will come as soon as I can schedule sur...
Propaganda or advertisement?
posted 5 days ago, updated about 13 hours later | 15 comments
The most controversial commercial to come out of the Super Bowl is the Clint Eastwood, “Its half-time America.” You have to watch it to draw your own conclusion but as someone who has studied the techniques of propaganda, there is no question in m...
No habla ingles
posted 6 days ago, updated about 2 hours later | 7 comments
You would have to know that the case would come up in Arizona. In 2006, Arizona voters passed Proposition 103 with 74 percent of the vote that required that all government business be conducted in English.
Nearby, New Mexico is officially bi-li...
Nearby, New Mexico is officially bi-li...
Living in a win-lose world
posted 7 days ago, updated 17 minutes later | 10 comments
Today is practically a national holiday, as millions will watch the Superbowl, the essence of competitive behavior. There is only one winner of a contest that started in September and the winner takes all. Who remembers the losers? Americans like ...
Remembering Minnie Riperton
posted 8 days ago, updated 12 minutes later | 5 comments
After replenishing our kitchen supplies at the grocery store, my wife and I stopped at the Red Box for an afternoon matinee movie in the comfort of our living room. What else do old folks do in a retirement colony? Just for the fun of it, we picke...
Why are people poor?
posted 9 days ago, updated about 1 hour later | 5 comments
Having come from humble roots, I have always been interested in the answer. We toss about the state of being poor as if it were some kind of a physical thing like being short or bald. The government makes an artificial calculation of the economic ...
