
Month: August 2015


For Their Futures’ Sake
Yes, I fear for their future and safety every day. These kids are bright and excel in advanced placement programs in school. The oldest is […]

Fluff, Fiction, and Fear
We’re looking at some Presidential candidates brimming with fluff, fiction, and fear for their constituency’s consumption. Unfortunately, many voters play into the game as their […]

Elephant Muck Up
It appears the GOP has a new sport this week–mud wrestling! As if there is some great difficulty acknowledging the reality of “birthright citizenship,” the […]

Higher Education for All
Years ago I did some extensive postgraduate research about access, aspiration, and achievement of post secondary students in higher education–it was a 5-year longitudinal study […]

Robber Barons Redux
Little did we know that the “robber baron” history of 100 years ago would rear its ugly head and repeat itself. The parallels are strikingly […]

No BS Bernie
Bernie Sanders is a bit of an enigma to many–folks just don’t “get” him because he is not the conventional politician. I remember working out […]

GOP El Niño Summer
There’s little in the way of rationale to explain the aberrant GOP Presidential politics’ plummet into utter lunacy this summer, so why not just create […]

Ascendancy of Venus
Here I am retired after two careers spanning over 20 years each. Rather than encouraging a vegetative state of senility fogging the mind and senses, […]