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What we risk losing


20 May 12 09:21 AM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best Read More...
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Watch the wheels....


03 January 12 08:24 PM
I've ridden motorcycles on and off (always better on than off) for over thirty years. While a few things are annoying--bugs in the teeth, bits of rotting roadkill kicked up by a car, the unexpected downpour--the joys far outweigh the negatives. The one Read More...
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Bill Gates can't dance


08 December 11 07:38 PM
In my previous life, I once found myself lounging on a raft in the middle of someone's very large swimming pool. Its owner stuck wires up the femoral arteries of babies, and got paid well to do that. She sighed the deep sigh of the eternally malcontent Read More...
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No Khan Do


22 August 11 09:24 PM
Salman Khan makes educational videos, lots of educational videos, using a simple technique--he draws out his thoughts on a "blackboard," while he thinks aloud. Much like someone unwrapping a problem on a napkin or on an old slate blackboard. Bill Gates Read More...
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Independence Day


04 July 11 08:12 PM
"...[A]t the length truth will out." I love the Fourth of July. Today we feasted on the first local tomatoes, a completely different beast than the imposters sitting on your grocery shelves. I ate a peach that grew less than two miles from here, its impossibly Read More...
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Go West, old man....


06 June 11 08:28 PM
"There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie." Dr. Cornel West The price is social, paid by the pangs of hunger of a child at midnight, a child in my neighborhood. I practiced pediatrics a long time in places Read More...
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Duncan does it again


03 April 11 08:52 AM
Arne Duncan may well be tone deaf, but his handlers must know how he sounds. That they have made no effort to sweeten his swill suggests that the monied people already know how this will go down. Our local paper's editorial board interviewed him , though Read More...
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"Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent."


30 March 11 07:08 PM
Some days, often in May when the bees are buzzing, the nectar is flowing and each day is longer than the next, I feel like introducing myself to strangers: Hello, my name is Michael, and I'm mortal. And you are, too. It's a luverly day. Let's dance! Or Read More...
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SMARTER is Orwellian


06 March 11 08:34 AM
This is a bit of a windy post mostly so I can find the links I need when I have the time to dig deeper into this. I recently realized that few teachers know what's coming down the pike, and I want to bone up on the nonsense so I can share it. We just Read More...
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Teach truth, joy follows


22 August 10 09:56 AM
So what do you do? What do you do when major sources of information provided to children come from corrupt human sources? What do you do when the adults around them believe whatever lights up their amygdalas the most? What do you say when the actions Read More...
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Bill Gates the Third: Póg mo Thóin


13 July 10 05:41 PM
I have an unhealthy (and perhaps unnatural) dislike of oligarchs. Bill Gates plans to leave $10,000,000 to each of his children because he "doesn’t want to leave them the burden of tremendous wealth." Read that again. S-L-O-W-L-Y.... Mr. Gates the Third Read More...
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Bill Gates's view of Heaven


13 July 10 09:27 AM
Please tell me this is a spoof, that the oligarchs infecting Arne's brain like earwigs* do not believe that this is what it's all about: Bill Gates wants to dictate education in your town. Bill Gates envisions the world above. Why not just turn us all Read More...
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