Schools are scenes of extreme manipulation and coercion. Our national and state interest in them is less than benign, or as the soft-hearted among us might say, less than caring. Let us, residents of our…
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Speaking of Books: Murdering the Innocents
And speaking of reading: some books have chapters or sections that can be considered apart from the whole work as something like illustrative set pieces. These pieces are part of the whole, but can be…
So Proud of Our Dirt
I fear we have yet to understand, to wake up to the fact, that every single thing that seems to create contentious debate and divide our citizenry is endemic and intentional. That this disease of…