I felt compelled to post this in the hopes that you might take it and show it to your principals, your superintendents, your school board members and your state school board members. What follows is…
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Becoming Governor and Serving the Commonwealth
I propose to be your next Governor of Indiana. Let me clear that I do not expect to be. I intend to raise no money and seek no endorsements. I intend to create a platform…
Conservatives to Occupy Duty: Cities Must Heed Business Interests
In my local Sunday newspaper, the day of greatest readership (at least in terms of print circulation), a front page story discussing how one of our schools has adopted the “Artful Learning” curriculum continues onto…
Scrape ’em off, Save yourself: Climate Catastrophe and Education
I saw this comment today on the FB regarding an Education article: “I think public education must be like climate change. It is much easier to oppose than to support.” Hmmm…one is huge and absolutely…
Absolutism in the Face of Climate Disaster
What more can I offer anymore but anger and resignation. We are such petty creatures. Pathetic in unrestrained desires and petulance. Gaze upon the divine image in the guise of politicians and interest groups screaming…
Master and Commander: Can a Mormon Be Man Enough for the Murder Machine?
Today I opened my morning paper to discover a very large headline in the “Neighbors/Religion” section (we don’t have time to discuss this formatting decision, focus!): “Would Monroe County vote for a Mormon?” This was…
Lemons for Lessons: Replacing Childhood with Business Ideology
Apparently it’s time to ramp up the promotion of the propaganda engine that is “Lemonade Day” in America. Today’s Bloomington Herald-Times offers free advertisement for this event and the Powers behind it in the form…
Dogs Are Not People: They’re Smarter and More Communicative
Yesterday I skimmed a blog post by Jonathan Turley, a Georgetown law prof who is often on Olbermann talking about Constitutional issues such as our constant surveillance state erosion of civil liberties (“How the National…
Politics + Interest = Liberty?
Can you discover your own mind in the below from George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. I’m pretty sure we’re all in there somewhere. From Chapter 51 of Middlemarch. Politics and self-interest in 1871 and…
China On My Mind: Seeing Indiana
“Never think of a surface except as the extension of a volume…” Henry Moore (out of Rodin) quoted by Donal Hall China was forced upon me. Look, but don’t read beyond the excerpts below, unless…