Educational Challenges
"School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days; reading and 'riting and 'rithmetic taught to the tune of a hickory stick." -- Will Cobb and Gus Edwards At some point, just...
View ArticleFickle Friendships
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -- Buddha It seems that I have inadvertent...
View ArticleHappy St. David's Day
"Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't." -- Stephen Leacock Visitors to Google today would notice that their Doodle is a leek-hold...
View ArticleTwo Solitudes
"If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher." -- Unknown Two pieces in this morning's newspaper caught my attention with their highli...
View ArticleJust Another Day at the OQLF
"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all." -- Walt Whitman After se...
View ArticleGetting Away With It
"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds...
View ArticleEvil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
"A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're th...
View ArticleManners and Common Sense
"In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks." -- Bill Watterson I have often wondered if parents are simply not teaching basic manner...
View ArticleShots in the Dark
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." -- Robert McCloskey Have you ever thought that no...
View ArticleYou Can't Eat Money
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for...
View ArticleHelp, I've Been Stupid!
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hardly a week goes by when I am not shaking my head in sadness and/or outrage...
View ArticleDo you want a background check with that?
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful...
View ArticleA Moment of Inattention
It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. -- Shakespeare, Henry IV As much as I don't want to admit it, I am middle-aged. Where the heck did all th...
View ArticleBranching Out
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." -- Jimmy Dean After careful consideration I've decided to shift my focus for...
View ArticleA Woman's Issue
As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake. -- Unknown How much longer must we see people blame the victims for the crime, and watch the authorities act too slowly? Wh...
View ArticleAre We There Yet?
Justice delayed is justice denied. -- William Gladstone Any parent will tell you how frustrating it is to hear incessant "Are we there yet?" when on a road trip. More people should be sayi...
View ArticleClassic Playthings
"You will always be your child's favorite toy." -- Vicki Lansky We have a large orange telephone-shaped plushie that has a huge smile on the front. It was originally mine - a gift fro...
View ArticleNot-so Shocking News
"We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves." -- Arnold Toynbee Sigh... she h...
View ArticleNi-hao America
Learn without thinking begets ignorance. Think without learning is dangerous. -- Confucius These days many of our consumables, from clothing to electronics, are manufactured in Asia under conditions...
View ArticleEndangered Bees
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. -- Marcus Aurelius In September...
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