Posted Sun, Jan 29, 1:32 a.m.

I might add that the author of the article reputedly LIVES in Seattle, so regardless of what one may think of the sentiment it displays, it is not the product of someone sitting on the beach in Redondo Beach simply making the whole scenario up as a figment of his/her ...

Posted Fri, Jan 20, 5:21 p.m.

Art must not have been in the NYC/North Jersey area during inclement weather. In fact, the weather in that area is VERY similar to that here (including annual rainfall, though it comes in bigger lumps there). The +/- 32 degrees thaw, refreeze cycle there is exactly the same as it ...

Posted Tue, Nov 15, 2:23 p.m.

Kent died of lung cancer. He never smoked, but his wife did -- apparently a lot. Beware the possibilities of second-hand smoke (although people do die from the affliction with no previous exposure to tobacco smoke and the cause always could be otherwise). He had had two previous operations to ...

Posted Fri, Sep 30, 11:48 a.m.

Ah, yes. Shoreline. It can't afford to pay its teachers, but it can afford an exorbitantly expensive, ego-driven redo of Aurora. But, don't worry folks, they didn't pay for it themselves -- you did. Free money, manna from your tax money, national, state and county as the author boasts about. ...

Posted Sat, Jul 2, 12:51 a.m.

Hey, David -- Don't dump on Danny. I am always interested in what people who actually have had their boots on the ground have to say about where they have been. At the least it's a lot better than the raw, untutored opinion that often masquerades as insight, no matter ...

Posted Thu, Apr 28, 1:29 p.m.

The author presents an interesting view of educational Utopia; however I beg to quibble with the pragmatism and the effectiveness of the examples already evidence: Years ago, I responded to an invitation to visit my daughter's classes on "Parents' Day" at Garfield High School, thus totally mortifying her, but it ...

Posted Mon, Apr 25, 11:22 a.m.

Hmmm! Was that guy Stanford a product of the "educational establishment". I can give you one totally pathetic product who is polluting the minds of hoards of high school students with a totally warped sense of civility and civic involvement -- at the very least.

Posted Fri, Jan 7, 10:10 p.m.

I had to chuckle at "The Parable". Here's my version. Working at Boeing, I made a business trip to Cedar Rapids to audit an electronics program. After being handed my airline ticket (in the days when tickets were as good as currency) I found a deal in which, if I ...

Posted Fri, Jun 11, 10:31 p.m.

Howgar -- BP is the RESPONSIBLE Party. Somebody in government -- it appears to be the Coast Guard's Admiral Thaddeus Allen (Ret) -- is the INCDENT COMMANDER, who is ostensibly in charge of the “incident” (sounds benign, doesn’t it :-(, but he repeatedly defers to BP, saying that they have ...