Cell Phones 5/18/22

The plan backfired, spectacularly, as the next thing I heard was a chorus from several students saying loudly, “DO MINE NEXT!!!”

Famous 5/6/22

“Well,” he said in a serious voice, “I think you should get out of bed, come upstairs, and have some sponge cake with General Michael Miltstein of the Soviet Union.”

Do No Harm 5/4/22

Loss of civil rights is not so much because of those who vote them in as it is those who fail to vote them out.

Family Generation 4/30/22

until managers recognize the needs of their younger employees, there will always be friction.

Different Worlds 4/28/22

The world of the hungry and homeless is very different from that most of us know, because we’ve never had to decide between eating food that we find rotting in a dumpster or sleeping on it because decaying food gives off heat.

Candle 4/23/22

Science builds on itself, so if you don’t understand this chapter, you won’t understand the next, but this can also be crippling to a professor.

Earth Day 4/22/22

Over reliance on any one source of power, as we tend to enjoy doing as human beings, would have serious consequences over time. Indeed, we need a platform to pursue a diversity of power sources for the nation so the deleterious effects of any single source is minimized. But even that’s not enough.

Emancipation Day 4/19/22

Why this is celebrated in Washington D.C. alone, and not nationally, I don’t understand. In my mind, it’s more significant than President’s Day.

Tax Day 4/18/22

I have no problem with taxes, honestly. It’s a social equalizer when done correctly, paying for infrastructure such as highway repairs, bridges, power plants and more. At the local level, they pay for fire, police, garbage, water and other important safety nets. The issue right now is that, in my opinion, American taxes are upside down in several ways.