When you hear about the kinds of jobs many college graduates are getting today, or the amount of time they have to wait before they are even hired, it presents a confusing picture. Just what kind of career can young people expect? I have been an active working adult for many years, but I consider […]
Judging from what many financial pundits are saying nowadays, it seems that the administration and Congress are preparing a strict “no nonsense” new set of regulations, including criminal laws, that will be able to prevent a recurrence of the ’08 financial meltdown. One reason for this, they say, is because the “middle class” has been […]
I attended a prayer service for Japan last Friday evening. It was held in the United Nations Chapel, and was organized by Reverend KenjitsuNakagaki. Prayers were led by reverends from three sects of Buddhism, and for the Christian and Shinto religions. The texts of the prayers were given in both Japanese and English. There was a music […]
We went to a (kind of) play, or theatre event last Saturday…Called “Swan!”…at P(erformance) S(pace) 122 , a former public school now used for theatre events, mostly fringe (avant garde?) acts from people trying out new stuff cheap…And it was FUN!!…But only if you’ve seen “Black Swan” because it won’t make any sense otherwise…it was […]
Although what was known as “Obamacare” was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, it was re-enacted after Obama’s re-election in 2012, when both houses of Congress were again under Democratic control. The new version retained the same “mandatory health insurance” provision that killed the law before, but after Obama’s next two Supreme Court appointments […]
You notice I put the title in quotes because it is the statement of somebody else; as for me, the jury is still out. Let me explain. A few days after the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from Amy Chua’s memoir — “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” — and the media avalanched us […]
In Wikipedia, the game “Telephone” is defined as a game where all the players stand in line and the first player whispers a phrase or sentence to the next player. That player then whispers what he or she heard to the next player, and so on. At the end, the last player announces the statement […]
This is not a researched submission. I’m only reacting to the recent flood of hysterical proselytizing by “experts” over America’s imminent collapse because of the crisis in education. It seems that half of the coverage predicts total third-world status for us because we’ll never catch up to those Asian superkids who outperform us at every turn. But […]
Although the exact year it gets to the Supreme Court may be different, you can be sure that history is marching all of us to that case, and I’m surprised we haven’t gotten there already. Of course, history has a tendency to send mixed signals, and I may get caught with my pants down about this […]
