by Mark Pontoni on 3/22/2020 People who have followed my writing in the Petoskey News-Review, the Northern Express, and in this blog, know I have been a vociferous critic of State Representative Lee Chatfield since before he held office. Everything about Chatfield’s background and performance since screams incompetence and hypocrisy. Many of the people of […]
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Children at Play; Insights into WWI
Each year as we get towards the end of teaching World War I, I spend a few days having our students study some of the poetry written by soldiers from the trenches. (Sassoon, Brooke, Harvey, and Nichols are among my favorites.) Drawing on the lessons of “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Johnny Got […]
- An open letter to my students…all of them…
- These are the times; Paine and Trump
- I’m an Elitist:Is that a slam?
- The Constitution: Just what are we protecting anyway?
- Word Inflation; Just how do you tell someone to F-off?
- Divorcing Friends; It’s not you…it’s me.
- Engage! Engage! Engage!
- Tales from Kosovo: “100% dead”
- John Engler: Terrorist
- Lessons from Sarajevo
- Did trump fork up? Looking at Iran
- The Catholic Church, The Pieta, and Me
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