Eight years ago today, I was in my first year of teaching at Gaylord High School. I was teaching an American Government class, and it had been a very eventful first semester. The historic election of Barack Obama, I was told by a student, was due to his being “half-white” since black people are […]
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Requiem for a Dream
This column appeared in the Northern Express on January 14, 2017 This is going to be a very different column than the one I planned to submit earlier in the week. But just hours before I submitted my work, something terrible happened and “Stop the Presses!” burned through my brain. (Cue the heavy organ […]
- 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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