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Saying Goodbye to Yesterday, Shaking Hands with Tomorrow 6
- Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 21, 2022
Most people I know have either read or seen Gone with the Wind. One of the underlying themes of that story, alluded to in the title, is the disappearance of the Old South, its economy and way of life destroyed, and often erased, by the Civil War and Reconstruction. That terrible conflict freed the slaves,
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Why So Many Cling to COVID Panic 1
- Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 21, 2022
When I was 10, I had a 12-year-old sister, Denise, and two brothers. Lenny was 14 and Danny was 5. We boys slept in the same room in a small, single-story house in a modest, riverside neighborhood known as Pleasureland. The neighborhood’s name derived from a nearby park with two swimming pools and many picnic
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Finding a Great Getaway From Our Crazy Time 12
- Culture, Education, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 15, 2022
“You have to be always drunk,” wrote the French poet Charles Baudelaire. “That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.” “But on what?” Baudelaire asks. With “wine, with
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Public Schools Are Spending Money Like Crazy, Despite Sharp Enrollment Declines 2
- Economics, Education, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 13, 2022
The public education system has been failing students for years. From misappropriating funds to providing inadequate lessons and passing illiterate students; public schools are losing support. Despite this they continue receiving extensive budgets which do not properly represent enrollment rates, attendance numbers, or staffing issues. While it is true that 2020 was an extremely difficult year for
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Young People Are Depressed…Who Can Blame Them?3
- Culture, Family, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 8, 2022
Last year a Harvard Youth Poll found 51 percent of Americans ages 18-29 had felt depressed, down, or hopeless at times in the two weeks before responding to the survey. While adults might respond in similar numbers—feeling “down” covers a lot of territory—let’s take the poll at face value and assume that teens and twenty-somethings
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Electric Cars Are Not ‘Zero-Emission Vehicles’4
- Culture, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized
- September 8, 2022
While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100% of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional
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