OK!  OK!!  Anyone who reads me knows that oil hit $110-a-barrel on 3/12/08 – yet this article is dated for 3/9/08.  Yes!  It’s post-dated!!  I’m trying to buy two homes and teach at 2 different schools at the same time (one of them being THE asshole of education);  not to mention dealing with those two […]

The last time I broached the topic of schizophrenia – I gave you my working definition of schizophrenia: Tis when the mind cannot distinguish between empirical reality and what is happening inside one’s head.  Tis all the same!   In post-Viet Nam and our marijuana-laced culture, spiked with a generation-or-more of heavy cocaine use: we

Uneasy Bed-Fellows (There are only 2 reasons for divorce)             L.A. County JCCS and L.A. County Probation have not always made for uneasy bed-fellows.  There have been times when the models in place worked well for both JCCS and probation.  I remember transferring to Camp Scudder in late 1997, and meeting students who had done

Why Would Probation Want to do LACOE’s Work in JCCS?             It’s all about the money.  I’m not exactly sure what LACOE pulls in on ADA for its court schools, but some preliminary number crunching suggests perhaps $50 million-a-year (when one factors in the 3 halls and 18-19 camps).  How L.A. County Probation thinks they

Hollywood usually screws up the diagnosis of schizophrenia by confusing it with multiple personality disorder (to wit: ‘Me, Myself and Irene’).  They are not the same diagnoses.  Multiple personality disorder is exactly what it says it is: entertaining multiple personalities.   Schizophrenia, however – is a much more interesting proposition.  My favorite interpretation of schizophrenia

Anyone who has read my bio knows that I’ve been teaching for 29 years. I also managed to fit in 10 years of psychotherapy “practicing” in there – and I will never forget the stories of two good-looking, young women who came to seek help: usually for family-of-origin and boyfriend problems (and from the perspective

I went to my first Bar Mitzvah the other day, and, aside from observing the pure torture this young man had to go through – I realized that the Jews have pushed this one God thang to:  a)  keep their women under control; and, b)  to give them the right to destroy any-and-all competition.  Be-that-as-it-may

My publisher, Arash, complains that I start with one topic – or subject, and then, I quite leave it behind and go off on tangents.  Well, of course he is correct – and that is why I like the essay format!  To essay, I gather, meant to (once-upon-a-time) “make an attempt”; or, to go forth. 

Welcome to the New Year!  I have just realized that I have been stuck in the “asshole of education” for the past 15-and-a-half-years!!  And by this “asshole,” I am talking about the juvenile court school system of the Los(t) Angeles County Court Schools.  Yes, yes…this is the same system that the film “Gridiron Gang” was

I just asked my oldest son (Nick) if he knew where Karl Rove is these days.  I figured that Karl Rove was actively planning the next 9/11 so that the Bushies would be able to declare a State of Emergency and subsequent martial law – rendering the upcoming election hoopla moot – and the good