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

“Eddies” are those wonderful little spots in streams and rivers where waters simply swirl round-and-round and never seem to get anywhere.  A leaf might spend an eternity in an eddy: given time, an oxbow lake might grow from an eddy.   So too are our special education students!  Stuck in a current at variance with

So let’s see, here…we have all-of-these White Boys locked up in public school – and with the assist of WWs I and II, and the Great Depression – this American public school thang managed to get itself into the 1950s.  And during that time — we had a rather homogeneous population of Whites (that by

Dr. William Glasser (who I hope History will judge as the greatest psychologist of all time) once told me that “content standards” would spell the downfall of American public education.  A former principal, Fred Berson, further suggested that special education would spell the downfall of the aforementioned institution.               I’d have to say that

I think it was Andy Warhol who suggested that we’ll all get our 15 minutes of fame.  And a recent letter to the L.A. Times suggested that we “bloggers” finally have an outlet to feel like we’re some kinda writers – that we really have something to say to the rest of our species: that

So where was I…I seem to remember a diatribe regarding ADHD – but perhaps because I have each-and-every symptom of the “disease” – I won’t be able to hook back into my earlier train-of-thought (Hansel and Gretel I need you now!).  But wait!  The new ADHD studies – which I mentioned in last week’s “Doctor’s

I wanted to discuss Ahmadinejad corroborating my contention that the American Dollar is worthless, (See ‘Closing in’) but the article entitled: “ADHD may be temporary, study suggests”; in November 13th’s L.A. Times (I love my Times) brought me back to what prompted me to start writing in the first place: mental disease as a socio-political

It gets progressively more difficult to get back to those subjects that are close to my heart — when so much of what I prophesied seems to be revealing itself in-the-here-and-now.  I wanted to write about my sons’ poor treatment by local soccer referees (I can only guess because these refs hate me [my sons