Well, even though we still don’t have martial law in the U.S. (one of my friends has informed me that military operatives are in the streets anticipating potential flash riots that might escalate) – I still find many of my predictions coming through, and, I still feel like I am 2-years-ahead-of-the-curve (with regards to anticipating […]
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I have to admit that over my last 25 years in California, Californians are getting much better at driving in the rain. Where the Sepulveda Pass was a once a log jam during a rain (in both directions) – we now get Californians mounting the pass at at least 35 mph and descending it at
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Oh my Kobe! You’ve really stirred up a hornet’s nest now – what with this two-year agreement you’ve signed with Turkish Airlines: You’ve got the entire Southern California Armenian population in an uproar and prepared to boycott Laker games! I’m sure you didn’t know how the Armenian community would react, Kobe, though probably only a
I read about some obscure American Law from 1917 – that would allow Julian Assange to be tried in the U.S. as some kind of a war criminal – based on the Aussie’s “treasonous” actions; what with releasing all those “top secret” and “classified” documents on the Internet, and, by extension, to the entire world.
Everybody and their sister are throwing around the concept of “scaffolding” in educational circles these days – and most are using the term/concept incorrectly. The most literal translation of the wild Russian’s (Vygotsky) concept of “scaffolding” (created in part by his resentment of Piaget – and the need to explain human social development more completely
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One of my college students recently announced that he was gay — during the presentation he was giving to the class. Such a disclosure was unprecedented for me. It didn’t bother me in the slightest – but it did make me curiouser and curiouser; for scant weeks before this particular event, I learned of 3
How has Halloween become the Number One American holiday? Is it the American escapist desire? Has Hollyweird got everyone wanting to play dress-up?? Or, is Poe’s “Masque of Red Death” somehow playing itself out alongside the death of capitalism??? I’ll tell you one thing, Halloween stores are popping up like mushrooms; and, when we called
I’m sure that most of my readers have heard of the California city of Bell – and how the city elders fleeced their constituents (I doubt anyone knows for exactly how much). I’m pretty sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg! This type of graft is probably operative in about 90% of
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When some of my college students asked me how I was voting on Proposition 19 (the legalization of marijuana) – I told them that I had stopped voting right after the First Bush Coup. I certainly didn’t mean to disappoint them (as a non-voting professor) – but I think, perhaps, they might have been a
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When I heard about the film, “Waiting for Superman” being made by the same fellow who made “An Inconvenient Truth – I figured that this guy would also have something to say about education, after all, some of the information in “An Inconvenient Truth” – was profoundly accurate. Sadly, Davis Guggenheim doesn’t know a whole
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