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I’m not going to get into the entire politics of prosecuting former Bush administration officials. Same thing with the efficacy of torture. You can argue that’s it’s useful, morally defensible, better than what we could expect from “them,” not even technically torture by legal definitions, etc. You can make up hypothetical situations where my family can [...]

As a high school teacher, I’m obviously an acute observer of all things fashionable. Yet as spring turns into summer, and the temperature rises above 80, there’s only one fashion choice that leaves me confused. I’ll call it Summer Gothic Juggalo. (Yes, amateur sociologists, I’m well aware of the differences between these two groups. However, [...]

Latest crime report from the Tribune: Look at young Byron Eugene Hamilton over there. Not that’s a high-achiever! Only nine and he knows how to drive and is leaning to drink and drive (albeit a bit unsuccessfully at this point). That might even be his own apartment listed in the crime sheet.
I bet his basket [...]

As an English teacher, I always have to stick up for myself when my students assume my weak math skills caused me to choose English as a major. I try to throw out some quick computing skills when given a chance, like dividing a 374 page book into equal reading assignments. (What I try not [...]

Tomorrow my student teacher begins her unit on Elie Wiesel’s Night. I actually read it for the first time last week. (Yeah, I know it’s one of the most taught Sophomore books, but it was like To Kill a Mockingbird and kept getting away from me.) I haven’t taught Holocaust literature since my first year, [...]

Ever take a picture that’s so typical, traditional , and touristy that it probably bores everyone else yet continuously stuns you? I took a lot of those in Turkey. After spending a week in somebody else’s country, I’d like to write a post on the people I met, with some in-depth sociological comments about how [...]