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• THANK YOU, TEACHERS

  By TC Weber on March 14, 2022 • ( 1 )

  “I said, ‘The truth is whatever you can get away with.’ ‘No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.” ― Greg Egan,         I hope those of you enjoying Spring Break this week are using… Read More ›

• SHOWING LOVE TO WHERE YOU START FROM

  By TC Weber on March 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if,… Read More ›

• NASHVILLE’S LAST SCHOOL BOARD RACE

  By TC Weber on March 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “One person presents their story each day; no one has to be Sigmund Freud to figure out these were men who grew so tired of being wounded, they went out and wounded something else.” ― Stephen Reid, A Crowbar in… Read More ›

• THE ONE WHERE PINKY AND THE BRAIN HIRE A HENCHWOMAN

  By TC Weber on March 4, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.” ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House  … Read More ›

• WHAT DID YOU SAY?

  By TC Weber on February 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many… Read More ›

• THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER

  By TC Weber on February 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.” ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist   Watching the conversations around the Governor’s proposed reforming of Tennessee’s school funding formula(BEP) over the past several months has… Read More ›

• ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

  By TC Weber on February 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “We don’t like being out of the loop.” “You’re always out of the loop. The loop’s miles away. Nearest you’ll get to being in the loop is when they make a documentary about it and show it on the History… Read More ›

• THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET INTERESTING

  By TC Weber on February 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.” ― Philip Roth   Like everything in our lives these days, there is a concentrated effort to depict education policy through a political lens. As if one party… Read More ›

• IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT THE DETAILS

  By TC Weber on February 18, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” ― P.J. O’Rourke I spent my formative years in a small rural community in the Pocono’s. For those of you not familiar, the Poconos… Read More ›

• FLIP FLOPPIN AWAY

  By TC Weber on February 14, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  “I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” ― will smith   Those of you who have done a little fishing likely are aware of what happens when you take a fish off the hook… Read More ›