Author Archives
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A NEVER ENDING STREAM OF CONFUSION
“The good news for the Washington Federals is they do not have a quarterback controversy. The bad news is they do not have a quarterback.” ― Jeff Pearlman, Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the… Read More ›
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HARD PLUS INCONVENIENT DOES NOT EQUAL INEFFECTIVE
“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” ― William Kent… Read More ›
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GUTCHECK
“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir You would think that if a politician stood in front of a room full of microphones and made… Read More ›
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LET’S SEE WHAT CREDO HAS TO SAY
“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to… Read More ›
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A FIRING OFFENSE
“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking themselves to document it. Little sparks cause fires, too.” ― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark… Read More ›
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DOES IT EVER STOP?
“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.” ― Patti Smith One might have thought that three days of posts on education practices and policies in Tennessee would suffice, they would be wrong. Today I turn away from… Read More ›
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DID THE GOVERNOR COMMISSION A BIRD?
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening… Read More ›
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REPRESENTATIVE MARK WHITE’S INCREDIBLY FANTASTIC PROM DATE
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” ― Anton Chekhov Yesterday Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn made a long-anticipated appearance before the Tennessee House Education Committee as part of their Summer study…. Read More ›
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WHAT’S LEFT WHEN THERE ARE NO GOOD OR BAD CHOICES?
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. There, there, said Piglet. I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh “You are either the sort of person who shapes society, or the sort… Read More ›
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PROCEED AT YOUR OWN PERIL
“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.” ― Terry Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation “The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 