“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 ›
Education
FLIP FLOPPIN AWAY
“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 ›
A REAL DAMP SQUIB
I have learned that the ambition of those who follow selfish precepts is no more than a chaotic waste, a finite gain that must be followed by infinite loss. For there is indeed a harmony in the universe, a concordant… Read More ›
IN SEARCH OF INFORMED PATRIOTISM
“Love truth, but pardon error.” ― Voltaire Yesterday I was traveling home from Luna Records when I passed the bus station. I did a quick double-take upon spotting my buddy Slotsky standing there with a suitcase in hand. “What… Read More ›
PEEKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN
“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.” ― Jean Toomer This weekend I’ve came to the conclusion that I have to get someone to ban this column. I don’t know who, but nothing… Read More ›
BANNING BOOKS IN 2022
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.”― Kate… Read More ›
BUILDING A RESUME
“And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time though nobody said it aloud.” — D.H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse… Read More ›
MORE THAN JUST IDLE CHATTER
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.” ― Gore Vidal, Julian I meant to start today’s piece off with a quote from Martin Luther King, but unfortunately, I failed… Read More ›
AS THE HAMSTER WHEEL TURNS
“Children accept the world as they find it; I took it for granted that all civilized men hid behind walls, and that the open country belonged to barbarians, but I also took it for granted that barbarians could never get… Read More ›
LET THE REINDEER GAMES BEGIN
“You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.” ― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be? This week marks the official return of both MNPS students and Tennessee… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 