Sarah Palin is dead. Politically speaking, anyway. And I am sad.
But not too sad. Because I refuse to believe she will ever really go away. Whenever the wind whispers the word abortion in a pregnant teenager’s ear, Sarah Palin will be there to Fight For Life. Wherever presidential candidates are palling around with terrorists, Sarah [...]
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Yeah … this is an essay about JRR Tolkien, the hero’s journey and how it applies to flameouts in [...]
I’m not one for penning tiny blog posts to share a single link without, you know, yammering on for several paragraphs about what I think about it … but the following essay in the Washington Post is such an excellent little opinion piece that I’m going to let it speak for itself. Mostly.
I knew that [...]
We hear a lot about the underfunded education system, both here and in the United States. We hear about a lack of teachers, old and outdated textbooks, no money for special needs education, cutbacks in fine arts classes and book shortages so extreme that in some schools children are not allowed to take their books [...]
Far be it from me to take issue with the inanity of an article that appears in the Sunday Star … but one begins to wonder after a while if that paper (interesting as it sometimes is) is becoming the newspaper equivalent of academics who talk to hear the sound of their own voices spouting [...]
Since the latest movie opens this week and the final Harry Potter book is only a few weeks away, it seems like a suitable time to smack the little boy wizard back to his rightful place. Just so he doesn’t get out of line.
In a poll taken in Britain, Harry Potter is only the third-best [...]