Squadrito: School Security Can Be Managed at a Cost
by Joe Squadrito For two decades now our political leaders and school officials have been attempting to deal with the tragedies which have occurred in our school systems. The senseless slaughter of our children and educators has prompted numerous proposals ranging in firearms legislation to mental health intervention. Some of these proposals have merit and are Read the full article…
Morris: The Legislature Grapples With Sex Education
by Leo Morris Let’s hear a faint word of encouragement for “family values,” that concept heaped with so much derisive scorn by too many liberals and showered with so much empty praise by too many conservatives. These values are weaker than ever at a time when we need them to be stronger than ever. I Read the full article…
There, We’ve Said It: Young People Are Overrated
(For the use of the membership only, not for publication, distribution, quotation or reproduction.) “Our parents don’t know how to use a ******* democracy, so we have to.” — David Hogg, 18, an organizer of the “March for Our Lives” protests. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ASSUMED to have magical qualities. They are the future, it is said Read the full article…
Eco-Devo Questions Down the Memory Hole
For the use of the membership only. COMPLAINING ABOUT what a newspaper doesn’t print is like complaining about a shoe store that doesn’t carry your size. But not exactly. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution sets newspapers above other businesses, extends privileges that would land the owner of a shoe store in jail. In Read the full article…
Morris: School Shootings and Climate Change
by Leo Morris I am a heartless monster who doesn’t care that our children are being slaughtered in their schools. I am an inhuman fiend indifferent to the plight of future generations who will inherit the ravaged planet we will leave them. I will be saddened but not terribly surprised if that is a common Read the full article…
The Crash Landing of a Supermajority
by Craig Ladwig A prominent Indiana Republican stopped by a few days before this session ended to deliver a self-aggrandizing lecture on the difference between holding office and merely “spouting philosophy.” There was a day that some of us here would have conceded the point. Today is not that day. A Republican supermajority made a Read the full article…
