Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Heartbreak

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Being a teacher sometimes means heartbreak. I am in the middle of my second year as a High School teacher. One of my students, a 17 year old...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Schrodinger's pornography

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According to some, the average American commits 3 felonies a day . In fact, I have blogged about this numerous times in the past . It used ...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Two posts in one!

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I have spent the four years since I retired largely without health insurance. Since I was paying as I went, I only saw a doctor when I had a...
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Friday, September 18, 2015

Prosper

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Three years ago , I opened an account at Prosper . I opened the account with $50 as a test of the company. I loaned $50 for 60 months at 23....
Monday, September 14, 2015

Reasonable discussion

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The anti gunners keep saying that they want a reasonable discussion about gun control. Here is how a recent discussion that I had with an ...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Sigh. The parents are even worse.

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In the writing assignment here , I assigned this paper to my 120 students. Here is the breakdown: Of the 60 who turned in the assignment: ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

A new dark age

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When I was in school, we were all taught that the period of time between the collapse of the Roman empire and the beginning of the Italian R...
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Friday, September 11, 2015

Trustworthy, or not?

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I became a teacher after I retired from over 20 years as a firefighter and paramedic, where I spent part of my career working with the SWAT...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Police State

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The following is a list of the law enforcement agencies with a presence in Washington, DC: First, there are the Feds. There are over 6,000...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

You are required to help the police

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or you will go to jail. How is that? A man named Devonte Conerly who was suspected in a hit and run incident, and was allegedly tried to d...
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