Flicking on someone smaller than me June 11, 2010 Apropos the previous post: Who might be smaller than me? Maybe the Trib. I enjoyed this self righteous line from the Finger editorial. “Raised… Continue Reading
Fingering the School Board June 11, 2010 The Trib seems to be slowly waking up to the fury, resigned though it is, over the Duluth School Board’s clueless, high handedness and… Continue Reading
The fourteenth time June 11, 2010 Most of yesterday I spent shepherding my poor sick spouse to the Doctor or tippy-towing around trying not to wake her up. She has… Continue Reading
NOKO June 10, 2010 There is still one place in the world that matches the hell described in Orwell’s 1984. She taught primary school for 30 years in… Continue Reading
Pull yourself together June 10, 2010 I fully agreed with Charles Gessert’s letter in the Trib today about a cartoon a few days back showing Obama encouraging Greasers to cross… Continue Reading
An email June 10, 2010 to the School Board: I will not be reapplying for 2010 DE Boy’s Tennis Head Coach position. Relative to choices and judgments demonstrated by… Continue Reading
And this email June 10, 2010 for you folks with opinions needing airing FYI, the DNT has begun to allow online comments again on their major stories. They pulled that… Continue Reading
Coming to my defense June 10, 2010 Got this email this morning: Your posting from the guy who disagrees with you fails to look at other variables. Many factors create chaos… Continue Reading
over the top June 9, 2010 I’m grateful that one of my readers has taken up my offer to send me an email (which can be accessed from the “talk… Continue Reading
Dixon’s bomb threats June 9, 2010 The Trib has a little story about a second student who has been disciplined for making a bomb threat in his/her school. The first… Continue Reading
Rules? What rules? June 9, 2010 There is a bulldozer running rampant near Piedmont School this morning. Its on private property. The District has spoken to the owner of the… Continue Reading
Let’s be reasonable, shall we? June 9, 2010 I was telling a fellow recently that no matter how tasty a fish dinner is there’s a good chance the kitchen will smell unpleasantly… Continue Reading
Boys and School June 9, 2010 This video has more insight on educating children and particularly boys (although it takes a few entertaining minutes to get to that subject) than… Continue Reading
Arizona low ways June 8, 2010 Maybe the police will ask the kids in the school for their birth certificates. The school is in Arizona afterall. Continue Reading
“HE SAID IT MAY TAKE A DECADE FOR THEM TO COME BACK” June 8, 2010 Maybe this is why Dr. Dixon regularly censored communications from the public to keep his School Board commpliant. This one went to Dr. Dixon… Continue Reading
Wasson’s victory June 8, 2010 Here’s something I’ve never written about before. I was saving it for my book but as I contemplate my race for the Senate it… Continue Reading
Rainy day 2 – the irony of being a first class city June 8, 2010 I crawled out of the basement after spending another five hours of data entry. I made a lot of corrections. Its a shame I… Continue Reading
Plans for a rainy day June 8, 2010 I didn’t just enter data yesterday. I mowed two yards and got a hair cut. (I’ll want to look respectable at the union screening… Continue Reading