May 14, 2021

Three minutes to prison

Here are some facts you may not have known.  On May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin and three other Minneapolis officers arrested George Floyd for trying to pass a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at a small grocery store in South Minneapolis. ...

May 7, 2021

A slow-motion genocide in Chicago

On March 14, 2021, 27 people were shot, four killed in a major American city.  There was little local news coverage of the event; there was no national news coverage.  On March 21, 2021, just a week later, a gunman walked into a Col...

February 27, 2021

Pick up the phone

Ticked off that your kids can't go to school even though the CDC has officially said it is safe for both teachers and kids to be back in the classroom?  Wondering how you can influence things?  Here is an easy way: pick u...

February 22, 2021

A word we should stop using

"Billion" is a word we need to stop using.  It represents such a vast amount that it's vague to the point of meaninglessness to anyone not a mathematician.  Any discussion using "billion" is automatically a...