June 9, 2024

Hillbilly Xenophobes for Trump

“They are ‘undocumented immigrants’ seeking asylum desperate to escape tyranny and poverty.  How dare you call these poor human beings ‘aliens’?  Have you no compassion?  You’re just a...

August 15, 2023

Parents as Obstacles to Education?

Decades of research into children's educational achievement repeatedly demonstrate the absolute necessity of parental engagement.  Ranging from 1966 with the classic Coleman report to 2007 with a longitudinal NICHD study, parents and th...

June 12, 2022

You'll Never Escape COVID

Nobody expects an inquisition, except maybe in the catacombs of The Science™, where one may hear among the screams: "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess."  Career pressures of publish-or-perish coupled with ...

February 1, 2021

Crossing the Digital Rubicon

For an easy laugh at a party, pull out a Nokia candy-bar phone.  “What is that…a phone?”  “Does it actually work?”  “Oh!  Do you have to hit buttons three times and stuff?”  “C...