News - 21 Marzo Buried Under a Mountain of Student Debt: But Do You Really Need a College Degree? Educators know that college may not be for everyone. There are all kinds of aptitudes, skills, talents, and abilities—and above all, motivations and interests. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are all college dropouts. Sadly though, it’s politically incorrect to acknowledge that people are different and that there are many ways to fulfill your potential, find a rewarding occupation and earn a good living. Our young people have been blinded to the many possibilities that exist and we educators are too paralyzed by political correctness to give them sound and realistic advice.
News - 25 Febbraio Trumpworld, the GOP and Personal Loyalty: Kiss the Ring Until it’s Tarnished Moral baseness reached even greater depths when those like McConnell and Haley, who metaphorically had crawled in the mud almost to the finish line, did a complete turnaround when it became politically expedient to abandon the “leader” they had formerly admired, praised and enabled. It is especially McConnell though, who should inspire the greatest contempt because it was he who set the tone among the Republican legislators that enabled Trump to crash through one moral boundary after another. It was he who could have put the brakes on the moral slide.
News - 10 Febbraio The Incredible World of Child Activists: They’re Scared, but Want to Save the World Young people are scared and angry when they think about the future, their own and that of the planet. As we see in "Tomorrow Belongs to Us" (Demain est à nous) , the only thing that mitigates this fear is the feeling that they can exercise some control over the outcome, and the way to do that is to do something about it. We grownups have guzzled gas and water, thrown away food while millions were starving, eradicated forests to make more boxes, clogged the oceans—and their life forms—with plastic bags, and poisoned the air with fossil fuel fumes. These children activists know who is to blame for their gloomy future: us.
Lifestyles - 28 Gennaio My COVID “Disguise”: Does Wearing a Mask Change Who I Am? “We are actors on the stage of our own theater, and we script a role for ourselves through ‘impression management’”. Speaking from personal experience, I sorely miss my wardrobe. As I prepared for work each day to teach at my college, I could choose what part of my personality I wanted to act out that day. Did I feel mysterious and sophisticated? Go for the black on black. How about girly and casual? Sporty and active? All possibilities. Now that I work from home I’m no longer “performing” in front of my audience, I dress for my daily run and yoga instead because….
News - 20 Gennaio Trump’s Departure: Gone but Sadly, Not Likely to Be Soon Forgotten The armed criminal supporters--the “pied pipers of Trumpism"-- that stormed the Capitol in what can only be considered an attempted coup d’état, have not only changed the way that the long-established Inauguration ceremony can take place today, they have undermined the security of America and democracy tomorrow and all the days to follow. The nation is divided and nothing makes this clearer than the number of votes that Biden and Trump each received. With 85 to 74 million, the nation is almost equally divided in half. Newly sworn in President Joe Biden talks of universal love, unity and empathy, but I think that the ship of brotherly love in America sailed a while ago.
News - 15 Gennaio Impeaching Trump: Think of it As Washing Our Hands Clean for History The impeachment and subsequent trial are not for us who lived through his presidency; they are to set the record straight for our grandchildren and theirs, on the viciousness of the Trump presidency, and must be a cautionary tale about what happens when an incorrigible president who was already impeached once, continues his sustained attack on our nation, its institutions and democracy itself.
News - 7 Gennaio The Results of Trump’s Demagoguery and Autocratic Abuse On Display at the Capitol The shocking sights that the world was subjected to on January 6, 2021, as Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. should not have taken any careful observer of the Trump presidency by surprise. It was the day some of us had been dreading and fearing for a long time. Indeed, it was the […]
News - 4 Gennaio Where’s My Covid-19 Vaccine? Here Is the Real Situation According to the Doctors It seems obvious that the frontline of the medical profession, our family doctors, were overlooked in the planning stage when purchase orders were being placed. No matter what you hear in the media about getting vaccinated ASAP, this is more fiction than reality. As the Trump Administration was unprepared to stem the spread of the coronavirus, they are now equally unprepared to administer the vaccines that could put a speedy end to it.
News - 10 Dicembre 2020 Covid-19: Your Kiddies Won’t Be Making Cookies with Grandma This Christmas All age groups are dealing with specific challenges, but grandma and grandpa are in a group by themselves. As parents you still have many decades ahead of you to make new memories with your children, but sad as it is to state the obvious, grandparents are on a reverse countdown. No hugs, no kisses, no human warmth. Their remaining time is limited and the isolation imposed by Covid-19 is robbing them of these precious moments.
News - 23 Novembre 2020 How Peddling False Optimism and Covid-19 Denial Cost Trump Re-election Narcissists like Trump are, by definition, too self-absorbed to be able to care about the collective welfare. When a president cares more about his chances for re-election than about the death of 250,000+ people and insists that, “We are rounding the corner" when in fact we’re heading into an unprecedented surge in cases, then he does not deserve to lead.