I Don't Get It

Bioethicist Daniel Callahan, in a recent editorial published in the Hastings Center Report, suggests that fat people should be shamed into losing weight.  His strategy involves “social pressure combined with vigorous government action.” There are lots of reasons why people are fat.  I’m not about to sit in judgment of why someone is fat because [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “Why Does Tonya Dixon-Neely Have a Job?“   This is the teacher who berated her student who mentioned that President Obama admitted bullying someone when he went to school.  The teacher wouldn’t have any such discussion. In that article, I wrote that she probably won’t lose [...]

By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about Karen Klein, the school bus monitor, who was verbally attacked by a pack of feral teenagers.  This story reminds me of a Stephen King story about mutant kids who believe anyone over 18 should die. Growing up, if I or anyone in my school had done something [...]

Rielle Hunter, the “mistress” (news reports’ name for her, not mine) of John Edwards once described herself to Oprah as a “private person.”  She probably doesn’t know what the word “shame” means and I guess she’s not all that “private” anymore – she’s crawled out of the woodwork to talk about her sordid life in [...]

Anyone who knows me knows that I won’t buy a book, see a movie, or purchase a DVD if it’s written by or stars some idiot actor who spouts off about this country, glorifies tyrants or abuses children.  (Believe me, that leaves relatively few choices but that’s okay.) Case in point:  Woody Allen.  After he [...]

Well, if you don’t know who this upstanding citizen is, let me introduce you.  This is 33-year old Desmond Hatchett, who has the distinction in the state of Tennessee of fathering 30 children with eleven different women. In my day, there was an expression that it was easy to be a father, but hard to [...]

Look at this guy.  He’s  Peter Rettman.  Doesn’t he look like he could be anyone’s grandfather?  He probably is.  But he’s also not a nice guy.  Not because he’s a cross-dresser.  I couldn’t care less.  But because he crossed the line. First of all, he’s reported to be a “renowned stockbroker” and University of Washington [...]

Well, if there’s anyone who thinks there isn’t a political bias in our schools, check out this video clip.  You’ll be hearing a “dialogue” between student,  Hunter Rogers, and social studies teacher, Tonya Dixon-Neely.  The discussion centered around the recent report that Mitt Romney bullied someone in high school decades ago.  The student then raised [...]

I know zilch about sports.  All I know is that “March Madness” annoyingly pre-empts Judge Judy (I want to be Judge Judy when I grow up). So, I REALLY don’t understand stories like this one: “Riot police used pepper spray in small amounts for crowd control as thousands of rowdy fans swarmed into the streets [...]

A year after a major financial scandal hit Seattle involving the Seattle Public Schools, two top officials canned have landed lucrative jobs elsewhere. Former Superintendent, Maria Goodloe-Johnson, is now the top academic officer for the Education Achievement System in Detroit and former Chief Financial Officer, Don Kennedy, moved across country to Connecticut who is temporarily [...]