Outside the box? What Box?

by | Jul 21, 2017 | Writing

“No particular concentration or area of study is inherently a better ticket to security, leadership, or personal satisfaction than another. Students should be encouraged to follow their passions and interests, not what they guess (or what others tell them) will...

Definitions of Government types

by | Jul 21, 2017 | Ideas

I spent most of my life ignoring the greater political world, and realistically I’ve spent most of my life ignoring even the smaller political world. Or at least, I’ve pretended to spend a large portion of my life ignoring politics, but really, I’ve...

When there’s snow all over, just shut it down.

by | Jul 21, 2017 | Thinking

There are a lot of things I’m not particularly fond of which seem to be gaining popularity. A little bit earlier this year we had “Black Friday”, (Something I’m already not a fan of) only this year it pretty broadly encroached on Thanksgiving;...

Habits for future us

by | Jul 21, 2017 | Ideas

I don’t have children. This shouldn’t come as a shocker to anyone who knows me even one iota. It’s not that I don’t like kids, although they do make me nervous for reasons I won’t go in to right now; it’s that I simply have not had...