I’ve written before about the symbolism of the hanging scene in Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove”, which first appeared on TV in 1989. (You’d be the better for having watched it.) I’ve written at least three (2014, 2016 and 2020)…
Category: Education
Teaching the Lost who Don’t Know they are Lost; Basic Considerations
Just sit down for a moment and try to get you head around that notion; “People who are Lost, but don’t know they are Lost”. Consider the popular fairy tale “Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf”, originally from…
The Iffiness in Science that makes Everything a Coin Flip
I have several fits-and-starts in my stack of stuff, all centering around scientific debates not just about how human history is written, but how human achievement is defined, going back long before history could be written. Just pausing to think…
The “Nourished by Outrage” Crowd, It’s Time for them to Sort Themselves Out
You all recognize this young lady… …in response to what else? Outrage. Sweetie Pie has always been my poster girl for a generational mindset of psychological imbalance gained almost exclusively at home and in schools the parent(s) had selected for…
“Idiocracy” is Finally Upon Us
This sci-fi comedy from 2006, by Mike Judge (Beavis and Buttlead cartoons, a favorite of both my sons) has been growingly mentioned since the first pratfall of the Biden Administration early this year. (Scroll to the bottom to see it…