A Writer’s Blog

  • Anya Kamenetz: “A Nation at Risk” Cooked the Books

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era Commission “cooked the books.” Kamenetz interviewed two of the original commission members and learned that the commission knew its conclusion in advance, then… Read more

  • Queen Eva’s Gambit

    Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: In the New York Post today there was a headline that read “Charter school upsets juggernaut Stuyvesant HS on way to chess crown” It began in dramatic fashion. The US hockey team beating the mighty Soviets at the 1980 Olympics, Mike Tyson being knocked out by Buster Douglas… Read more

  • Failing at Dating the Third Time around at Seventy-Two

    Why is internet dating at my age so difficult and disappointing? Read more

  • To Blindly Obey … or Not

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: The fictional Ohio class nuclear-powered U.S. ballistic missile submarine Colorado picks up a Seal Team leaving Pakistan after a secret mission there. One of the Seals has been shot. Then the sub receives questionable orders through an old cold war network out of Alaska to nuke Pakistan.… Read more

  • The Kremlin’s Agent Orange Donald Trump wants to execute all drug dealers

    Does Donald Trump know anything about what the U.S. Constitution says about due process rights and does he care? Read more

  • What You Need to Know about ALEC, the Koch Brothers, the DeVos Family, and Privatization

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: This article was written in 2015 but it is as timely today as it was then. Maybe more timely, because in 2015, who would have dreamed that Betsy DeVos would soon be U.S. Secretary of Education? The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a bill mill founded in… Read more