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An Alternative to a School Suspension or Expulsion
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: I walked to town this morning to see The Family, a film with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. But this post is not about The Family. It’s about a Contra Costa Times headline I saw halfway to the theater about Bay Area schools suspending suspensions and turning…
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Did Calibre and/or Bing hijack my opening page on Google Chrome?
Avoid Calibre’s free ebook management program—even if it is offered through CNET or from the source.
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Clarifying Between Bullying and Critiquing Book Reviews
Originally posted on Falls Into Writing: With the changes in the publishing world, more and more the reader is becoming king. Never has the reader had so much power in what becomes hot or not than now in the age of online reviews for writing. And with the rise in self-publishing where the gatekeeping is now directly in the hands…
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A Summer Vacation from Writing—for the most part
I decided to take some time away from the blades and drills to feed my writing beast a treat.
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A Politically Correct Mob Attacks Dr. Phil
I don’t see Dr. Phil’s question about teen sex as offensive.
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The Food Wars
Who is the New York Post columnist Kyle Smith really working for?
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Interrupting or Ending Civilization—all it takes is the wrong kind of sunshine
Solar flares can cause us to be irritable with short term memory problems.
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Fixing the Self-Esteem Train Wreck
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The self-esteem generation may be fixing the cultural train wreck caused by the average Baby Boomer parent. But before I talk about how the Self-Esteem Generation—known as the Me, Me, Me people or the Millennials—are going to do this, I want to point out some of the damage the Baby Boomer…