I used to listen to Freakonomics, an interesting podcast, until it called nuclear energy clean and nonpolluting. I haven’t listened to any since. I really don’t appreciate fake news and junk science. Radiation kills, okay? It causes cancers, birth defects, and if one gets enough of it, radiation kills promptly, as it did in Hiroshima, […]

An ordinary hypocrite would know better than to demand absolute freedom of speech for his friends and deny it to his critics in the next breath. But then Donald J. Trump is no ordinary hypocrite. Because that’s exactly what the president did last week. When social media giant Facebook announced that it was banning a […]

For over two decades, I served as an educator in York County. Each year that I taught in the classroom, I recognized the power of our educational system. It’s clear that every step of the educational continuum is important. Our high schools provide valuable workforce training skills, the middle school curriculum focuses on instilling healthy […]

Last month I attended a trio of funerals, each of which honored an extraordinary person who, if life span was based on kindness or merit, would have been granted significantly more Earthly time. The departures of that triumvirate provided further verification that bad things do indeed come in threes. That well-known theorem has been accepted […]

In European restaurants, dishes on the menu have footnotes, numbers that are a key to the food allergies of each item.. The European Union has issued a rule requiring this information.  To some, this rule might seem like overkill. Maybe customers should take of themselves. That sort of EU power was the main issue in […]

I saw a news report that some educational venue is offering a course in “adulting” to 20-somethings, because it seems that there are a bunch of 29-year-olds out there who don’t know how to run a dishwasher or make a cup of coffee. Someone thinks that if they can learn how to do those things, […]