Experience and Education is a short and sweet book by John Dewey (no, the library decimal system was created by Melvil Dewey, an unrelated man, although they lived basically at the same time) written towards the end of his career as a sort of “here’s how I see where we’re at” look at education at…
Month: June 2016
Brexit, Breximus, Brexitis: Britain Votes to Leave the EU
Although the final votes haven’t been counted at the time of this writing, the United Kingdom has voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. The European Union is a complicated thing. I’ll be damned if I’m summarizing it here at this late hour. You people can use Wikipedia. The very oversimplified summary of…
Profile of the Orlando Shooter
Now that the dust has settled, I can slake the still thirsty among you who want more juice on the Orlando nightclub shooting. My contention is that I already wrote about it. Here’s the profile on the killer. Here’s the discussion on guns. The articles could use some clean-up and tweaking, as any product seen…