The new three R’s of School Days: Rancor. Rants. Retaliation. And forget the hickory stick. We’re not singing that tune anymore. In Clayton County alone, the school system reports that fights are up some 200% over the same period last year and we are only one month into the new school year. The district had already banned bookbags and lockers because of an increase in weapons … [Read more...] about August 28, 2022: The Answer to School Violence Begins At Home
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August 21, 2022: What This Angry World Needs Is More Hope
My friend, Norm Solon, was a journalist and speech writer for some of the major companies and trade associations in the country. Now retired, he recently shared with me some of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities he experienced in his long and distinguished career. For starters, how being at the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, which sent Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to … [Read more...] about August 21, 2022: What This Angry World Needs Is More Hope
August 14, 2022: What Would Will Rogers Think Of Today’s Republicans?
American humorist Will Rogers once observed, “I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.” There is no question that if ol’ Will was around today, he would probably be a Republican. The Grand Old Party gives new meaning to the term disorganized. For example, former University of Georgia football legend Herschel Walker is the Republican nominee for … [Read more...] about August 14, 2022: What Would Will Rogers Think Of Today’s Republicans?
August 7, 2022: Some Random Thoughts On Some Random Subjects
Fourteenth Century Italian writer Dante Alighieri in his “Divine Comedy” describes Hell as a place for those who have perverted “their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen." He could have been describing Alex Jones and his Infowars followers. For the past decade, this incorrigible blowhard has claimed the massacre in which twenty children and six … [Read more...] about August 7, 2022: Some Random Thoughts On Some Random Subjects
July 31, 2022: An Open Letter To Georgia’s Public Schoolteachers
DEAR TEACHERS: Let me begin my annual message to you as I am going to end it: Thank you. Thank you for your willingness to go back into the classroom once again this year in spite of every roadblock imaginable. A lot of your colleagues have thrown in the towel and decided that the teaching isn’t worth the hassle. It is and you know it because you have a chance to make a … [Read more...] about July 31, 2022: An Open Letter To Georgia’s Public Schoolteachers