Category: Editorial

Consider This Before you Jump on Angelina’s Mastectomy Bandwagon

Consider This Before you Jump on Angelina’s Mastectomy Bandwagon

Before you  run out and buy your breast cancer kit you may want to look into this more. I did a few years ago and made the decision not to get the test for many of the same reasons in this article. Although it is a bit reactionary it provides some good points for consideration. more »

Equal Pay Day

Equal Pay Day

Would love to see this get as much attention as Pi Day then be relegated to a trivia fact that future children marvel at much as we do the thought that women were once not allowed to vote.

Taming the Facebook Kraken

Taming the Facebook Kraken

Facebook is the modern day cyber Kraken.  It’s tentacles reaching into yours and your friends’ personal information.  Facebook tends to operate on the “opt out” model.  Settings default to fully opted in.  With constant partnerships and updates and third party applications and games keeping your personal information is like trying to keep water in a more »

On Supreme Court Decision on Selling Violent Video Games to Children

On Supreme Court Decision on Selling Violent Video Games to Children

You might think with my background as a teacher that I would be outraged by the court’s decision to allow violent video games to be sold to children.  But I’m not. I’m actually happy for the decision.  The solution to this issue is not legislation, but education. If there were a law against selling these more »

Double Dare:  Stand for Love In the Wake of Osama Bin Laden’s Death

Double Dare: Stand for Love In the Wake of Osama Bin Laden’s Death

I almost never watch TV. The other night I felt compelled to turn it on and the screen lit up with the words OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD under live coverage of cheering crowds in front of the White House. As I watched Marianne Williamson’s words rang in my mind. (bold is mine) “A Course more »

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