I am a constant Twitter user. I began using Twitter in March 2009. My divorce was causing me to shed friends like glaciers calve icebergs and I needed a way to connect with people. Many people I run across don’t understand Twitter and I spend time trying to educate them about appropriate Twitter use. Twitter…
NPR ran a story this morning concerning policy changes within federal law enforcement agencies pertaining to racial profiling. These new policies stipulate no federal law enforcement agency may use race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation in order to justify suspicion or open a case. http://www.npr.org/v2/?i=369276296&m=369276297&t=audio One of the comments caught my attention this morning. The statement…
Several of my past essays grouse about higher education not being particularly nimble places despite administrators who implore faculty to be more so while they themselves are anything but nimble. My own workplace is warming to the idea the institution is not as nimble as we would like. My hopes are some administrators are awakening…
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks. Simon Garfield. Gotham Books. Paperback. $17. Mr. Garfield’s book might also have the subtitle of, “Why you should care about the geography of Liberty City.” For those of you who are not familiar with Liberty City, allow me to fill you in. While…
American Nations. Colin Woodard. Viking Adult. 2011. Softcover. $20. After reading a couple chapters of American Nations, I was struck by two thoughts. First, U.S. citizens carry a lie of American History around in their heads, mistakenly believing they know the basic tenets of the founding principles upon which the United States was predicated. Second,…
The United States government is on the verge of committing one of the gravest mistakes in the history of any modern government – eliminating the U.S. decennial census. Every legitimate, and in the case of North Korea and Syria, illegitimate government conducts a census of all inhabitants at some regular interval. Even the Soviets collected…
> http://blogs.census.gov/censusblog/ One of the best ways to learn about the United States is too look at Census Statistics, or to look at U.S.A Trade data. Why do we call the region south of the Ohio River the Bible Belt? How do we know people are moving to the Southwest? If you want to live…
>Young Americans Increasingly Diverse, Census Finds Actually, the title of this article should read, “America is Less White Than 10 Years Ago.” Something like that. That American is less White than in the past should come as no surprise. White America reflects the same lack of population growth that Europe is experiencing. White America is…
>On a whim, I bought my first Repairman Jack novel, “Harbinger.” Anyone who has read a Repairman Jack novel, by F. Paul Wilson will realize what came next. I bought my second Repairman Jack novel, “Hosts.” And then I bought “Gateways” and “Crisscross,” which I am reading now. I bought “Infernal” on Friday. No, I…
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