Dauphine Island “Life happens,” was a quote from one of the three young women from south Texas who believed so completely that education would change their lives, and perhaps more significantly, redirect their fate and future from the path of their parents to a brighter new world of opportunity. The Times story was unfair to these …
Month: December 2012
Anonymous and The “Do-ocracy”
Dauphine Island The loose assemblage of computer activists and hackers that came together from time to time to protest or, more often, wreck havoc on what they perceived to be threats on internet freedom or their allies like Wikileaks or Occupy Wall Street is an interesting organizational phenomenon in my view because it defies easy …
Oil Field, Big Money, Big debt or School?
Dauphine Island A front page article in the Times blurted out that “Pay in Oil Fields, Not College, Is Luring Youths in Montana,” as if they were sounding the alarm that perverts were roaming loose in the playgrounds. A 19-year old was shown in front of his new, black GM Silverado pickup in …