New Orleans There was a filler article in the local paper that one read in some desperation for a touch of news on a Thanksgiving morning. The upshot of the sympathetically written article reprinted from the Washington Post focused on how hard it was to find jobs “doing good” especially for young people committed …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Low-Income Ivy Sweepstakes
Washington Here’s another news flash. Seems some of your super-expensive ivy league and ivy league wannabe schools have realized that it is just too damned expensive for low (and moderate?) income students and their parents to have a shot at breaking the iron cage of social stratification in our country. Somehow a four year …
What in the World!
New York As the late great Hunter Thompson, king of gonzo journalism, used to write, “…and then things began to get weird.” Seems that some of this is everywhere around us now. A couple of recent items ran the gamut of these items. For example: * Alex Rodriguez, mainly known as a baseball player, but …