Don’t ask me why, but my high-powered brain turned toward education this week, and I decided to compare my birth state to my adoptive state. Check out the following tables: New York spends a lot more than North Carolina on public education—$14,663 more per pupil, to be precise. But New York doesn’t allocate its education …
I’m going to describe my bright high school years, and I want to know if my high school experience reminds you of another social dynamic that exists in the United States today. Here we go. Bright High School Years I went to high school on Long Island in the late 70s. The town I lived …
We’re barely one month into the new year, and my white privilege has been on fire. Here are three prime examples of what I mean. The Glories of White Privilege CVS Pharmacy Visit On January 2, Mrs. Groovy and I went to our local CVS to pick up a prescription and a couple of electric …
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For the longest time, I thought the secret to being a responsible consumer of news was to consume news from a variety of ideologically diverse news sources. Watch Fox News and MSNBC, listen to Rush Limbaugh and NPR, and be a frequent visitor of aggregation sites such as Real Clear Politics, Real Clear Markets, and …
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In my life, I’ve come across a number of things that harmlessly defied the cultural norm. Here are some examples. The Wiz came to Broadway when I was in high school. Stephanie Mills, “Ease On Down the Road,” funky monkeys—it was a wonderful African-American take on The Wizard of Oz. When I was attending Buffalo …