I’m having trouble getting my thoughts together after reading this Washington Post story about a few parents that are dealing with the deaths of their infant children, after they forgot they were in the back seat of the car on a hot summer day.
One thing I can say is that the writing is masterful, and […]
Here is the entire e-mail I sent to Spotsylvania Supervisor Jerry Logan referenced in Mr. Telvock’s story, County’s Inaction Costs its Neighbors, http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2009/032009/03082009/450654 in the FLS. As you can see it covers a bit…
Despite calls for his resignation that began practically the week after he was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia last year, Jeff Frederick has managed to stay out of reach of the old guard’s grasp.Chairman Frederick is blamed relentl…
Things look like they’ve crystallized for our May chasing trip to the Plains. I’ll be meeting my brother (who is driving up from Austin) at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport the morning of May 7th, meaning I get my rear end out of bed at oh-dark-thirty tha…
Kate Chase and William SpraguePolitics and Gender in a Civil War Marriageby Peg A. LamphierUniversity of Nebraska Press, Lincoln Nebraska, 2003ISBN 0-8032-2947-XKate Chase was the beautiful and brilliant daughter of Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Tr…
Below is a writeup I did showing the benefits of having a live music event every Friday downtown. The feedback has been positive, but I’m not sure if that’s a positive I’ll take this up and push it forward, or that sounds nice type positive. Read away,…
The Meming of Life » Isn’t this enough? Parenting Beyond Belief on secular parenting and other natural wonders – This 9 minute poem, art piece, whatever you want to call it is really brilliant.
The Washington Post reports that on Monday President Obama will fix our incoherent federal funding policy for embryonic stem cell research. The policy, instituted by President Bush in August 2001, restricts federal funding to research using only cell lines in existence at the time. That small set of contaminated lines proved far too limited to supply […]
Welcome to my first foray into local Spotsylvania County politics; why do I have a feeling that this is going to end bad?
As my readers (all three two of you) may know, fellow blogger D.J. McGuire has announced his run for the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors for the Lee Hill District. I hadn’t gotten […]
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson got together with a group of educators, thinkers, and entrepreneurs today to brainstorm how to hack education to make it relevant again.
Fred’s quick list of takeaways from the day is quite interesting.
1) The student (and his/her parents) is increasingly going to take control of his/her education including choice of schools, teachers, […]
