The place I think of as home, East Church Street in Eden, New York, includes plenty of memories covered in snow, and winters that seemed...

Joy, hope and opportunity. This may just be my new and last mantra, my simple way of both reminding myself as to what is most important...

Looks pretty good. I never had any talent in music. Did not like the teacher. And who takes 'reading' these days? in eighth grade?

Thoughts on the false idea that the sharing economy is anything new. We have long had an economy where people leverage their idle...

When I reflect on my college days, I sometimes have to marvel at all the many little entrepreneurial acts and hacks that helped me to...

In 1958, my parents moved our family to Eden, ten of us, with two more children soon to arrive. We joined the Immaculate Conception...

...or solve your problems.

February 14, 2023. In the spring of 1973, I graduated from SUNY Binghamton. I had interviewed in Chicago for a job with Nalco, where...

Is college worth it? Probably not, as analyzed here and here. A college education, completed at the full "list price" of hundreds if not...

Mark Steyn has quipped about rich countries "being rich enough to be this stupid."Yes, elite colleges can be this stupid, rich as they...

Equity and equality nonsense. And more here, including this cartoonish nonsense: The new mantra for American universities is DIE, or...

The very best curator of invaluable critical thinking I have found on the internet. The last link -- a significant critique of the...

Musings The same people who claim that January 6 was a domestic terrorist attack are the same who claim that the protracted votes to...

Jonathan Haidt has been an insightful critic of our social malaise, despair and schism, from his position at NYU. Based on this...

December 25, 2022. Meanwhile, on campus, the dumbing deviancy down phenomenon is running full speed ahead, apparently towards either a...

December 19, 2022. While progressives talk about the "value" of an education and try to defend the cost of an education today, they can't...

And it is pretty much all of their own doing. Some of what prompted this post came from this recent research. College students believe...

Below is my selfie from playground duty last week, before the freeze set in. November 16, 2022. Okay, it may have added up to an inch....

November 2022. Halloween 2022 trick or treating -- this past Monday night -- ended with a visit from six young women from my eighth grade...

November 2, 2022. The combination is depressing. To look at the bright side, better to catch it well before Spain and we can always use...