If ditching cursive is in your script

   I hear the case made against teaching cursive writing, and it tells me this: My third-grade teacher, Miss Coleman, wasted my instructional time.    And heretofore I thought her to be a wonderful lady.    School reformers are saying cursive instruction is pointless because 21st century technology has made it irrelevant.     Understand: School…

I didn’t know you cared

  Excuse me, free-market conservatives, but why the sudden concern over millions set to lose their health insurance?   Did such a problem concern you before President Obama and the Democrats set out to insure more Americans?    Did it? I may have to review my notes.    I’m pretty sure those notes say you said…

Why the hate?

  Based on the advance news clippings, Dallas was a very bad place for John F. Kennedy to visit that day. Based on crowds that were beyond adoring, the clippings were wrong and the moment was very right.    Then, gunshots. Mortal wounds.    Dallas survived, but its convalescence would be excruciating. Few were willing to…

Ah, that plastic outrage

   “Glitches” is miserably inadequate to describe the online fiasco that has crippled the rollout of the Affordable Care Act. An outrage is what it is.     However, outrage from you, Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa.?     You, Congressman Murphy, hammering administration officials last week in Capitol hearings? “We were promised a website where…