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Monthly Archives: July 2012

NRA fantasies and fallacies

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 24, 2012Leave a comment

    If the gun lobby is to be our guide, he exercised his Second Amendment rights in ways our founders intended — using arms to keep an invasive government at bay.    His weapons did just that, until law enforcement disarmed or removed all the explosive devices James Holmes rigged up in his Aurora, Colo.,…

Ablaze over Olympian blazers

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 18, 2012Leave a comment

  Jerry Seinfeld was gold — gold, I tell ya — when he said, in effect, all sports fans do is root for laundry.   Whatever the sport: We may hardly know the players, but what stirs us to song is the colors they wear.   So, what song emanates when the laundry is Chinese, yet…

‘Raising the bar’ sounds smart, but . . .

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 11, 2012Leave a comment

   Alyssa Sturgeon had me at “metaphors.”    I teach college students to appreciate analogy. Sometimes it’s like yanking out a molar with rubber hose.    Alyssa gets analogy. She’s in fourth grade.    She wrote a letter to thet editor of the Vero Beach Press Journal to wonder how the state could have flunked…

Executioners of neighborhood schools

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 5, 2012Leave a comment

    Two disasters blackened the blast-furnace summer of 2011 in Texas. Against one, man was defenseless: the duo of drought and fire. The first took almost half a billion trees. The later, nearly 4,000 homes.      It was horrific, but only marginally worse than what the Legislature did to Texas schools. That disaster was…

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