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skipper wrote a new post, US has Cultural Issue with Education 7 years, 3 months ago
No way, Jose: Like many expensive cities, San Jose, California, is struggling to keep its teachers. Of the 1,400 classroom teachers employed by the San Jose Unified School District, one in seven have to be […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Theologically Speaking 7 years, 3 months ago
Theologically speaking, mariner believes there are so many people alive today that God has arranged to have some of us live longer so God has time to process purgatory before we die instead of afterward. For […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Notes from the Alter Egos 7 years, 3 months ago
Guru speculated about China’s Belt and Road Initiative (in China more often referred to as One Belt One Road or OBOR). Very generally, Belt and Road is China’s plan to be the most powerful economic engine in his […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Merger of CVS and Aetna 7 years, 3 months ago
In what was a disturbing interview on PBS NewsHour between Judy Woodruff and Larry Merlo (CVS CEO), Judy pressed Merlo several times about how the merger will benefit individuals. Continually, Merlo ducked that […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It’s That Time Again 7 years, 3 months ago
Yes, it’s time to write a good Haiku. We haven’t written one for quite a while. For readers who have come aboard recently, mariner has a quirky exercise that disciplines one’s thinking both left-brained and right […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Ballot Initiatives 7 years, 3 months ago
Donald may go away at some point but he has done conservatives a big favor that will last a long, long time: McConnell and Donald now have confirmed 84 judges over the past two years, including two Supreme Court […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The United States Senate 7 years, 4 months ago
Virtually everyone in the US agrees that things are not what they should be for the common citizen. First glance criticism points at inbred party politics; others are concerned about the shifting economy that […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Quick Look Ats 7 years, 4 months ago
֎According to a Bloomberg report last week, China used tiny microchips, placed on server motherboards, to infiltrate nearly 30 American companies including Amazon and Apple. But Amazon and Apple challenged the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Central and South America are Different 7 years, 4 months ago
Mariner promised many posts ago that Guru would investigate Central and South America, which seem to have a separate world history from North America, the West and even an Asian influence. Understand that Guru is […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Good Sources to Interpret Reality 7 years, 4 months ago
Once in a while mariner is asked what his sources are – especially given he doesn’t watch CNN, FOX, MSNBC, HLN, NEWSY and Late Shows. There are a number of channels that try to be balanced and factual:
PBS – P […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Watch the European Union 7 years, 4 months ago
The European Union (EU) is having a more intense disruption with populism, nationalism and a drift toward totalitarianism. We in North America – particularly the US – should pay attention to what’s happening acros […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Belonging is a Feeling 7 years, 4 months ago
There has been an upward tick in visits during the last two posts that dealt with the difference between nationalism and shared personal feeling. It appears that most of us are self-evaluated based on […]
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skipper wrote a new post, VOTE with a new Feeling 7 years, 4 months ago
Mariner’s last post was about an unusually good Global Public Square (GPS) hosted by Fareed Zakaria on Sundays on CNN. Fareed’s subject matter is typically international in nature, dealing with economics and cul […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Good Job, Fareed 7 years, 4 months ago
If the reader missed last Sunday’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria (CNN), you missed an excellent broadcast. Fareed interviewed U2 rock group’s Bono and followed that with an extensive interview with Michael Blo […]
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skipper wrote a new post, What lies ahead 7 years, 4 months ago
Mariner recently posted a metaphor relating the status of the United States, its culture and its economy at war with itself. This cultural war is the result of inadequate regulations on wealth. As if this were not […]
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Mariner has a unique persona, indeed! AI affecting things like life insurance and health insurance is a scary thought. Even without AI, beginning in the 1980’s insurance has made decisions about health practices that only doctors used to make. It is too bad that the AMA was not able to make a stand at that time, but that was also a time when people were beginning to question doctors’ total authority in health matters. Congress could have had oversight of insurance practices, but money, as we know, drives everything. More even than AI, money is the great overlord of our lives.
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skipper wrote a new post, Of Battlefronts 7 years, 4 months ago
Mariner hopes dearly that most of his readers have not experienced a battlefront experience. The noise can be truly deafening; there are bombs, tanks, airplanes, field cannons, grenades, machine guns and incessant […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Everyone’s Main Topic 7 years, 4 months ago
Mariner receives many emails from news services, magazines and news analysts. Today, with a rapid fire sort of experience, mariner copied the following quotes from his emails and could have copied many more:
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skipper wrote a new post, Observations 7 years, 4 months ago
In reference to mariner’s recent post about cronyism, a report from Politico shows a racial pattern in Congress reflective of older folk who still have pre-civil rights attitudes:
“More than 1,000 top House sta […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Contemporary Blood 7 years, 5 months ago
Mariner has lamented in the past that our government representatives do not relate to today’s culture. The existential experience of citizens today is not an experience that folks over 60 can have. He coined the t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Do you know your epitaph? 7 years, 5 months ago
True, tombstones are not so much the fashion today but one should not ignore one’s epitaph whether on a tombstone or not. In just a few words, certainly less than a dozen, a person’s life is encapsulated for all […]
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Your description of an ideal school environment is almost exactly what I learned in education classes 40 years ago. It describes the environment and philosophy of the first school where I was a media specialist (now called teacher librarians.) What happened along the way? I think it was Reaganomics, but I’m not sure. No Child Left Behind was part of it, too. I wonder if the NEA agreed with these trends or just went along because there was no choice.
In the era of the Kennedys, the mood of the nation leaned toward humanism. Then the shootings took place wiping out three major leaders of that mood. Had Bobby won the Presidency, perhaps the Vietnam War could have been handled differently but the war took the lead in the nation’s mood and instead of further progress toward humanist policy, the young people took to burning draft cards, bras, rioted at the 1968 Democratic Convention, and moved to Canada. Conservatives and establishment folks elected Reagan to restore law and order. Ideas that you experienced as a librarian teacher disappeared.