I occasionally get awesome ideas that, because I have a soul, I can’t act on. And I had one of those ideas just now, as I was sitting here, reading about a third grade teacher in Vancouver, Washington who just recently instituted a pay-to-potty scheme with disastrous consequences. The information at this point is scant, […]
Posted in Education, Ideas, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ayn Rand, bullying, business ideas, dismantling of public education, education reform, for-profit charter schools, Mark's big ideas, Mill Plain Elementary, pay to potty, peeing ones pants, personal responsibility, tea party, urination, Vancouver, Washington |
By Mark | November 21, 2013
It doesn’t do me a bit of good, as he’s long dead, and I can’t imagine any scenario in which he would have ever worked for me, but, after 30 years of reading about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this is the one thing I’m sure of… Allen Dulles isn’t someone you want to […]
By Mark | September 17, 2013
Two things happened this week that prompted me to write this post. The world celebrated what would have been Roald Dahl’s 97th birthday, and, a day or two later, my friends Murph and Cara welcomed two beautiful little babies into the world. So, as Linette set off in one direction this evening, to arrange for […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life | Also tagged Arnold Lobel, Billy Wilder, books, Cara Talaska, children's literature, Eric Carle, Frog and Toad, genocide, Go Ice Cream, Harry Potter, Huckleberry Finn, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Mark Twain, Marquee Moon, Murph, n-word, Native Americans, Richard Murph, Roald Dahl, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Star Wars, The Onion, The Prisoner, Thin Man, Tom Sawyer, truth pond |
