Recent content by Toni

So you think that there are not enough people who want to be doctors? We’ve steered kids into business degrees for too long and need to do more to encourage people to go into the trades. But the last thing we need to do is to push people into career paths that don’t interest them and that they...

I draw lines a bit differently than you do. For one thing, as uncomfortable as it makes me to say this, I think all of us humans are a bit racist at times. Whether we do it consciously or not, it is human to want to put other people into neat little categories. It’s good to be conscious of it...

Well what magical formula do you personally endures to separate out which dollars that you pay in taxes are allocated to pay for what thing? Most college kids are tax payers. It’s their dollars as much as it is yours or mine. Unless you think that those who pay more in taxes get more rights?

No I do not have him on ignore. Pretty sure he has me on ignore.

Sigh. What we do not need is the state or its proxies ( or other people) deciding first 18 year olds what they can and cannot study. Most college kids place quite enough pressure on themselves to follow a field of study that will lead to a lucrative career and not disappoint their parents ts...

I have no idea where my copy is, so I can’t search it. It could be on any of 8 or so book cases in my house or in a box in the attic. I read it…..many years ago and remember being struck by recognizing that the Nazis were not original.

I remember freshman year in the dorms many many many years ago, our RA pulling me aside ( and I assume all the other freshmen girls) to tell me NOT to go to any party or event on the fraternity row. Absolutely do not. I would like to say that I am surprised that such dangerous behavior (...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. I'm not sure where my copy is atm, so I can't reference a page number for my edition. And of course, the Nazis did the same thing but not with Indians. It seems that people have many ways to be horrifically inhumane when we decide it is convenient to count...

And US troops used Indian skins to make lampshades. There is no end of atrocities committed in every war, ever.

Even if that’s what her father did, it is hardly a reflection of Omar herself.

Why not? Why do you see Hamawy as an Islamist or a terrorist sympathizer?

Well, when I was in elementary school, I would have chosen math, science (which really was not taught at the elementary level where I grew up and so I thought I hated it despite reading a lot of books that were about science and didn't figure out that I liked science until the 7th grade when I...

Race may not be a common issue on the part of employers anymore but I know that many candidates of color who were born in the US turn down job offers in my town which is much more diverse than it used to be but still over 90% white. And sadly enough, I've witnessed some pretty nasty racism in...

You seem all in on telling other people to stop calling you racist. AFAIK, no one has called you a racist. Or a nazi. And you seem intent on inferring malice when staunch disagreement is much more apt. You are aware that people can disagree, very sharply, without there being any malice...

I’ve also had a number of jobs as an adult. Maybe it’s the fact that I moved to a smallish town in a fairly rural area but frankly every single job I’ve had since I’ve lived here I got because of knowing the right person or being known because of volunteer work in the community. Including a job...