There are different rituals for different families at this season of the year. When I was little, I got a new pair of shoes and a new “outfit”. My brothers got new “clothes” because, as they explained to me with a sneer, boys don’t wear “outfits” after the age of two. Mom took her six [...]
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All that fuss about Obama’s speech
The President spoke to America’s students as they begin the school year. I’ve been asked 3,000 times today what all the fuss was about. Why was talk radio and the TV talking heads going full-speed, damn the torpedoes, take no prisoners on… the President’s message to school children that they are responsible for showing up. Doing their homework. Behaving themselves.
