One of the most popular series on TV is the Cold Cases show. They take a look at criminal investigations going back decades, and using re-enactments try to explain to the audience the crime that happened. In many ways the CSI series works in a not dissimilar fashion, we the viewer are taken inside the [...]

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Charter schools often have the best intentions and offer a unique learning environment to kids who might have different needs than the average student. However, after working full time and as a substitute teacher for several of them in various parts of Phoenix, AZ and it’s surrounding cities, I realize that Bill and Linda Gates [...]

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Microsoft have had a bit of a battle trying to gain market share for their iPod killing media player Zune. The Zune just has not captured the imagination of the consumer. In fact this has been the case for most of Microsoft’s explorations into the alien world of hardware. About the only Microsoft piece of [...]

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Depending on where one chooses to pursue ESL, race might determine job availability, or even the pay scale. Unfortunately, many schools, especially in the third world, require a white face to help market the institution as prestigious. Regardless of what the candidate might be capable of, they want the parents of the children to know [...]

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Okay, so you decide to see what this ESL thing is all about and you look at the certifications. The most common ones are TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). What’s the difference? Well, most people will claim that there is no difference. They’ll say [...]

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Have you ever wondered about all those advertisements for TESOL and TEFL schools. You know, the ones with catchy little titles like “Travel the world and get paid for it!” or “Make your life an adventure and become an English teacher!” Well, yes, these things are possibilities, but it takes quite a bit of craftiness [...]

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It has been entertaining to watch these two 800lb Gorillas go at each other. While each companies core business is separate from the others, there is so much overlap in ancillary products that they have their swords drawn. Microsoft wants the search traffic, and Google wants the Business Applications business. Pretty much the line in [...]

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I came across this copy of the newspaper for the then Bishop Neumann High School from January 1977. It is really fitting to remember with great fondness the excitement and accomplishment we felt as students of Bishop Neumann High School when Pope Paul VI declared his intention to canonize Philadelphia’s John Neumann as a saint [...]

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January 5th is one of those dates that will always have a special significance for me. Like December 7th when the world recalls the attack on Pearl Harbor, or September 11, the day of the terrorist attacks that launched this country into a global campaign towards the eradication of terrorism, January 5th is a significant [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog.  As the son of a multi-millionaire giddily dabbles in drugs, crime, and wanton sex trusting no harm will actually come to him owing to his father’s vast influence and power, so Westerners have -with increasing recklessness – romanticized and flirted with Chaos over the past forty years. Indeed centuries of Relativist [...]

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By John Donovan of royaldutchshellplc.com 3 January 2009 More than 60 years after the demise of Nazi Germany, people apparently remain fascinated by the evil deeds of Adolf Hitler and his equally evil henchmen. The new movie ‘Valkyrie‘ tells the story of the well-documented bomb plot against Hitler. Tom Cruise is in the lead role [...]

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The economic ideology that has failed is a Conservative ideology. It was once called Reagonomics or Thatcherism and it was adopted, not lock stock and barrel but substantially, by Blair/Brown. However at the Tory Party conference in 2007 David Cameron and George Osborne hammered Brown for his economic emphasis saying that it was too Stalinist [...]

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