by Barry Fagin | Aug 8, 2011 | Education, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-24-06} My son has lived with me for one hundred sixty-two thousand, five hundred and twenty-eight hours. We’re now down to the last forty-eight. Along with thousands of eighteen-year-olds around the country, he’ll head off to college this...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 1, 2011 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-28-06} My son came home from college last week. Due to the storm, his flight was 48 hours late. My wife and I threw our exhausted arms around him at midnight, three tiny drops in a sea of people at DIA. John Lennon once...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 25, 2011 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-14-06} Ted Haggard once said he knew angels visited New Life Church, because congregants drew similar-looking angel pictures. Before those of you who are not religious sneer in smug secular superiority, consider the...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 18, 2011 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 11-30-06} I’ve been thinking a lot about language lately. Two of the movies I saw over the long weekend rely on language and cultural differences to make their point. In both films, the scriptwriters count on Americans to be...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 11, 2011 | Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 11-16-06} I can’t forgive Ted Haggard. Not because I’m unable to, but because it’s forbidden. I’m not one of his victims. Jewish tradition teaches that forgiveness for a sin comes from those most hurt by it. That’s why...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 7, 2011 | Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
From a Tea Party forum on LinkedIn flows just enough xenophobia to justify the stereotype pushed by the press and limit my interactions there. An article posted there from a rant blog is worthy of mentioning here, but not because it was emblematic of the most...
