by Barry Fagin | Oct 18, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Co-published in the Colorado Springs Gazette} Once again, Hollywood’s best have turned their eyes toward computing, programmers, and technology. Once again, they have got it spectacularly wrong. “The Social Network” is a highly fictionalized account of the emergence...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 14, 2010 | Psychology, Society & Culture
A while back, there was an article in the Boston Globe by Barbara F. Meltz, called “Criticism can eat away at a youth’s self-worth”. It contained some important points, but by being one-sided, it MISSED the overall point of criticism entirely,...
by Barry Fagin | Oct 11, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2005} Does anybody remember the original “Trivial Pursuit”? Ronald Reagan was president, “The Dukes of Hazard” was on TV, and George Lucas was finishing “Return of the Jedi.” If you’re in my demographic, you played it in your twenties...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 7, 2010 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
As Americans, we live entrenched in a duplicity of often conflicting ideas of society and government. This is represented in how government is run, with legislation (and therefore law) in its broadest sense being from the start a compromise between different...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 23, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Personal note: I’ve been on both ends of this stick. I’ve been called a bigot, and have called others bigots, though I strongly avoid using the term half-hazardly. I have criticized organizations and fanatic interpretations of ideologies, especially in...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 20, 2010 | Education, Society & Culture
{2005} When it comes to math, Colorado schools get a D. That’s D as in barely passing. D as in Dereliction of Duty for Dogmatically Disseminating Dumbed-Down Doggie Doo in Districts from Denver to Durango. As a computer science professor, I’ve been doing math all my...
