by Barry Fagin | Jul 26, 2010 | Business & Economics, Education, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Originally Published August 2004} Suppose your child came home sick from school. Suppose you found out the school nurse treated his fever with a cold shower and his sweaty brow by wiping it dry. You’d be outraged, because that’s just responding to...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 25, 2010 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
I wasn’t shocked by an article in The Chronicle, “The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story”. The writer makes a living churning out everything from master’s theses to medical care plans for everyone...
by Barry Fagin | Apr 18, 2011 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-15-06} I can’t imagine losing a child. The despair, the hopelessness, the bottomless abyss of sorrow are all too awful to contemplate. Sadly, our community has been struck with not one but two such losses. As reported...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 29, 2011 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
The End of the World is Nigh! Or, at least as much as it’s always been. Are you a prophet or the follower of one? If so, I’m willing to place bets against any and all such prophesies, at any odds, because frankly, I have more sense than you. Besides, if...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 1, 2014 | Politics & Law
I’m not surprised there are people who support and oppose various legislation. That is the hallmark of a working pluralistic democracy. What does surprise me is how some people are themselves surprised, on the shock that others are “voting against their...