A couple of years ago I decided that every third or fourth book I read would be a classic that I’d either never encountered, or that I read, haphazardly, while in high school or college. Without publishing the full list, I’ll volunteer only that I’ve very much enjoyed the undertaking, though Dickens’ Bleak House…
I sat through all three hours of Wednesday evening’s Republican Presidential Debate – dubbed by some pundit as the ‘Simi Marathon’ – waiting for a question that never came. It could have been any one of a number of questions, and it could have taken many different forms: What is your view of school…
There’s a story told of a physician who tells a patient: “Your test results are in, and I have both good news and bad news to share with you. Which would you like to hear first?” The patient asks to hear the good news first, and the doctor says: “I’m afraid the tests indicate…
