• Walz is the Vice Presidential Candidate on the Democratic ticket

    Three Things 

  • Want Calm? It Will Cost You

    Current Solutions to Mental Health Challenges Are Coercive I Wanted to be the Best Husband and Father I Could Shortly after I was married, just after I settled down, the root cause analysis of what made me who I was, became a money tree for therapists and pharmaceutical companies. I had called out into the…

  • Education Isn’t Equitable & Never Will Be: I Know Why

    Everything Important I Already Learned from Jimmy Buffet. “Education isn’t equitable and it never will be,” I thought to myself one warm, July summer day, as I sat by the ocean, with “Jimmy Buffet live in Maui” playing in the distance, from my perch high-above it all in a  lifeguard tower. Education, once the beacon…

  • Movie Review: “Independence Day”

    1996 Like the Jews awaiting their savior, in the summer of ’96, few moments in time held anticipation, like the soon to be released “Independence Day,” on July 3rd. Directed by Roland Emmerich, the dystopian epic blockbuster, was like riding the Six Flags thrill ride,”The Great American Scream Machine.” However, instead of loops “Independence Day”…

  • The Unlikely Adventures of W.V. Braun: Nazi Shenanigans to NASA Founder and Celebrated Educator

    Minneapolis – How could intelligent, well-respected, professional German’s turn their backs on Concentration Camps and torture? It’s troubling, but this duality of conscience isn’t just a German problem, it’s a deep seeded pathology of the human condition. No individual encompasses the moral dilemma of Groupthink more than the story of Wernher Von Braun. Educators in…