The Demonization of Sarah Palin »
This article says it all. http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/07/08/sarah-barracuda-palin-and-the-piranhas-of-the-press/ ...
April 23 2010 / 11 comments / Read More »
Avatar: The Real Problem »
By Aaron Wildavsky Academy Award-winning director James Cameron’s release several months ago of Avatar — a 200 million dollar plus blockbuster that promised epic, dazzling special effects created using groundbreaking technology — was met with an...
April 21 2010 / 36 comments / Read More »
Crazy American Reunion: A visit to the Tea Party Zoo »
By Valeria Rotella Lately, the tea party movement has taken the nation by storm. They travel across the country protesting the actions of President Obama and Democrats in the government. And on Tax day, April 15,...
April 18 2010 / 35 comments / Read More »Where do Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Students go off to college ? »
According to a recent study done by myself, it has revealed that out of all the acceptance letters sent to BCC students over the...
Aug 27 2010 / No comment / Read More »The IB Dimension: What’s Wrong with the CAS Program »
The International Baccalaureate (IB) program enumerates four “ways of knowing”: sense perception, emotion, language, and reason. Ironically, however, the IB program only uses three,...
May 15 2010 / 4 comments / Read More »Intro to Life Beyond High School 101 »
“Senioritis, from the word senior plus the suffix -itis (which refers to inflammation but in colloquial speech is assumed to mean an illness), is...
May 14 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »Texas Size Changes to the Social Studies Curriculum »
In the March 12th edition of the New York Times, James C. McKinley Jr. reports on the changes the The Texas Board of Education approved...
Mar 14 2010 / 7 comments / Read More »Churchill students hack into computers; grades changed »
The Washington Post is reporting that students at Winston Churchill (Potomac, MD) hacked into the school’s computer system and changed class grades. Grades for 54 students...
Mar 3 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »You’re Applying Where? »
By Carly Loman It is rare when an entire class period goes by without a single mention of college. Whether it be the girl with...
Jan 8 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »
