Archive for December, 2007

POVERTY

Poverty is not simply a word, it is a complex system of existence.
As I see it there are four  types of poverty:
1. By birthplace.
2. By circumstance.
3. By choice.
4. By mental inability to survive in a social setting.
 
Taking the first case, poverty by birthplace. There are children who are born into areas that have had their […]

Toys, Lead and Buttons

The most significant issue regarding children today is the possibility of children choking on small toy pieces and lead paint on toys. Parents are eager to start their children on literary and artistic careers early in life. There seems to be no problem with giving a 2 year old a box of colored pencils with […]

FENCES

“Good fences make good neighbors”Robert Frost
Throughout history fences had been successfully used to indicate the limits of one’s control. Without a distinct marker of some sort, a range of uncertainty exists as to what a person or a country can do at the edges of their controlled property. This uncertainty usually leads to disputes which […]

How Far?

The following two articles were copied from the November 30th issue of the “Patriot Post” , Patriot Vol. 07 Number 48, and are examples of what I said in my posting, “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS” on November21st.

 ‘Non Compos Mentis’: Zero tolerance
Two students were suspended for ten days this week at Lee’s Summit West High School in Kansas […]