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TV show prompts me to look more critcally at self-help industry

Just a Guy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:56:09 +0000

Given the fact that the so-called “self-help industry,” or “self-help movement” is a multibillion dollar industry, I wonder that I’ve lived so many years without paying it much attention.

I saw a television special on ABC a few days ago — “Mind Games” I think it was — which recounted the horrific death of some people devoted to one of the contemporary “self-help” gurus in a sweat lodge gone wrong a couple of years ago.

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TV show prompts me to look more critcally at self-help industry

Sometimes libraries face financial ‘holds,’ whether they like it or not

Just a Guy — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:50:49 +0000

We had local elections in my neck of the woods last Tuesday, and many folks in a county adjacent to ours were stunned that voters rejected an increase in property taxes that would have modernized and increased a county library system for the first time in something like 50 years.

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How do you ‘inform’ voters when they don’t care to listen?

Just a Guy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:00:20 +0000

It’s very possible that C-SPAN and such important, impartial media outlets just might be the best sleep aid on cable. Next to the billions of incarnations of crime show reruns, of course.

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Parents: Beware of school related scams

Just a Guy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:14:19 +0000

I saw a television newscast last evening about a phone scam that played upon some parents’ desires to help their students score high on college entrance exams. In this case, some company in Texas (now out of business and being sought by Texas law enforcement officials) slapped fake labels on legitimate but out-dated SAT/ACT test study materials and sold them for a bloated price via telemarketing.

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New school year probably means doing some moving

Just a Guy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:02:30 +0000

Ah, the joys of each new school year in America. I remember them well, both as a student and as a parent of students, and none of those memories move me quite as much as, uh, well, the NON-joys of moving the kids from home to on-campus housing.

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Hmmm. I LOVE the smell of fresh textbooks in the morning

Just a Guy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:53:41 +0000

I offer that post title with apologies to all of you who are “Apocalypse Now” fans. I just couldn’t resist pirating that famous napalm line and spoiling it with textbooks and stuff related to school and classrooms.

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Should ‘No Child Left Behind’ continue as law of the land?

Just a Guy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:24:39 +0000

President Bush called today for renewal of his “No Child Left Behind” federal education law.

As a writer and a former teacher, I’m all in favor of education, literacy, and all those other good things associated with an intelligent culture. But every time I read or hear anything about this particular federal law, I cringe just a little bit.

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