Maybe she should do her husband’s speeches

I just watched a program on The Travel Channel about famous food factories. Among them was the Ben & Jerry’s plant in Vermont, which looks like a great, fun destination. They have a Flavor Graveyard, where  [more...]

I’m leaving the country just in the nick of time: across the street in the park, emanating from the woods, is an eerie, sci-fi sound… the coming of the cicadas. It sounds for all the world as if the giant  [more...]

In the last couple of years, the field I work in — social studies — has been under attack from the right wing, claiming that social studies undermines the teaching of history. This is patently ridiculous, as  [more...]