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Chip Mosher: A backward-forward glance
Socrates in Sodom Comments Mar 28, 2013 12:05pmWith the election of a new pope, I feel, like Michael Corleone in the Godfather Part III, that a confession here is long overdue. Although not Catholic, I’ve often wished I had the mental wherewithal...
Chip Mosher: Sayonara, Dwight Jones
Socrates in Sodom Comments Mar 13, 2013 9:10pm“Did ya hear the superintendent is leaving?” a teacher asked.“Yeah, does it make any difference?” her colleague responded.“Not really,” the teacher said.Thus departs another education reformist...
Chip Mosher: ‘A culture more accepting of these acts’
Socrates in Sodom Comments Updated: Feb 28, 2013 2:01pmOn April 1, 1956, local police arrested an intoxicated nude woman walking near the Main Street and Bonanza Road intersection. A newspaper dubbed her “Lady Godiva sans equine.” More recently, on Feb....
Chip Mosher: Teachers unchained
Socrates in Sodom Comments Feb 13, 2013 6:54pmWhen a person gets kicked down so low he has to jump up to touch bottom, perhaps freedom truly is “just another word for nothing left to lose.” That’s the premise of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film,...
Chip Mosher: Teachers’ horrible union
Socrates in Sodom Comments Jan 30, 2013 5:38pmSometimes it’s all you can do to wrap your head around it. But that’s the human race for ya. Bad shit really does happen to some very good people. And today we’re gonna talk about nasty things being...
Chip Mosher: Screw the pooch
Socrates in Sodom Comments Updated: Jan 16, 2013 4:33pmI’ll get to the death of public education in a minute. But first, my mind is on Lake Havasu City resident Brittany Sonnier, 20, recently charged with crimes against nature for having sex with her...
Chip Mosher: New Year with a bang
Socrates in Sodom Comments Jan 04, 2013 12:19pm“Guns, guns, guns!”— from RoboCopTwenty dead kids in Connecticut doesn’t quite have the same rock and roll ring as four dead in Ohio. But, however you slice it, the beat of America goes on. And on....
Chip Mosher: The year in education
Socrates in Sodom Comments Updated: Dec 21, 2012 1:38pm2012: The year that, some have said, the world would end. Also the year the word “fuck” first appeared in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Perhaps Merriam-Webster simply wanted to legitimize...
Chip Mosher: November in a teacher’s soul
Socrates in Sodom Comments Nov 21, 2012 10:34pmI had to laugh. Recently, Garth Brooks quit three years into a five-year deal with Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn. Though he cut the gig short, Brooks was allowed to keep a private jet Wynn gave him as...
Chip Mosher: Touched with madness
Socrates in Sodom Comments Nov 07, 2012 4:47pmTell me I’m dreaming. The Las Vegas moral brigade — a county commissioner, a rape crisis maven and the Hard Rock Hotel — are up in arms over the poster for a local Guns N’ Roses concert.Seriously,...
