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Chip Mosher: Satan in our schools
Socrates in Sodom Comments Oct 24, 2012 6:39pm“Something wicked this way comes.”— ShakespeareThe battle for good and evil is almost over in America. And everybody knows, as Leonard Cohen sings, the good guys are losing.During the past decade,...
Columnist Chip Mosher on anti-education film Won’t Back Down
Socrates in Sodom Comments Oct 10, 2012 9:05pmIn Won’t Back Down, the latest misleading film about school reform, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a hot, slutty, single-mom bartender, who gets guys drunk, then, after getting off work, has sex with them....
Chip Mosher: Manure occureth
Socrates in Sodom Comments Updated: Sep 27, 2012 5:16pmOn bumper stickers they frequently say it happens. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once said because human beings are so full of it they’d make unlikely prospects for interstellar travel in confined spaceships....
Shake ya (presidential) booty
Socrates in Sodom Comments Sep 12, 2012 5:15pmFour years ago, a teaching colleague informed me there was no way Barack Obama was going to lose the presidential election then. A longtime friend, I had known this woman to be a diehard Denzel...
Chip Mosher: Back to school, thank God
Socrates in Sodom Comments Aug 29, 2012 9:05pmSummer’s over. For educators and students it’s the start of another year, a new beginning, where everyone gets a second chance. Time to fix up the classrooms and also clean out the mental garbage...
Paint it bleak: a few cautionary words from our fiery education columnist
Socrates in Sodom Comments Aug 22, 2012 4:52pm“I could not foresee this thing happening.” –Mick JaggerThink of the dead prostitute in the politician’s bed in The Godfather. That is the state of public education in Nevada today — bloody and messy...
Chip Mosher: Chick-fil-A, education reform and bias
Socrates in Sodom Comments Aug 15, 2012 4:57pmI don’t think there are any Chick-fil-A restaurants in Las Vegas. However, in August 2010, a Chick-fil-A corporate motivational speaker, Gerry Wienholt, was the keynote speaker at the Clark County...
Chip Mosher: The Joker, waldo and America
Socrates in Sodom Comments Aug 01, 2012 5:51pm“And modern man screamed with fear.”— Blaise CendrarsIn Judeo-Christian mythology, a hefty foundation block under America’s cultural edifice, the first human being ever born to a man and woman turned...
Chip Mosher: This incessant buzz
Socrates in Sodom Comments Jul 18, 2012 7:09pmListen. You can hardly miss it. During this muggy month of July, in the belly of the desert’s heat, you can hear them in their undaunted despair, that annual chorus of male cicadas crooning to mate,...
The CCSD laugh factory
Socrates in Sodom Comments Jul 06, 2012 2:42pmFans of the Clark Clownish School District have had a lot to laugh about lately. First, there’s the number 150. Then, there’s another number: 15,000. And a disappearing board member added to the...
