By David Anderson “Pedophilia, incest and graphic sex,” is on all Washington public schools’ recommended reading list for 11th graders this September. Is your child entering 11th grade in September – anywhere in any of Washington’s public schools or those of any of 45 other states that have adopted the Common Core curriculum?
Letter: Scams Sully the Lottery? What?
By David Anderson ‘You’ve won a lottery prize!’ the caller says in his best broken English. Dropping the phone you shout excitedly to the family ‘We won the lottery!’
Letter: Rail Road Rage
By David Anderson You’ve no doubt heard of the engineer texting – but tailgating another train, really? Conductors deliberately preventing other locomotives from merging – telling ‘the little train that could’ it can’t – or chasing down another train?
Letter: High Speed Rail Sucks Money in High Speed
By David Anderson What does the Point Defiance Rail Bypass Project – that would reroute Amtrak passenger trains away from the scenic Puget Sound waterfront to a heavily life-congested path through Tillicum and other communities along I-5, seven daily round trips at 79 mph and 45 seconds per intersection – have in common with the following?
Letter: There Was a Crooked Man
By David Anderson It’s called a “traditional nonsense rhyme, sure to keep young children amused.” Indeed you’ve probably seen them smile as you read of the crooked man walking the crooked mile, who bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse and they all lived together in a little crooked house.
Letter: “Fire! It’s On Fire!”
By David Anderson Yesterday afternoon my son-in-law called quite out-of-breath shouting “Fire! It’s on fire!” I’m not sure if I hung up on him before he got a chance to hang up on me but those few dreaded words uttered quite obviously while on the run from the sound of his voice got me to running […]
Religious? How dumb!
By David Anderson If you’re of the pew-warming sort you haven’t a clue – is the more crass assessment of a project that finds religious people to be less intelligent than atheists. “The studies used in Zuckerman’s paper included a life-long analysis of the beliefs of a group of 1,500 gifted children – those with IQs over […]
Letter: Shooting Follow-up
Now that the 16-page Lakewood Police Department’s (LPD) Use of Force Policy is in hand,questions recently raised as to whether certain specific parameters were included – or not – can now be answered.
Letter: Celebrities You’ll Likely Never Find in the Gutter
By David Anderson If you want to ensure your gutters will work this coming season of inclement weather you should, before it rains (circle one): A. Find your ladder, gloves, poking stick, broom, silicon, and clean ‘em and caulk ‘em. B. Rain? C. Never mind.