Rants and Raves of Tom Durrie

For a few weeks I was puzzled over how it was that suddenly thousands of people were going nuts about soccer, spending hundreds and thousands of dollars to watch matches and ardently following constant media coverage of every game and every player.

There was a time when soccer was a pleasant and enjoyable game player by kids and local grownup teams.

I saw a cartoon recently that pictured a man on his deathbed saying that he had gotten through his life without ever once using algebra.

Mark Carney, at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, gave “A speech that, for one delivered by a head of state, offered a rare degree of intellectual, even emotional, candor.”

Is it just me or do I often hear “learning” as something that children do in school?

How often do you hear someone say that you have to do well in school so you can get a good job?

William Jennings Bryan was a fundamentalist preacher, orator, politician, and real estate agent.

Eighty years go today, August 6, 1945, the United States Dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, destroying the city and annihilating 166,000 people immediately and condemning thousands to a life of mortal effects of radiation.

In 1980, the celebrated science fiction writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov published, in Newsweek, an article titled “A Cult of Ignorance” decrying the growth of anti-intellectualism in the United States.

“The only way to keep an entire group of sentient beings in an artificially fixed place, beneath all others and beneath their own talents, is with violence and terror, psychological and physical, to preempt resistance before it can be imagined.”[1] I can…

Audiences as the Met in HD in a movie theatre usually do not applaud, but they did on Saturday March 15th when they heard this outspoken address by General Manager Peter Gelb.