Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

The prosecution in a criminal case wants the judge to forbid the defense from referring to the prosecution as "the government".  T...

I finally have the technology setup that I've been seeking for my classroom for years. 70" widescreen TV, big enough for everyone...

There's a difference between being wrong and knowingly stating something false, and this president is a proven liar.  Not only is he inc...

My German foreign exchange student was chosen as Elks Club Student of the Month for our school this month and I got to escort him to the Elk...

The other trig teacher at my school came to me with a problem today.  I, too, am stumped as to how to explain *why* the Law of Sines doesn...

Only educators could say something so stupid with a straight face because they want to believe it: Scary : Only 57% of college freshman ...

More and more people are already getting screwed by Obamacare : Universities are cutting back on adjunct professors’ work hours to comply...

I'm sure it's not just me, so I won't ask the "is it just me, or..." rhetorical question, but this seems pretty darned...

Today I took the 2nd test in my Probability Theory class.  I was allotted 50 minutes, and when 50 minutes hit I wasn't done.  Sure, I co...

For the first few decades of my life I thought that Sunset Magazine was for old people; it's only been in the last few years that I'...

Today, the 89th day after I started, I broke out the limoncello and started filtering it.  It certainly smells and looks good!  When I'm...

I wish we in California had the same rights that workers do in Michigan.  The Michigan teachers union doesn't want teachers exercising t...

For a few years now I've had an Elmo document camera (like a video camera) connected to both my computer and an LCD projector; with thi...

I've had my Kindle Fire for what, two years now?  And I've never used it to listen to an audio book.  Of all the things I can do on ...

A dozen years ago, when I hired on in my current school district, it had a good reputation throughout the county.  Today that reputation is ...

I never understood the idea of paying a lot of extra money up front just to save a little money on gas over a long term.  When I ran the num...

When I'm not annoyed by it, I'm marginally entertained by the quaint view that holds that "scientists" are entirely neutra...

The graphs are very interesting, especially given that they represent data from the Greenland and Vostok Ice Caps: http://www.foresight.org...

I was up at 5:40 this morning, and at school by 7:15 to help proctor the PSAT.  When that was complete I went to Sam's Club, where I bou...

...of the British surrender at Yorktown!