Don’t look now, but it may be possible that the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Houston may prove to have been a watershed event in the turnaround of public attitudes about limits on cultural pollution. In the interest of damage control, the producers of this product want to focus on the few seconds […]
Archives for March 2004
The Challenge And Opportunity In Iran
Natural disasters often have enormous cultural and political consequences along with their economic and human costs. I believe the horror of the December earthquakes in Iran is an example because it helped further demonstrate to the Iranian people the huge void that exists between their tyrannized society and the developed West in terms of wealth, […]
Gibson’s Passion
Well, I saw Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” on opening night, and one thing that should be said is that it was not oversold. It was at once probably the most compelling and repelling movie experience of my life. Entertaining it probably isn’t, in the sense that term is ordinarily used. I could […]
The Battle Over Marriage
I hate to say “I told you so”, but I did. The battle over gay/lesbian “rights” has spilled into the public arena and the Presidential election because the American people will not allow four Massachusetts judges to throw out several thousand years of natural law, and they shouldn’t. This is not about equal rights nearly […]
A Modest Step Toward Educator Preparation Reform
Last November, the Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC), on which I was appointed to serve by Governor Rick Perry, narrowly approved a very controversial rule authorizing probationary certification to aspiring teachers who want to be licensed to teach using an alternative to the traditional certification route, typically through the colleges of education. Recently, […]