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My name is Michael Andoscia and where do I begin describing myself. I guess I could say that I'm...multifaceted. First and foremost I'm a family man. I have a wife, Jennifer and the most beautiful children on earth, Tekoa and Ainsley. In them I take the fullest

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Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms The sensitive nation: Being offended is every American's right: 1 of 9

Somehow, in the course of the American drama, a new right has been thumbtacked to the Constitution. Never really written in by force of law, but stuck like a sticky note on the first Amendment on which someone wrote in crayon, "We the People have the right not to be offended!" Oh, sure, you can have your freedom of speech an...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Why people have affairs: 5 of 29

Ah, why do people have affairs, cheat, sneak around? Why can't we just stay faithful? Could it be that we are just genetically wired to cheat? Perhaps the evolutionary psychologists are right that it is in the best interest of males to inseminate as many young women as we can and it is in the best interest of women to get im...
Education > Primary School (Other) Does conventional schooling stifle curiosity: 1 of 5

My son was 1 when I started teaching him the ABC's. I wrote three letters on his magnadoodle and had him point them out. But he would follow me around with the magnadoodle and hound me until I did the ABC's with him, "Daddy...Daddy...ABCeees...ABCeeees." It was to the point that I could hardly get my own work done. He was so...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Should lawmakers free us from market forces by controlling gas prices?: 11 of 14

The free market is a myth! Those who spout free market principles and ideology in the same breath that they defend our current economy are either uninformed or lying. What we have today is, in fact, socialism. The worst kind of socialism...corporate socialism. The government intervenes in the market, especially the oil marke...
Education > Educational Philosophy Have public schools failed us: 32 of 37

Have public schools failed us? Wow, I bristle whenever I hear this question. Whenever we have an idea of pass and fail there should be some criterion from which to make this statement. Usually this criterion is some false nostalgia about how good schools used to be, or they are categorical errors based on how we think studen...