“Teachers, if you don’t like the job, it’s OK to leave” – Ruben Navarrette goes full hateful on teachers

It’s hard being a teacher. I most certainly would know, considering over 25 years of experience. I’m used to the hate hurled at teachers, the accusations, the disrespect, the insane charges that we are somehow “indoctrinating” people. (I taught technology. There’s no indoctrination there.) Ruben Navarrette, though, has only one thing to tell anyone who …

“7 Steps to Better Government”: Building an alternative to extremism

There is actually some good thinking going on out there. I saw it recently in the Albuquerque Journal, in an editorial piece by Tim Sarmo and George Orbanek, at this address: https://www.abqjournal.com/2491933/7-steps-to-better-government.html Such ideas. Consider: “We believe fact, supported by irrefutable evidence.” Not long ago I tried to point to that irrefutable evidence, in that …

A Cautionary Note About Ben McEwan of Scotland

Ben McEwan was trusted as a moderator of the Facebook School for Hackers group, but when I warned him not to practice hacking directly against the group, he retaliated by deleting every member of the group after sending a message that the group had been “taken over.” Don’t repeat our bitter experience.

Pete Herzog removed my name as contributor on every lesson on Hacker Highschool

Just amazing. Pete Herzong of ISECOM has removed my name from the list on contributors on every lesson of Hacker Highschool – even though I was a volunteer, contributor and eventually Project Manager over the course of six years and produced the first 11 lessons. Now that’s the way to treat a contributor to an …