Tag Archives: Debates

Education: Perhaps the answer is to rethink what we mean by education

Posted on 10 February 2017 by dlhitzeman

Recent events have spawned what has been for me some vitriolic but otherwise meaningless debates about education in the United States. The debates have been vitriolic because the sides involved have dug into positions that are primarily rhetorical in nature and have been meaningless because most of the rhetoric has little to do with how […] Continue reading →

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What’s my hangup?

Posted on 25 February 2013 by dlhitzeman

So, I’ve been having this running battle for a while now about exercise. There are a not small number of people who have concluded, and not without justification, that I am opposed to exercise. While this is not really true, … Continue reading →

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Science and Technology: Global population growth will not be halted by birth control

Posted on 15 February 2012 by dlhitzeman

The whole government mandated birth control debacle in the United States has brought birth control back to the center stage in the global debate. Unfortunately for the debate, neither side argues from a position of holistic facts, but I think the pro-birth control group gets it more wrong than the other. For example, this Treehugger […] Continue reading →

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The cost of reality means sacrificing until it’s fixed

Posted on 24 February 2011 by dlhitzeman

One of the costs of putting one’s thoughts out in a public forum like a weblog is that one’s readers often expect both an opinion and a solution if the issue at hand is a problem that needs solving. The issue … Continue reading →

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More on the cost of reality

Posted on 21 February 2011 by dlhitzeman

I love that the debate over stripping public unions of the collective bargaining rights has degenerated into an argument, essentially, about protecting union negotiated entitlements. In embracing this debate, both sides have distracted themselves from reality again–that is, the thing … Continue reading →

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