Brain Waves

• Whether we leave Iraq now or later does not matter. This war was lost before it began.
• Our public schools' greatest deficits are the instructor's lack of passion, the inability to escape the status quo and the dearth of respect for students
• Poverty is not a character flaw.
• I am dyslexic. Contrary to public speculation, neither my brain, vision nor hearing is impaired. My dyslexia is not due to mental retardation, brain damage nor a lack of intelligence. My brain is just built very differently. Fortunately. If everyone's brain was like mine, teachers would teach kids using an alterate system.
• Each elected Federal official should be required to live on the same income as the constituent with the least for one month before taking office.
• The Manufacturing Era left us bereft of the millenniums-old small business knowledge base. Now corporate skyscrapers are falling one after another like dominoes. So as we move from the Information Age into the Ideas Era TM, our choice is to either recapture that knowledge and survive. Or not.