by Tom Morgan | Jul 26, 2019 | Newspaper Columns
Our Language Police have their hands full. Lately the LPs have pushed the Berkeley, Cal. city council to scrub sexist words. Like manpower and manholes. In favor of human-effort and maintenance holes. (Please imagine a worker saying...
by Tom Morgan | Jul 19, 2019 | Newspaper Columns
When you watch the new film APOLLO 11 you will notice things that others miss. That is the way we are with films. Here are a few things that caught my attention. The film is the video record of the moon mission fifty years ago. From pre-liftoff to the astronauts...
by Tom Morgan | Jul 12, 2019 | Newspaper Columns
A few years ago I heard a professor condemn book-banning. This was in a public lecture. She condemned Christian sects and their ilk in hillbilly country. Because they wanted to ban books from school libraries. Books on homosexuality, for instance. An audience member...
by Tom Morgan | Jun 28, 2019 | Newspaper Columns
The latest fad from politicians is to promise to wipe out all student debt. With your money. They wave their magic wand. You pay. That is what they propose. Let us say you did not get a college degree. Instead, you went to work. Or maybe you did get one. You avoided...
by Tom Morgan | Jun 21, 2019 | Newspaper Columns
Critics, I think you have got it backward. Senator Cory Booker recently declared that the U.S. has “Yet to truly acknowledge white supremacy that tainted this country’s founding.” He is only one in a chorus who have damned the country’s founders. Because many were...
