by Steve Chisnell | 25 September 2011 | ChizBlog, Philosophy
What has ignorance produced? A small sampling: Ignorance fishes bread from the toaster with a fork. Ignorance believes World Wrestling Entertainment is real. Ignorance says, “All we need to do is. . . . ” Ignorance wears no condom. Ignorance chooses... 
by Steve Chisnell | 6 September 2011 | ChizBlog, Politics and Ethics
I’ve been wanting to write for some time about the Sarah Palin-Paul Revere-Wikipedia controversy. You may remember the hoopla last June when former and potential presidential-candidate Palin, then on a historical America tour, was quoted in videos... 
by Steve Chisnell | 11 July 2011 | ChizBlog, Global Issues, Politics and Ethics, Travel
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. . . . In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it),... 
by Steve Chisnell | 7 July 2011 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Politics and Ethics, Travel
Cuba: July 6, 2011 I want to write of a formula for understanding Cuban politics and culture. I want to say that all of these poor and oppressed people, holding together through music and art, would be happiest if we were able to remove the evil Castro regime and let... 
by Steve Chisnell | 5 July 2011 | ChizBlog, Education, Politics and Ethics, Travel
Cuba: July 4, 2011 My US Independence Day amounted to five meetings on the education system of Cuba, four of them official. And to assemble the eight hours of information is not my mission here; however, I am sensing a timely trend I wish to share tonight. Our meeting... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
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