by Steve Chisnell | 30 December 2009 | ChizBlog, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
“I’m just doing my job,” she said to me. In frustration, I responded. “Then let me talk to someone who will do more than just her job.” Perhaps I was cruel, but it was clear that the customer service operator on the phone was not prepared... 
by Steve Chisnell | 12 May 2009 | ChizBlog, Philosophy, Service
The following is an excerpt from a speech I gave at the ROHS National Honor Society induction ceremony. A hunter has been wandering through the woods, lost, thirsty, and desperate. Finally, we wanders into a small camp. “Thank goodness!” he cries,... 
by Steve Chisnell | 14 February 2009 | ChizBlog, Philosophy, Service
“I haven’t received any call back from you.” I didn’t know whose voice it was on my cell phone. All I knew was that she was an older woman staying in Florida and that she had called me at some point while I was teaching a Haruki Murakami novel... 
by Steve Chisnell | 2 February 2008 | ChizBlog, Philosophy
Maybe I’m in the mood to vent—but why should I? It’s not like our world is full of the ridiculous, packed with the absurd, stuffed with the ludicrous. It’s not like I can’t make sense of the planet. As I tell me Lit. of the Western World students, existentialists... 
by Steve Chisnell | 7 October 2007 | ChizBlog, Philosophy
In his book, An Assault on Reason, Al Gore draws a parallel between the fate of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Joseph K. in Kafka’s The Trial. The detainees, he writes, have not been told the crimes with which they have been charged, they are “served” by secret... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School.
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