About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
The Main Ingredient
I watched the couple in Kroger last week as they moved down one of the over-processed center aisles. "Look!' exclaimed the woman all too loudly as she picked up the bright yellow box of Kroger's Frosted Fudge Toaster Treats. "These look good!" She dutifully glanced...
Come Back to the Raft, Jim
As a literature teacher and one offering my students a discussion of deconstruction these past weeks, it is impossible for me not to address the recent controversy around Huck Finn. For those of you too concerned about the real news of George Clooney in Sudan, the...
On James Berlin, Yahoo News, and the War on Christmas
I still remember my direct encounter with Neo-Marxist philosopher and rhetorician James Berlin (1942-1994) during a presentation I made at the Michigan College English Association conference. I was horrified and embarrassed at the time because, an honoree at the...
Leonard’s Score
From: I didn’t know that Leonard Rosenman died two years ago. If so, I would have written to ask sooner, “Did you really write only one score for 105 films and just recycle it with each new contract? I first encountered Rosenman’s work with the 1977...
In the Spirit of the Holiday
Far be it for me to recommend holiday gifts, especially after that magna-glut of materialism, Black Friday. But now that America has its collective fix of self-indulgence and pseudo-savings (how many of us set a budget before we left home that day?), it may be that we...
The Real Junk with the TSA
Yes, the talk of the country is whether or not the TSA goes too far with its airport scans. Airline pilots unions and others are calling for a boycott of the new enhanced visual imaging system, the 10-second body scan which renders a "gray-scale" version of the...
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