Michael Swickard © 2019 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. February is President’s Month. Recently I noticed on Social Media quite a few posts about current and former United States Presidents....
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Jet engines make lots of noise, especially military jets. It seems several communities in New Mexico are bothered by the thought that jets from Holloman Air Fo...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. It happens often that a local business closes. We have enjoyed years of that business in our community but now it is closed. Rarely do we understand what happe...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Every year for decades there have been students bringing guns to school to “fix a problem.” In the days after the school shooting many people speculate on...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Let us look at assumptions. They are the building blocks of change. American public schools provide an example. Not everyone agrees that they are broken; some...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Imagine that a wave of brown smelly sludge starts pouring over the edge of your toilet. Oh no! That is not the textbook way brown sludge should be handled by t...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart ...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn’t disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words and his voice to send a message for ...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. One morning in my coffee shop, we convened our own Chamber of Commerce. Business has been slow in our little slice of heaven so we needed to come up with some...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. American agriculture, which a hundred years ago was where many people worked is now just a very small sliver of the overall workforce. Consequently, many peop...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “What the diary does not reveal… is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U. S. Occupation Aut...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Watching the Hurricane Harvey disaster in Texas causes me to wonder why it came as such a surprise. Yes, it was stronger than had hit for many years. And the ...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. History is the driver of culture. It’s the story of people and how they dealt with adversity. Recently Confederate statues have been under attack which b...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “There never was a war more easy to stop (which wasn’t) than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.” Winston C...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself...” Walt Whitman We are living in times of contradiction and most people ...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. At the coffee shop someone asked an interesting question: Do home schoolers take summer vacations like students in public schools? My reaction was that home-sch...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “A peasant has to stand on a hillside for a very long time before a roast duck flies into his mouth.” Chinese proverb quoted by Paul Theroux in Riding the I...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “We aren’t addicted to oil, but our cars are.” James Woolsey While that sounds good, it’s wrong. Our cars are inanimate so t...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. It seems odd to me that some of the most learned people in our society should look surprised when in New Mexico over the last six years college enrollment has...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.” Walter E. Williams �...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” Peter Ustinov No matter where I am I find funny things all around me. While I have...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. For some of our fellow residents here in New Mexico there has been surprise that the daytime temperatures have suddenly been in the triple digits. And it is r...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Surveys on American saving and investing indicates many Americans have no investments. Their plan for old age is to win the lottery. While I agree: “No dreame...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. If we know allowing academic skills to go unused causes those skills to atrophy, why have three-month summer vacations in public schools? And, why is there th...
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© 2017 MICHAEL SWICKARD, PH.D. Many years ago, I was standing in a line at the university. It was the usual kind of line that college students stand and have stood in since the beginning of t...
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