Izraelevitz: Passover, Glazed Donuts and Graduate School
Passover, Glazed Donuts and Graduate SchoolPassover, glazed donuts and graduate school do not mix well. This is a fact that I encountered, for five consecutive years, when I was a graduate student working on my doctoral degree.
Full appreciation of this physical law requires some background, so please bear with me for a paragraph or two.
Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is the Jewish week-long holiday celebrating the Biblical Exodus of the Jews from Egypt.
There is a ceremonial dinner, called the Passover Seder, that begins the week of Passover and introduces the observance Read More
Thoughts From the Big Chair: TV’s Late Night Talk Shows and Johnny Carson – A Quantitative Analysis
Thoughts From the Big ChairTV’s Late Night Talk Shows and Johnny Carson – A Quantitative Analysis
Part I – Grading the Shows
As with the TV drama that I talked about in my last column, we are also in a special time when it comes to late night TV talk shows – we, again, now have an embarrassment of riches and many options for our watching pleasure.
As in my previous columns, you’ll get my take on it through commentary, but I’ll give you an added bonus in Part II. I’ll demonstrate for you in a quantitative, i.e. measurable, Read More
Column: The Real Fiscal Problem
The Real Fiscal Problem
The problem with the federal budget is not too much spending. It is too little tax income.
Now I hate taxes as much as anyone. Also, being born in Texas, I am more skeptical of government rationales than most people.
And having worked many years for five federal agencies, I agree there is some wasteful spending, un-needed spending and even unnecessary agencies.
But facts are facts.
Our annual federal budget over the last five years has ranged from 3.5 to 3.8 trillion dollars in 2012. Not billions—trillions! The federal deficit each year, Read More
How The Hen House Turns: DeeDee and Scooter
How The Hen House Turns: DeeDee and ScooterSometime in the mid 1980’s, our daughters went off to college and the dog (Poncho) died–the classic scenario.
Our nest was empty for a while. The daughters’ pets had also met their assorted fates. Work at the lab and the excavation of dinosaur Seismosaurus filled the gap.
Apparently, still feeling that gap, I adopted a turtle or two. Husband Don gave me a proper aquarium.
In the summer of 2000 I rescued Freddy the water dragon from Pete’s Pets, our local pet store prior to Pet Pangaea. Other dragons
Hannemann’s Music Corner: The Hook
Hannemann’s Music Corner: The HookKendall: Martinez vs. Garcia Richard – Gotcha Politics or SOP?
Column by GREG KENDALLDid State House Rep. Stephanie Garcia Richard break her promise to voters? She vowed to help repeal the Richardson era driver’s license law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain New Mexico driver’s licenses.
Gov. Susana Martinez and anonymous robo-callers would like you to believe that Garcia Richard broke her promise.
Martinez went live on Los Alamos radio station KRSN AM 1490 March 7 to make that claim directly to local voters. But it is not that simple.
House Bill 606, sponsored by Rep. Paul Pacheco (R-Bernalillo & Sandoval-23), Read More
Help With The Hard Stuff: Lawyers Can Be Quite Versatile
Help With The Hard Stuff
I ended my last column asking you to think about what role you wanted the lawyer to have in helping you with your problem, and I suggested there are perhaps 10 different roles.
I use as analogy the roles identified by William Ury in his 1999 book Getting to Peace, later retitled The Third Side, and itself now the foundation of www.thirdside.org, part of the Global Negotiation Project that Dr. Ury directs at Harvard University.
Some of the basic premises Read More
