In America, the general public has developed values that one might describe as generally “warped.” People talk about “Peace in the Middle East” or the “Fiscal Cliff” or the “escalating National Debt” or "massive unemployment" or the “devastation from Hurricane Sandy.” But what the public more directly focuses on during the majority of the year are “The Housewives of New Jersey” or the front page of “the Star or National Inquirer.” Based on this approach, I would list the most "significant eve...

After watching too many reruns of “Gunfight at the OK Corral” and watching the Earps emerging victorious each time, the NRA decided to comment on the Newtown massacre. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” Wayne LaPierre, doing his best John Wayne impersonation, was the NRA speaker and he took no questions (or prisoners?) Why bother? He made his point. Arm the entire staff of every school with uzis and there will no more incidents like Columbine, Virg...

The raging white eyes of the X-man Mutant Storm raged as she unleashed the fearsome storm today on the hapless humans who no longer deserve to inhabit the planet. Envisioning Mjolnir smashing into the clouds, thunder permeating our world, it is obvious that Ragnarok  “Doom of the Gods”, is upon us. A crack has appeared in the Great Sword of Odin and our demise has been presaged.  The great Wolf Fenrir will be released to devour Odin in the final battle.  A new world will arise from t...

“Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing”, a quote originally attributed to Henry Russell (Red) Sanders, UCLA coach in 1950.  More people, however, associate it with Vince Lombardi, immortal Coach of the Green Bay Packers, who most probably stole it from Russell. God loves Greg Popovich, even if David Stern apparently does not!   In a nationally televised game on Thursday night against the Miami Heat, Popovich sent his star players home: Tim Duncan; Tony Parker; Manu Ginoboli and Da...

Follow me on www.twitter.com/pearlsofwidsm14. In 2008, George Carlin, a great comedian and political satirist passed. As I was reading the Saturday New York Times this week, I could not help thinking that Carlin could have made an entire comedy routine out of this week’s news. Carlin had an amazing perspective on the world. He seemed to be able to find humor in the most absurd places. The following are a few articles that I believe he may have incorporated into his act: (1)    Texas is con...

In order to totally understand a holiday like Thanksgiving, we first have to understand that there is a basic symmetry in the universe.  Thanks to our friends, Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking, we have quarks and quirks, string theory and string bikinis, dark matter and dark meat (from the turkey, of course).  Special thanks must be given to Werner Heisenberg who kindly gave us the “uncertainty principle”, which limits precision in quantum theory.   To apply Heisenberg to our general life, a b...

After an exhausting week of crisis, some normality has finally arrived. On Monday afternoon, we were notified that Fort Lee High School now has power and there will be school this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I will try to keep updating everyone. Please follow me on www.twitter.com at pearlsofwisdm14. I have been attempting to keep communication lines open with school officials in order to access frequent updates. We have a major league election tomorrow. The future of our country is at...

There are “none so blind as those who will not see” (Jeremiah 5:21, and later utilized by satirist Jonathan Swift in his book of idioms “Polite Conversation”).  Since there are members of the Fort Lee community who refuse to acknowledge the decrepit state of our school buildings, I am now forced to be their eyes and ears. Having two children at Fort Lee High School, I have recently had the opportunity to visit the high school on several occasions, e.g. back-to-school night; student events, et...

In my last posted blog, the ideal prerequisites for a Board of Education member were defined. In this blog, the candidates for the BOE will be named, with references to their individual qualifications and in the case of the one incumbent, past performance.  It is important to be educated on the candidates and to make your vote count.   This blog is only one resource available on the candidates.  Hopefully, The Fort Lee Patch and other sources will provide the community with a clear picture of...

The Fort Lee High School AP program is in disarray. As most people know, AP is short for “Advanced Placement.” The AP program was specifically designed to enhance the education of gifted students in a high school, to give them opportunities to excel. The standards to enter AP programs have always been very high in order to insure the program’s integrity. In order to enter the program, students had to have performed in a stellar fashion in prior years, generally in honors courses, and had to h...