In recent years common wisdom has dictated that Democrats believed that Republicans were evil, and Republicans believed that Democrats were simply wrong-headed. Despite fundamental policy disagreements, in times of crisis
Joseph Campbell was the delightful mythicist who spent a lifetime studying religions, tribes and cultures. A rarity, he was a non-pompous intellectual. He wrote the ground-breaking book, “Hero With a
It all started about 30 years ago, when the CEO of the company I was working at decided to outsource circuit card design and manufacturing. While many of the company’s
Every day we see in newspapers or hear on news channels of how many people have died of COVID-19, and the numbers are rising. However, the general population does not
What went wrong when the U.S. and the U.K. were considered the two best countries to be prepared to handle a serious pandemic, which we are experiencing now? One of
You may recall Proposition 67, which was on the November 2016 ballot and narrowly passed. That measure banned the use of single-use grocery bags by grocers and certain other retail
One of the most common arguments against racial justice from whites goes something like this: Sure, history has been unfair to Black folks, but why should I take responsibility for
It appears that a fruit vendor was being harassed by a couple in Santa Clarita. I saw the tweet. I was disgusted by both sides of the argument. First of
How do we achieve giving the same choices to study to our kids in elementary schools? I do not know about the U.S., but I can refer to what I
If we are to believe the polls, Joe Biden will win in a landslide in November. This is coming from the very same pollsters that showed Hillary Clinton with an
President Donald Trump has sent his Imperial Storm Trooper goons up to Portland to show America what his brand of “Law and Order” looks like. Bunches of military-grade, dressed-for-Armageddon, dubiously
Ironically, there’s one thing I haven’t heard a lot about in the recent school discussions: learning. There’ve been debates on teacher and child safety; discussions about meals and socialization, concerns
I see that the White House is urging those in charge of our schools to open them up in the fall, although many school districts have already declared that they
Continuing a theme that imagines life through the lens of videogame design, there are current topical conditions to illustrate further how a hypothetical game can model our predicament. In early
There have been a number of letters to the editor lately that, shall we say, are not well thought out — see Ms. Betty Aronson’s recent reply to one such
By David Hegg To quote Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher and Nazi party leader, is often to evoke wide-scale criticism and rightly so. But in an important area he was
If you are in a conversation to mask or not to mask: Shut up, ask yourself a question. What’s the right thing to do? Then put on your mask. Your
An additional death from COVID-19 at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital. Forgive me for sounding cold-hearted and callous, but OMG, you’d think it was the end of the world. Any word
Bob Kellar has served our city longer and more diligently than any other City Council member. We should be honoring him rather than pillaging him for remarks made a decade
By The Signal Editorial Board The William S. Hart Union High School District board voted unanimously Wednesday to have students, teachers and staff work online for this fall, at least