Category: community and culture

  • A Little Less Minty

    A Little Less Minty

    Mint Mobile is good, and could be great, but just isn’t as good as it once was. I’ve been a long-term Mint customer, and have been spending only fifteen dollars a month for my cell service. Moreover, I pay for the entire year, which means I needn’t think about it for twelve months, and more…

  • Don’t Do It

    Don’t Do It

    I thought that I could follow my friend’s recommendation to ignore other critics’ opinions, and would see Doin’ It, a new classroom comedy by Sara Zandieh, Neel Patel, and Lilly Singh as a result of its trailer. Maybe I was missing stuff by using aggregated critical opinion I mused that I’d otherwise be glad to…

  • From Bad to Worse

    From Bad to Worse

    Current educational challenges are bad enough without the Chicago Tribune making these worse, which it did with its recent editorial. In it, its editorial board admonishes “emboldened” teachers who are pressuring students to accept teachers’ politics or be excluded from classroom communities, which it argues deprives these students of their rights. It argues that such…