Saturday May 25, 2013

Tom Purcell

Speech to the best graduation class ever

05/14/2013 - 5:00pm

Tom Purcell

Students, faculty, family members and friends, it is my great honor to deliver your commencement speech today.
It is my opinion that our society must take every opportunity to praise our young people for their hard work and accomplishment, and that is why ceremonies such as this are so important to our country's future.
It was not so long ago, after all, that a more conservative...

Finding the authentic means embracing fake

05/02/2013 - 5:00pm

I turned 51 last week and it's official: I have turned into my father. The world makes less sense to me every day. My fellow man puzzles me more every day. I cite exhibit A:...

Reverse psychology vs. the Nanny State

04/30/2013 - 5:00pm

Get this: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to ban the sale of cigarettes - now legal to people at age 18 - to people younger than 21. Yeah, that ought to work!...

The higher our tech, the ruder we get

04/16/2013 - 5:00pm

According to Reuters, social media users face "an increase in rudeness online with people having no qualms about being less polite virtually than in person." I think our rudeness...

Are humans getting dumber?

02/26/2013 - 6:00pm

"The report said people are getting dumber — at least I think that's what it said, but the big words kept throwing me off." "Ah, yes, you speak of a recent study by Stanford...

Biden for president? Say it ain’t so, Joe

02/05/2013 - 6:00pm

Maybe he's just what America needs. Then again, maybe not. I speak of Vice President Joe Biden - who, according to Politico, is "intoxicated" by thoughts of being inaugurated as...