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I'm a retired High School Advanced Placement English teacher, as well as a cross country and track coach. In retirement I also spent 10 years as an elected school board trustee. I currently work part-time as a host for the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.
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In trying to understand the January 6th, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, I found one analog in history, the Beer Hall Putsch of November 8-9 in Bavaria against the Weimar Republic of Germany. Although the coup failed and Hitler went to prison, he and the Nazis rose to power 10 years later.

As a former trustee of the Mammoth Unified School District, I can attest to the accuracy and sentiment of this article in today's L.A. Times!

I defy you to read this story by the great James Rainey and come away feeling reassured about the future of the @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

When I first learned of Chat GPT, I downloaded the app and tried it out. I wrote this introductory article and followed it up with several more.

My latest column: The GOP's overt threat to kill Social Security www.latimes.com/business/sto...

medium.com/me/stories/p.... In addition to my YouTube channel I also occasionally write articles for Medium, sometimes about education or politics and occasionally about random topics.

I also have a YouTube travel devoted mostly to travel and family.

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Religion does NOT belong in our schools! Agreed? ✋

Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Our latest episode on the dismissals without prejudice and latest in NY, DC & FLa and what’s next. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.