DEI for Me but not for Thee

A Foolish Consistency
April 14, 2026

DEI for Me but Not for Thee1

Many of you will be happy to know that diversity, equity, and inclusion training is alive and well at least one Ohio campus. I received an email back in September informing me that YSU would be offering training that is "designed to provide faculty, staff and select graduate students with a baseline . . .

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Man Ride Dinosaur

A Foolish Consistency
August 27, 2025

These are the people making decisions about education in Ohio.

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The Digital Guilded Age

A Foolish Consistency
January 13, 2025

Move over Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt, the new tech giants are hear to start a new age of unchecked growth and inequality. Just like their 20th Century counterparts, a favorable tax environment coupled with a disregard for the environment (social and natural) is back in style:
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A Transitional Excrement Show

A Foolish Consistency
January 10, 2025

(from the Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg)

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Link to the full article

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Dismantling Public Education in Ohio

A Foolish Consistency
January 08, 2025

“Ohio GOP threatens to cut school funding, calling spending 'unsustainable'” 5 News Cleveland

Genuinely perplexed at the mental gymnastics state lawmakers must do when addressing education in Ohio:

  1. Put in place an unconstitutional funding scheme for K-12 education.

  2. Complain that public schools are failing . . .

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Chipping Away at the Wall Between Church and State

The Case Against Vouchers

A Foolish Consistency
November 11, 2024

Dr. Josh Cowen of Michigan State University author of The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers. A special thanks to my former colleague Dr. Thomas Shipka for recommending this interview.

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Processing the 2024 Election

A Foolish Consistency
November 08, 2024

Silvrback blog image I am still trying to process the elections. Normally if I say to someone I am porcessing something it is strictly an intellectual thing. But I have to admit that there is a good amount of emotional processing going on as well. The two are of course inextricably linked: the anger, frustrations, bewilderment I feel is due in large measure to my . . .

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