Recently President Obama called for a renewed focus on education, particularly mathematics and science. At the same time politicians of all stripes are arguing over the budget and each seems to have its own set of numbers. Perhaps the renewed focus on mathematics should be on addition and subtraction so that there is some common ground on what the budget is exactly. But then again mathematics is short hand logic, which is anathema to a politician, particularly when manipulation is available. Worse still, there is only one right answer.
Back to the political debate: folks are always taking contradictory polls. It might be informative for the pollsters to ask our representatives (the inclusive small ‘r’) in Washington, what exactly they think the words, “general welfare and commonwealth” mean?
This morning in the Boston Sunday Globe, Ms. Vennochi asked a question that bears repeating. After his recent revelation about childhood abuse, how did Senator Brown endorse a candidate who had credibly been accused of ignoring the sexual abuse of a fourteen year old girl? Is this an after-effect of Brown’s original abuse?
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