“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Back to School – “The Gift of Grab”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Back to School – “The Gift of Grab”

Have you ever gotten those large, bulging envelopes from charitable fund raisers and wondered who is paying for all the printed enclosures, the cards, address labels, pens, t-shirts, ornaments, personalized note pads and attention-getters they contain?

Do you wait in a long line at the only open check-out counter, only to be publicly questioned about your charitable intentions so the store’s owners can brag about how generous they are?

Non-profits are increasingly using aggressive and psychologically manipulative means to enrich themselves; and why not? — Since they are “good” by definition; every act is cleansed. Cornithaca County’s Corporate-Educational-Non-profit- Bureaucrat-Conglomerate is more that “good” by their own definition; they’re “better.”

And if you’re “better,” what acts can’t you justify?

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Back to School – “The TMDL Theory”

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Back to School – “The TMDL Theory”

Another structured lesson for students. Government authorities have traditionally claimed to aim at perfection and have fallen far short. You can imagine how far short they’ve fallen when they only strive to reach adequacy — or you could take a look around and not have to imagine.

You know you live in Cornithaca County when they don’t fix the problem, just change the definition.

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Back to School – The “Lossy” Society

“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Back to School – The “Lossy” Society

Since learning of my Family Farm Fun book being used for home schooling in Agricultural Pollution and Rural Justice topics, I decided to consciously add structured lessons to the content of this book. I hope that they will encourage the imaginative and creative thought that has [except for lip service] been removed from the classroom.

Is this an example of the “Lossy” Society?