All in Rants & Raves

Phoning It In

Here’s something you may not know unless you’re a public school teacher: Most kids have cellphones in class. And despite rules that they must be powered down during the school day, they’re all turned on.

Little House. Little Minds.

Pity Wilder didn’t have the foresight to know that risk takers - like her parents - who rode covered wagons into the wilderness, lived in sod dugouts and buried their babies on the prairies would someday be regarded as white supremacists instead of settlers.

If only she’d cast her parents as villains.