Bretigne ShafferBUT WHO WOULD BUILD THE ROAAAAAAAAADS?!??!?!?!?!It’s funny how complete untruths can be transformed into the kind of certainties that become the foundation for an entire generation’s…Jul 27, 2016Jul 27, 2016
Bretigne ShafferAbusive Power and the Culture of Obedience“But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not…Jul 13, 2016Jul 13, 2016
Bretigne ShafferKunta Kinte Had it ComingI remember watching this scene when it first appeared, in the TV miniseries adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots, in 1977. This scene was…Jul 9, 2016Jul 9, 2016
Bretigne ShafferWhat Americans Can Learn from the VietnameseThis is something I wrote (gulp!) more than 20 years ago. I’m re-posting it here because I think it is instructive regarding the financial…Jul 6, 2016Jul 6, 2016
Bretigne ShafferNo, I Don’t Support the TroopsI usually stay pretty quiet on Memorial Day. I know that it’s one of the times people are least likely to be open to hearing my views on…May 31, 2016May 31, 2016
Bretigne ShafferRemembering Mr. Miyamoto“People don’t want to confront… that their government could have done something like this unless it was absolutely necessary. …it’s almost…May 10, 2016May 10, 2016
Bretigne ShafferMythical CreaturesThere’s a poster up at the front of the room with a cartoon mouse painting at an easel, and the words “Express Yourself!” But every time…Apr 28, 2016Apr 28, 2016
Bretigne ShafferFear and Flying, Then and NowIn 1988, I fled college without having graduated, saved a little bit of money and got on an airplane for Taiwan. Martial law had just been…Apr 21, 2016Apr 21, 2016
Bretigne ShafferDog-Eat-Dog Statism for Special-Needs Families: You’re Either at the Table or You’re on the MenuI wouldn’t have expected a conference on therapy for children with autism and related disorders to have much to say about politics, but in…Apr 13, 2016Apr 13, 2016
Bretigne ShafferMust We Choose Between Mob Justice and the Police State?On May 25, 1911, Laura Nelson, her baby daughter and her teenaged son were kidnapped from a jail in Oklahoma by an angry mob. The two had…Mar 3, 2016Mar 3, 2016