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8.22.09 - by Beverly K. EakmanThe New York Times’ Benedict Carey reported this week that the Army “plans to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in emotional resiliency.”

8.11.09 - by Beverly K. Eakman Over the past three decades (beginning with the 1970s reject, "The Gong Show,") audiences have been “treated” to dozens of mega-hyped “artists” — most of them phony, scripted, talent-challenged, and insulting to paying listeners and spectators who are either too unschooled (or maybe just too tired) to notice, given the frenetic pace and long commutes now endemic to our society.

by Beverly K. Eakman - June 25, 2009  
Innocent-seeming questionnaires, tests, and surveys are increasingly being disseminated by government officials so that they have complete histories on every citizen.

by Beverly K. Eakman - June 25, 2009
If ever there was a textbook example of why a free people should think twice before tasking government with a job (much less dedicate an entire agency to it), the Food and Drug Administration’s latest goofball maneuver to classify the breakfast cereal “Cheerios” as a drug is it! 

June 25, 2009 - by Beverly K. Eakman - After decades of hand-wringing over nonexistent or, at best, mediocre gains in student academic achievement, the most noticeable thing to come out of all the "studies" aimed at improving schools

by Beverly K. Eakman - June 25, 2009
In the era of whiz-bang technologies, few tasks are simple: a phone call to your doctor, plugging the vacuum into an electrical outlet, opening a container, grocery shopping. Everything is a Really Big Deal!

by B.K. Eakman
At dinner, ten-year-old Johnny is sullen and uncommunicative. It has been a bad day. His parents pass off his ill humor as "going through a phase." Actually, it was an easy day taken up with "another stupid school assembly."