by Michael Carlon | Nov 19, 2009 | Editorials
President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the majority leaders in both houses of Congress are not the first group of people to realize that the health care system in the United States is in need of reform. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has been preaching on this...
by Michael Carlon | Nov 8, 2009 | Editorials
Originally printed in the Nov 12 Edition of The Stamford AdvocateLike many readers of the Stamford Advocate, I have been following the back and forth on ability grouping in our City’s public school. Both sides use their own biases to select data to support their...
by Michael Carlon | Oct 31, 2009 | Faith and Pop Culture
Certain songs are like bookmarks; just hearing them takes us back to certain times in our lives (you were so right Kenny). When I was in college, The Barenaked Ladies were just breaking with their first hit The Old Apartment; a quick piece of trivia, the video for...
by Michael Carlon | Oct 27, 2009 | Faith and Pop Culture
I remember studying psychology as an undergraduate and being introduced to Gestalt thinking. The primary philosophy underlying Gestalt thinking is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In practical terms, this means that we as people are all more than...
by Michael Carlon | Oct 15, 2009 | Faith and Pop Culture, Self Awareness
I remember being a kid and listening to certain tapes in my Sony Walkman so much that they would wear out and sound distorted after a while; kind of like when the batteries were running low or when the dentist gives you too much laughing gas. I would listen to certain...
