Category: Personal Blog
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The Morning After: Grading My Election Predictions
How did one Kentucky teacher’s election predictions hold up? This morning-after review grades the 2026 midterm calls, from Talarico’s historic Texas win and Mississippi’s razor-thin Senate count to central Kentucky, then asks what a 60-day lame duck Congress should do about college sports and the Iran war.
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My Election Morning Predictions: The Bluegrass and Beyond
What will happen in the 2026 midterms? One Kentucky social studies teacher shares his center-left election morning predictions for Congress, the Barr-Booker Senate race, the Sixth District, and Lexington’s mayoral contest, plus a simple way to turn election forecasts into a source literacy lesson.
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What If Roosevelt Survived Milwaukee, Won the Presidency, and Then Died in Office?
#WhatIf Roosevelt wins in 1912, then dies of his Milwaukee wound eight months into office. Hiram Johnson inherits a rudderless Progressive Party, a fractured coalition, and a Mexican Revolution that a weakened White House cannot manage with the coherence Wilson brought to it.
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EPL Needs to Give Man City the SMU Treatment
IMHO ManCity punishment should be: – it’s ownership needs to be stripped and sold. -all players get a first pick on transfers. -all player agents knowingly involved need to be restricted and tossed out of EPL at the minimum but all UEFA leagues would be ideal. -all transfer fees for players are equal to original…
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The Heart of the Final Frontier: Revisiting the Genesis Trilogy
Before streaming, science fiction was a scarce treat; you caught Star Wars when a network aired it and waited for Star Trek to turn up on TV. For me, three films defined everything. The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home form one continuous story about hubris, friendship, and repair, and…
