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677 Weeks (an average of 3,248 views each week)
156 Months (an average of 14,096 views each month)
Dear Reader,
Thank you for reading my blog!
Sincerely,
Glen Brown
Top 10 Readership Areas:
United States 1,470,000+
France 97,000+
United Kingdom 41,000+
Russia 39,000+
Italy 38,000+
Ukraine 34,000+
Germany 32,000+
Sweden 20,000+
China 15,000+
Total from other countries (and perhaps from other planets in the GN-z11 galaxy) 210,000+
3,654 Days
521 Weeks
120 Months
Total Blog Posts: 2,340
Total Page Views Since March 11, 2011: 1,865,000+
Total Page Views from the U.S.A.: 1.39 million
Total Page Views Outside of the U.S.A.: 475,000+
Yearly Average: 186,500
Daily Average: 510
2011: 27,602 (Daily Average: 93)
2012: 150,261 (Daily Average: 411)
2013: 311,281 (Daily Average: 853)
2014: 221,619 (Daily Average: 607)
2015: 174,027 (Daily Average: 477)
2016: 238,884 (Daily Average: 653)
2017: 192,632 (Daily Average: 528)
2018: 218,493 (Daily Average: 559)
2019: 125,618 (Daily Average: 344)
2020: 180,238 (Daily Average: 492)
Notable:
From Feb. 10, 2018 – Mar. 13, 2018 (31 Days), there
were 50,000+ pageviews.
From Dec. 24, 2017 – Mar. 13, 2018 (79 Days), there
were 100,000+ pageviews.
Most pageviews in one day: 5,801 (Mar. 14, 2018)
Most pageviews in one month: 50,751 (March 2018)
A Few Favorite Posts of Mine:
This Retired Teacher's Concerns (August 1, 2020)
…Until this country has a unified and coherent federal, state and local
strategy; until the federal government increases its funding for health
and safety for all schools across this nation; until there is federal
funding for parents to assist with their at-home childcare and technology and
federal funding to feed disadvantaged children; until business entrepreneurs
and the Trump administration (and not the schools!) solve the false choice they
have created for parents of school-age children—all schools and universities
across this nation should open only on online this fall and not until this
pandemic is totally under control! Furthermore, until
the morons among us stop spreading misinformation and conspiracies because of
their own gullibility and ignorance; until the Creons among us cease their
stubbornness and spitefulness; until the pathological narcissists among us end
their gas-lighting, this unabated coronavirus will continue to proliferate, and
thousands of Americans will die. For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2020/08/this-retired-teachers-concerns.html
What Really Matters (January 6, 2020)
…What really matters is how we live our lives each day with or without a
belief in God; that we accept one another's beliefs (or non-beliefs) as long as
they do not advocate terrorism. What really matters is how we live with the
most significant questions unanswered or unknowable; that we pursue a life
based on logic, reason, critical thinking, justice, solidarity, intellectual
honesty and life-long learning; that we live our lives peacefully and with
tolerance and mutual respect, and with compassion and love for one another, and
that we oppose hatred, racism, bigotry, subjugation, misogyny, xenophobia,
hypocrisy and indifference... because "like a boil that can never be cured...
but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and
light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to
the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be
cured" (King), for we are responsible for what happens in our lives, and
for what happens in the lives of others. For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2020/01/what-really-matters.html
America and Guns (February 19, 2018)
…Instead of gun control laws that will affect law-abiding responsible
citizens who own reasonable self-defense weapons for protection and may conceal
and carry those weapons; instead of more political party accusations and
useless prayers for the victims, legislators should focus upon and address the
causes of violent crimes: domestic white nationalism, racism, bigotry
(power, hatred, revenge, anger, notoriety), religious fundamentalism, economic
injustice, poverty, unemployment, gang activity, drug trafficking, inefficient
law enforcement in high-crime areas, suicide, mental illness, media's
perpetuation of fear, and Trump's demagoguery and xenophobia… For the
article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2018/02/america-and-guns.html
The Continuing Demoralization of University and College
Adjunct Faculty (November 1, 2017)
…There are no due process protections for adjunct faculty. There is no
equal pay for equal work. There is no professional advancement. There is no
equity in the lack of health insurance and retirement benefits available for
adjunct faculty. There is little to no inclusion in the way higher education’s
formal decision-making procedures and structures are made. Indeed, adjunct
faculty are simply part-time contractors, “lecturers,” or non-essential
“marginalized” hires who are disenfranchised from high-level governance and
required to carry out most of the responsibilities of the full-time faculty
(and sometimes at multiple institutions), but for less than one-fifth of the
salary of the full-time faculty and without meaningful job security from one
semester to another… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-continuing-demoralization-of.html
To the Sponsors of House Joint Resolution Constitutional
Amendment 18: An Unconstitutional Attempt to Amend the Pension Protection
Clause (March 6, 2017)
…To anyone attempting to amend the Pension Protection Clause: my response
to you is to read Article XIII, Section 5: “Pension and Retirement
Rights” of the Illinois Constitution. Read Article 1, Section 16: “Ex
Post Facto Laws and Impairing Contracts” of the Illinois
Constitution. Read Article I, Section 15: “Right of Eminent
Domain” (the Takings Clause) of the Illinois
Constitution. Read Article I, Section 2: “Due Process and
Equal Protection” of the Illinois Constitution. Read Article 1,
Section 10 of the United States Constitution: “No State shall… pass any…
ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts…”
Read Amendment V, Section 1 of the United States
Constitution: “No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or
property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public
use, without just compensation.” Read Amendment XIV, Section
1 of the United States Constitution: “Due Process and Equal
Protection.” To ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S.
Constitution and change laws that protect one group of people is to ignore due
process and equal protection of the laws that guarantee contractual agreements
as well. Finally, read the Illinois Supreme Court ruling… For the
article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2017/03/to-sponsors-of-house-joint-resolution.html
Though it is the Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, we
have a very different country “worth saving” today (November 19, 2014)
…We live in a country where breaking a
constitutional contract with retirees and public employees is deemed morally and legally justifiable
by legislative liars and thieves; where public
employees and retirees are victims of plutocratic, concentrated economic
privilege and power that accommodates and reinforces an enormous inequality of
organizational resources for corporate self-seekers; where public schools are
for sale; where public school teachers have been assaulted by a barrage of
attacks on their autonomy, dignity and self-respect; where labor unions have
lost political power and influence; where there is no pay equity or job
security for college adjunct faculty, and where “memories of the university as
a citadel of democratic learning have been replaced by a university eager to
define itself largely as an adjunct of corporate power.”… For the
article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2014/11/though-it-is-151st-anniversary-of.html
An Examination of the Illinois “Pension Protection Clause,”
or What Part of These Words Do Some Politicians Not Understand? (July 13,
2014)
…If there is anything else, we might examine regarding the Pension
Protection Clause and its relationship to a reality that reveals repeated
attempts by the wealthy elite, their politicians and the media to steal
constitutionally-guaranteed pension benefits and rights, perhaps we should also
dispute the relentless attacks on the very intelligibility of the English
language by these liars and thieves. We know the Pension Protection
Clause is valid because it is understood to be a contractual right and
guarantee that public employees have earned… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-examination-of-illinois-pension.html
The Pension Protection Clause and the State of Illinois’
“Reserved Sovereign Powers” (June 12, 2014)
…The Illinois General Assembly does not possess "reserved sovereign
powers" to diminish a constitutionally-protected pension. The state's
chronic underfunding of its public pension systems for decades cannot warrant
the impairment or diminishment of public employees' and retirees' pension
benefits and rights… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-contract-clause-and-state-of.html
Illinois Pension Reform: My address to members of the State
Universities Annuitants Association (April 26, 2013)
…Instead of protecting public pension rights and benefits, which have a
legal basis under Illinois State Law; instead of restructuring the state’s
revenue base to pay for the state’s growth in expenditures and its
recklessly-accumulated debts and obligations, current policymakers have chosen
to diminish the public employees’ constitutional rights and their benefits,
even though revenue restructuring and pension debt re-amortization are the best
legal and moral solutions... For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2013/04/illinois-pension-reform-my-address-to.html
Illinois Pension Reform Is Without Legal and Moral
Justification (May 29, 2012)
…What is at stake right now is not a potential adjudication of claims that
public employees will have against policymakers who want changes to public
employees’ benefits and rights, but to respect the public employees’
contractual and constitutional promises because they are legitimate rights and
moral concerns not only for public employees, but for every citizen in
Illinois: for any unwarranted act of stealing a person’s guaranteed rights and
compensation will violate interests in morality and ethics and the basic
principles of both the State and United States Constitutions that protect every
one of us… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2012/05/sb-1673-is-without-legal-and-moral.html
Reflections on a Philosophy of Teaching and Learning (March
11, 2011)
…With a fundamental commitment to human rights, founded on philosophical
principles and ideals, I challenge my students—through literature, philosophy,
history, psychology, poetry and science, and through their own writing—to
pursue a life based on logic, reason, critical thinking, selflessness,
compassion, empathy, humility, integrity, dignity, political and social
justice, responsibility, self-restraint, mutual respect, and life-long
learning… For the article: https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-my-classroom-students-learn-that-i.html
So, what was posted on this blog during 2020? A few highlights:
Burning Australia, Trump's dangerous ignorance and revenge, Illinois public pension debt, Alzheimer’s research, climate change, Trump's impeachment...
Covid-19: pandemic deniers, panic buying, the ineptitude of the Trump administration, business and school shutdowns, teaching during the pandemic, anti-mask protests, herd immunity, vaccines...
The murders of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, racism, Black Lives Matter, rioting and looting, Confederate statues, John Lewis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
Conspiracy theories, political polarization, the election: mail-in voting, mail sabotage, schadenfreude, morons and egotists, Republican hypocrisy and treason…
Blog Views Since March 2011: 1,839,920
United States: approximately 1.37 million
Other Countries: 470,000+
(France, United Kingdom, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, China, Canada…)
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