Probably my high school chemistry teacher, Albert Carotenuto. Otherwise know as Mr. Caro to his students. He was very tough and bore down on his students to make them think. He allowed no talking or any sounds from anybody from when he walked into the room until he left. He got me thinking I might want to go into chemistry in college. After high school i tried to be a chem major at Fairleigh Dickinson College, but after a year I decided I didn't have the gift for Chemistry and drifted to Electronics. After College i went back to that high school to start an educational TV system and Al and I became friends and stayed in contact until he died last year at age 85.

Another Teacher I only met once was Dr Frank Baxter of USC. My Dad got him to help our educational tv station get started. He was one of these jolly old elfs that could lead you in a direction and keep you thinking for months about what he said. One quote I never forgot went like this: "In my youth I
was lured to Cambridge to study with A.E. Houseman that wrote "A sropshire lad". i took his Lucretius lectures there, but that's another story". In this modern world, do students still travel afar to study with famous professors, or is that a thing of the past?

Yes, I support same-sex marriage. It takes Gay and Lesbian people out of the underclass and makes them equals with Straights.Giving them civil unions, as some sort of consolation prize, is not the answer. Also, the excuse that marriage is for procreating heterosexual couples, just does not add up anymore, as same-sex couples can procreate and make families with the help of sperm or egg donors. Contrary to popular arguments, children of same sex couples, grow up happy and well adjusted.

I'm glad that Obama finally said it was ok, but I'm a bit disappointed he didn't use the Bobby Kennedy quote. - "Some people look at things and say Why? I look at things and say Why not?" Linking up to the Kennedys would have been a real Democratic Party thing that would have gotten him off the hook.