I wonder what Alan Rubenstein’s reaction would be if the robe and gavel were on the other foot, so to speak.
How might the long-time Bucks County judge receive repeated humiliating comments directed toward him if he stood before the bench, not seated behind it?
How, if in Rubenstein’s moment of turmoil and confusion and fear and uncertainty, as his world was turning upside down, a family court judge looked down upon him with a gaze of contempt and delivered stinging insults. Perhaps assessed him as being “too dumb,” and that he “lacked self-respect,” and, despite the judge lacking evidence or training to make such a determination, called him an alcoholic, and said of his choice of partners that, after moving on from his current one, he’d “pick another loser.”
The beauty of science is everywhere. In the thunder and lightning that explodes across an ink-black sky. In the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the medications we take.
There’s also another beauty of science: Miss America Camille Schrier, Doylestown born, Bucks County raised. As stunningly intelligent and personable as she is lovely. Pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University.
And still as crazy about science as when she was a little girl and her mom schooled her on the science that caused baking dough to become cookies in the kitchen of their Newtown home.
“When I talk to students about science, I tell them I was the kid who didn’t care about something until you told me how I could use it,” Schrier said by phone from Richmond, Virginia, where she returned this month in preparation to resume her studies in August. “When I go in and try to relate biochemistry and biology to students, I use things like baking cookies