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College Ain’t for Everyone…
…and I’m no longer a Voice in the Wilderness saying so. Writing in the Washington Examiner, Michael Barone says American higher education has been in serious trouble for the past two decades. Yes, it’s true that American universities science and technology departments lead the world, and the (increasingly unscientific) social sciences and (often inhumane) humanities Read more
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Why I STILL Don’t Play the Lottery
Not only is it a bad bet, but it’s a regressive tax on the poor. Shame on us for allowing our states to perpetuate this. Tip from the Geek Press. Read more
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Top College Majors for Jobs
Lots of handwringing discussion at the source, mostly not worth reading. Read more
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Treat him ugly? How about tar and feathers?
Four days into his announced candidacy, and our rather rough-hewn Aggie governor is already ruffling feathers by suggesting that “Texans might want to treat the Republican economist ‘pretty ugly’ if he ‘prints more money between now and the election.’” And of course, the usual band of thumbsuckers from President Obama to this Emory University professor who Read more
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Forgiveness => Punish
IBD explains that “debt forgiveness” is a code phrase for “screw the responsible creditor.” Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Let’s all pay our Fair Share
NRO’s Peter Kisanow is coming around to my idea of the Non-Alternative Minimum Tax: everybody kicks in something, even if it’s only a few bucks. Read more
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Why Twitter matters
Read about how one artisan blew up Urban Outfitters with a tweet. Then read this take-away. Now I gotta figure out how to leverage Twitter for my students, without it becoming a farookin’ nuisance. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Meet the Cape-a-Bility Challenge
59,000 of us got jobs, but all another 6,000 of them got were these stupid capes. I wonder how the capes will look on their resumes… Tip from Drudge, who couldn’t permalink his a$$. Read more
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The Dutch Book, made simple
Briggsy gives a dead-simple explanation for spotting and profiting from a Dutch Book set of odds. Even an undergrad can do it! Read more
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My kind of guy
Read about the energy biz in the NY Times: “Things are picking up,” said Cody Chase, 24, who had just finished an overtime shift at a coal mine north of here and was having a 7 a.m. burrito and beer at a downtown breakfast joint. Hours at the mine are up, said Mr. Chase, who Read more
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