the game of life

By a slim majority, most verterinarians are women. Tip from Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe. Read more

Leave it to the Indians to come up with something this effective: Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

"Thomas H. Benton" recommends students avoid taking a PhD in the humanities: It’s hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource. For universities, the impact of graduate programs on the lives of those students is an acceptable externality, like dumping toxins into Read more

…how much do you know about ours? Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more

Check out this thumbsucker who’s got a mad on about quantification.  Maybe he needs to get off his qualitative butt and quantify this.  Dork.Tips from Language Log and the Instapundit. Read more

Well done, buddy. Read more

William McGurn has a great opinion piece in the WSJ about "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe and the need for middle-skill jobs. In an entry headlined "WORK IS NOT THE ENEMY," Mr. Rowe nails his thesis to his Web page: "We’ve convinced ourselves that ‘good jobs’ are the result of a four-year degree. That’s bunk. Not Read more

Big Debt, Small Law blows the whistle on sweatshops for aspiring young lawyers.  And I thought programming was grueling. Tip from Ann Coulter (18 August). Read more

The Urban Chicken Movement flexes its muscle in Indiana. Read more

I want Derrius Quarles to be my doctor when he graduates.  He’ll intimidate the sickness out of me. Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more