Up, up and away with my beautiful education bubble
In just under 30 years, we've gone from students being able to pay for tuition with summer jobs, and part time employment, students being able to graduate with no debt to now. Students are graduating with huge mountains of debt, and degrees that let them work in Starbucks.
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Truth and Music
A memorial tribute to a great friend:
http://jasonfrith.tumblr.com/post/23171538961/truth-and-music
Dear Idiot CNN Writer:
In response to your recent opinion piece- The type of parents who beat their children are not in the target demographic of a book like GTFTS. The people who buy GTFTS are the parents who actually care enough about their kids to care that they are not going to sleep....and they have the good sense which allows them to realize that parenting is stressful, but that stress should not be taken out on their kids- this is where humor comes in.
An open letter to Apple's MobileMe/iCloud team
Let me begin by saying that I have been a Mac user since I bought my first Powermac 6500 in 1998 and a .mac/mobileme subscriber since December 2004. I have had no problem paying for the service in that time. I've felt that the value which the service provided fit my needs very well.
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A Memorial Day Pledge
I will not raise my precious child to kill your precious child.
And if it is within my power,
I will not hand over my beloved child to others
to kill your beloved child, or
to learn how to kill the one you cherish.
–Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy.
My love for Jessica
...The truth is that I have always considered this to be the perfect rock and roll instrumental (a little gift from my father). The tune is infectious, and Chuck Leavell's piano solo is sheer brilliance. Two years ago- at about this time of the night- I was sitting on a stool waiting in a long, silent, stark-white hallway.... the scene could have been taken straight from a Kubrick movie. …
Snowpocalypse 2011 diary entry #1:
Happy Fourth of July, America
As we celebrate the holiday we have grown accustomed to calling "Independence Day," author, and professor of economics, Dr Thomas DiLorenzo reminds us of the "Reason for the Season"
Happy birthday, America. While we celebrate our country's birth, let us remember these important (and often forgotten) thoughts from America's first secessionist document:
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...and who, exactly didn't see this coming?
Nick Gillespie over at reason.com brings us this (accurate, in my opinion) prediction of the forthcoming bursting of the education bubble. This bubble has been growing festering for a good long while now with help, in no small part, from federal loan guarantees which are purported to help make college affordable, and not at all designed to drive business to the same banks which will soon be lobbying for another bailout (*wink*wink*). …
Make me President. I know who's ass to kick
I'm going to make a chilling and bold statement.
I think you'd better sit down....
Obama is working in cahoots with BP. I know it's a real shocker that someone would accuse a modern president of being so chummy chummy with a heavily subsidized industry which uses much of that subsidization to fill-to-overflowing the coffers of election campaigns. …
