There was also a bunch of sturm and drang over something as pedestrian as the President talking to high school students. This article from Reason.com, The President is Not a Guidance Counselor is pretty typical of the bad reasoning surrounding Obama talking to kids. In particular, what everyone doesn't want to say, I feel, is the obvious: that ( Read more... )

My revelation today:

Educationally, the US is schizophrenic. There's not a politician in America who doesn't talk about the need for more high tech education to create more high tech industries, which purport to be the Economy of the Future. But . . . isn't the reality a lot different? Aren't most jobs in America really, really deskilled from ( Read more... )

I mostly shouldn't post to other people's blogs. I'm a bit of a jerk, and a lot of other people are a bit of a jerk, so it often escalates. I justify being a little bit of a jerk because they're being a little jerky, and then you're calling someone a shitrat fuckerface. The web has revolutionized communication, mostly allowing people to scream ( Read more... )