Scientists confirm: Modern Pop Music Really is Louder and Does All Sound the Same.

I thought this was an Onion headline. Nope. (There's a big grin on my face.)

I just helped a student looking for materials for a paper due by 6:30 p.m. today. (Ouch!) What upset me, though, was not so much the disorganization as the assignment. He had to write a paper on "the rise in prison population, who's profiting by it, and whether the money would be better spent elsewhere." Gee, I wonder what the acceptable answer ( Read more... )