Not my bag
Over the last few years we have allowed our kids' birthday parties to creep into ever more elaborate and demanding territory. Add an unusual level of work panic and I think we may have hit the Malthusian threshold for such things this past weekend.
Anyway, I can now say from personal experience that the hangover from a kids' party of 14 mostly 4-5 year olds can be startlingly grim, and all the worse for not being explicable through alcohol. Now I know what Lilo and Stitch is about.
In more bloggy news; look. I know there are several people around here who love to discuss this sort of thing - the intersection of higher education, the American welfare system and ideas about market capitalism and its theoretical alternatives. But I'm really not one of them, sorry. I'm the irresponsible soul who thinks history is more interesting for itself than for what it might teach us about how to proceed economically this year. I'm also the wilfully blind soul who doesn't really want to get deep into the business of academia, except insofar as I have to in order to help prop up some place in our society for research and teaching things other than business. So here: it's a book by a person who has a clearly identifiable political position. It tries to tie together US postwar educational policy and postwar socio/economico/political thought. And it tries to do that through the (to my mind) outstandingly perverse medium of the postwar American novel. I do not offer any endorsement of any views on any of these topics by linking it. But if you fancy a go at it anyway, enjoy.
Anyway, I can now say from personal experience that the hangover from a kids' party of 14 mostly 4-5 year olds can be startlingly grim, and all the worse for not being explicable through alcohol. Now I know what Lilo and Stitch is about.
In more bloggy news; look. I know there are several people around here who love to discuss this sort of thing - the intersection of higher education, the American welfare system and ideas about market capitalism and its theoretical alternatives. But I'm really not one of them, sorry. I'm the irresponsible soul who thinks history is more interesting for itself than for what it might teach us about how to proceed economically this year. I'm also the wilfully blind soul who doesn't really want to get deep into the business of academia, except insofar as I have to in order to help prop up some place in our society for research and teaching things other than business. So here: it's a book by a person who has a clearly identifiable political position. It tries to tie together US postwar educational policy and postwar socio/economico/political thought. And it tries to do that through the (to my mind) outstandingly perverse medium of the postwar American novel. I do not offer any endorsement of any views on any of these topics by linking it. But if you fancy a go at it anyway, enjoy.