And now, in no particular order, the links:
Nate Cohn argues that Georgia has a good chance of having a Democratic senator soon. I can only hope he's right. While Michelle Nunn is not her father, I certainly hold out more hope for pragmatic governance from the left than the right these days.
David Leonhardt looks at data showing US principals are more likely to view their students as poor than those on other countries. The question is, are they simply making assumptions about these students or are they really seeing more poor students? I'd imagine that principals are overestimating the number of poor children because poverty has an outsized impact on their jobs.
Claire Cain Miller reports on the status of the workforce. She focuses particularly on the impact of technological change and the recession and finds that the workforce is becoming split between high-paid high-skill jobs and the marginally employed. Basically there's nothing left in the middle.
From WaPo's new Storyline, we get a series of climate change stories with a particular focus on Chicago. Here's the one with the best headline: Attack of the Chicago climate change maggots. And: The man who makes sure climate change doesn't ruin your beer.
Libby Nelson on teacher salaries by state. Even after 10 years, some teachers make under $40k. Of course they get summers off, those lazy commie bastards.
The Economist says jobs are not enough for America's economy.
Over at Bloomberg View, Leonid Bershidsky thinks people hate bankers because they don't understand what bankers do. Then he provides some example of people's financial literacy problems and says bankers help people make better decisions with their money. I don't think Leonid Bershidsky knows what bankers do. He even writes this:
Because so many people are financially ignorant, they are ripped off by payday lenders; sold homes they cannot really afford with the help of mortgages they cannot finance; bilked out of their savings by penny stock brokers; and, on the other end of the scale, by bankers offering interest rates lower than inflation. The 1 percent preys on the 70 percent of U.S. illiterates, not because they are poor but because they don't know enough to make informed decisions.As if those aren't all exactly the reason people hate bankers! Of course people don't have the same financial expertise as bankers. That's why they rely on bankers to aid their financial decision making. And then the bankers screw them out of their money. And that's why people hate bankers.
Border Patrol agents protect our borders form Boy Scouts with cameras.
NY Times says we need more investment in pharmaceuticals because there aren't any new antibiotics to combat resistant diseases. Obviously they don't realize there's no profit in healing people. You need to generate repeat customers or your stock price goes down. Penis pills for everyone!
What's the deal with those two conflicting healthcare rulings?
This one took a while to filter through to me: Classcraft makes the classroom into a giant role-playing game. I knew those years of playing WoW would pay off!
New Anti-Abortion Legislation requires doctors to scale 18-foot wall. Funny because it's probably going to be true soon.
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