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Andrew Sullivan wants to know why Americans go out when they're sick. He looks at several responses but I found the one about our unbridled individuality and sense of self importance to be most persuasive.
How vulnerable is India to ebola? That's the real black swan right there. But we're so worried about Dallas and NYC that there's no chance we'll take a leadership role internationally.
Dropbox, Airbnb, and the fight over San Francisco's public spaces. The short version: The rich win. Why should socialism for the rich stop with banks and congress? Those public parks ought to be open to every white, employed, tax paying male!
The workers who destroy your right to post dick-pics on Facebook.
Julian Assange says Google is not what it seems. The whole piece is worth reading but here's a snippet:
All this makes Rand Paul's recent speech on foreign policy seem like a breath of fresh air. Except that, like most politicians, he's completely full of it and changes his message to fit his audience.In a series of colorful emails they discussed a pattern of activity conducted by Cohen under the Google Ideas aegis, suggesting what the “do” in “think/do tank” actually means.Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and “corporate responsibility” work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s “director of regime change.”According to the emails, he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East. He could be placed in Egypt during the revolution, meeting with Wael Ghonim, the Google employee whose arrest and imprisonment hours later would make him a PR-friendly symbol of the uprising in the Western press.
Where the Tea Party rules. Also known as Anytown USA, home of John Everyman.
Speaking of Anytown, here's a list of every school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012, 87 in all.
The making of the warrior cop. Yes, police need those grenade launchers so they can "persuade" you into forking over your money for their civil asset forfeiture program.
5 things Huff Po thinks you didn't know about slavery. Sadly, most people probably did not know these things.
Arnold Kling's been on a roll lately. Here he is writing about the failed convergence of financial services and supermarkets (although I've seen lots of tax prep booths in recent years). I like what he adds at the end:
And, we're getting the bubble back together. Low down payments are back! Call Ditech.com today.As another historical point, when the S&L crisis hit, the government set up the Resolution Trust Corporation. Each failing institution was divided into a “good bank” and a “bad bank,” with the good bank merged into another bank and the assets of the bad bank bought by the RTC. While this was a somewhat distasteful bailout, it was conducted under the rule of law. When TARP was enacted in 2008, Congress and the public were led to expect something similar to the RTC, with TARP used to buy “toxic assets” in a blind, neutral way. Instead they ended up calling the biggest banks into a room and “injecting” TARP funds into them. They also spent TARP funds on restructuring General Motors. It was the opposite of government acting in a predicable, law-governed way. It was Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner making ad hoc, personal decisions. I think that in the U.S., that is what bank concentration leads to–arbitrary use of power. That is why as a libertarian I do not think that allowing banks to become too big to fail is desirable.
If I'm reading this right, about 67% of the American workforce earned less than $43,000 in 2013.
Misleading headline misleads. Yeah, the only thing this school did was pay teachers 6 figure salaries. Other than that, the school is perfectly representative of American public schools.
The myth of the student athlete. More like the open secret of the student athlete. The sly con-job perpetrated by the NCAA of the student athlete. The outright lie of the student athlete.The $125,000 number was eye-catching, but it was just the start of the school's approach to teaching. Teachers were also eligible for a bonus of between 7 to 12 percent of their salary. The teachers, who are not unionized, went through a rigorous selection process that included a daylong "audition" based on their teaching skills. The typical teacher already had six years of classroom experience before they were hired.Teachers at TEP also get more time to collaborate and played a bigger role in school decision-making than teachers in other jobs. Teachers were paired up to observe each others' lessons and provide feedback, collaboration that experts agree is important but happens too infrequently. During a six-week summer training, teachers also helped set school policy.
Of course student athletes aren't the only ones getting screwed:
Our country needs well-educated people. We used to build bridges and repair roads. We built skyscrapers during the Great Depression. Students now usually need to take out loans, so the big question is whether the training is worth the cost. The local salary for a BS in computer science or MS in statistics is around $35,000-40,000, probably more in industry with less job security. Is college worth it? What is it for graduates of nice liberal arts schools? How are jobs for welders? Congress is making it easier to get student loans for STEM degrees, but repayment and finding a job are still problems.Has science disproven free will? Only if you have a very limited definition of free will:
Daniel Wegner’s case amounts to generalising the surprising discovery that in Ouija-board situations, people can often be made to feel they are the authors of acts that are in fact caused by the experimenter’s accomplice.More excellent game criticism which argues games are better without a damsel in distress.
You can read the most expensive comic in history, Action Comics no. 1, right here.
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