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Given the situation in Wisconsin, I think this article is especially important right now: What's Left After Higher Education is Dismantled.
There's no set of institutions capable of or interested in providing quality, affordable higher education for a large population outside public schools. We must remember this as state legislatures continue to dismantle, defund and privatize public higher education, because as that project succeeds no one else will step into the void and provide the education that will disappear.
Other thoughts on higher education. Professors rarely profess that they don't teach:
But when I turned to the article, there was … Jorge’s picture. NYU was writing about his project, but since they were bragging on him to the outside world, they’d upgraded his title to Professor. Now imagine that Jorge had showed up, brandishing that magazine, to a Faculty Senate meeting. He would have been thrown out. Tenured faculty won’t let adjuncts play in any reindeer games, but our institutions won’t tell the public which teachers are and aren’t ‘real’ faculty either. The distinction between ‘people we trust to teach’ and ‘people we allow to be professors’ is not just something the public doesn’t understand; it’s something we actively hide.
The graduation rates in New Orleans are back to pre-Katrina levels. So much for charter schools. But, as always, the charters made someone rich, and that's the real reason they exist.
Like the French, German tourists are advised to take American prudishness into account: “Nudism” and even “nude bathing on the beach” may be construed as indecent exposure by the Americans. The German government also urges its citizens to refrain from taking photos of naked children or babies, including their own, since Americans are inclined to see pedophilia in even the most innocent photos of babies in the bathtub: To U.S. law enforcement officials, “the line between ‘sexually suggestive’ photos and harmless family pictures is blurred.” And never, ever leave your child unsupervised: Americans may lock you up if you leave a child under 12 or 13 unattended, even for a moment.
While receiving subsidies is nothing new for the Forbes 400 or even multi-hundred millionaire pikers like Mitt Romney, a recent story in the Los Angeles Times (via Good Jobs First) shows that Elon Musk (#34 in the Forbes 400) is a champion at getting subsidies for his companies. According to the Times article, Musk's three companies, Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX, have received a total of $4.9 billion (nominal value) in subsidies over the years. The article says that Tesla and Solar City stand out in the importance of the subsidies relative to the size of the company.
So how did those bailouts turn out? Pretty well actually. Sometimes I let my biases get the better of me and I forget that the auto company bailouts led to an increased of 200k jobs and that TARRP and expansive Fed actions actually generated a profit.
When a new job posting was going up for a different department, the hiring manager asked the rest of us for advice on the job requirements section and I said, “if you have to have requirements, make them actual requirements. Like, you would legitimately throw away the application if any of these things are missing. If you have 5 requirements and you’d talk to a candidate who satisfied 4 of the 5, throw away the least important or rarest one.”
An argument in favor of the TPP. Not saying I agree but it's good to engage with contrary ideas.
9 dead and a warning to stay indoors after lions and tigers are loosed by floods in Tbilisi, Georgia. If only it was our Georgia.
Uber is using GPS to punish drivers who get too close to protests. Ah, good. Big tech is in the hands of the body politic. Sorry citizen, you aren't allowed to go near this free speech zone.
Rich people in California are not going to be following water bans. They'll pay the fines knowing it's a pittance and that the poors will be the ones really in trouble when the water runs out. Awesome quote:
RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. — Drought or no drought, Steve Yuhas resents the idea that it is somehow shameful to be a water hog. If you can pay for it, he argues, you should get your water.People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” Yuhas fumed recently on social media. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live,” he added in an interview. “And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”
Here is a guided tour of the Billionaire doomsday bunkers that they'll flee to if the world ends taxes go up. How are the rich not Bond villains?
Obama's pick to run the SEC specializes in helping corporations hide taxable expenses. Fox meet hen house.
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