Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution points to a post by The Angry Professor about a new budgetary system at LSU.
In essence the professor seems to be angry that departments are forced into competition with each other for students and therefore funding under the new scheme. His main complaint seems to be this:
The marginal departments, […]
Via TheBlogfather comes news about 435 Blogs in 435 Districts. Now, I’m a big fan of the Porkbuster’s project, although I do think it is doomed to the sort of failure and mainstream irrelevance that one can ususally only count on from the leftosphere. That said, I think this is a worthwhile endevour.
I […]
I’ve been thinking a lot the past few weeks about College. Not so much the drunken memories of bad ideas from yesteryear, but rather about the sort of violence problems inherent in the system. There’s a lot sort of wrong with higher education in this country, but having a rather small sample I […]
Recent topics over at Hit & Run have led me to do a little bit of investigation into the exact nature of High Fructose Corn Syrup. One of the trolls commenters over there, a “Dave W” is absolutely convinced, beyond all evidence, that High Fructose Corn Syrup used to sweeten things is causing some […]
Not in the political sense, mind you, jumped up Christ on toast no, but in the sense of I am for progress. This thread at JMPP about flouridated drinking water got me going again, and caused me to pen what I think are two of the most vitriolic comments I’ve ever written, this […]
I got in a really, really silly argument with my lovely girlfriend a number of weeks ago…an argument about jam.
You see, I have a proclivity for Smucker’s Black Raspberry Jam which, for some reason or another, Amanda insists is not actually jam. In her world, apparently, the fruit product in question must contain seeds […]
Apparently a woman has been convicted for a non-crime.
Let me get this straight: We’ve a global “War on Terror” going on, recent bombings in London, and Bali previous to that, as well as Spain, this is largely a war with Islamic Jihadists, and the TSA is wasting time patting down 62-year-old grandmothers from Wisconsin?
I’d be […]
In writing this post over at the Commentator site earlier today, I got to thinking about how similar the ADHD diagnosis is to what we used to call “childhood”. And, frankly, I’m a little disturbed by it.
Now, this should be construed as some rant against mental health professionals or the like; I was helped […]
Don Boudreaux has the right idea about schools over at Cafe Hayek, unfortunately we’ll never get the government out of schools. Why? Because as long as there are elected officials, “support” for education will be the same thing as “dollars of government money thrown” at education. Given that goverschooling is here to […]
1) An extra 150-200 square feet of living space (presuming I still rented).*
2) Full comprehensive and collision insurance with a $500 deductible for my car.*
3) Saving more for a new car.*
4) This.
5) Dropping $1,000 into the S&P 500 and just leaving it there until I retire. $1,000 placed in 1925 would’ve had a […]
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