This Is What You Get For A College Education
WOW!!!! Â This “student” certainly has more balls than brains. Â I’m going out on a limb and guessing she’s NOT a math major…probably Econ!
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How To Get A Real Education
One great thing about reading is articles or books often lead to other interesting articles or books. I recently read $100 Startup which mentioned a Wall Street Journal article by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. As a nearly lifetime cubicle dweller Adams is beloved by me. The following is a link to the original article and a few excerpts that hopefully will make you want to read the article yourself.
Indefensible (in·de·fen(t)-sə-bəl )
The dictionary defines indefensible as:
1. Incapable of being maintained as right or valid
2. Incapable of being justified or excused .
Synonyms: inexcusable, inexpiable, insupportable, unforgivable, unjustifiable, unpardonable, unwarrantable
This is where I usually start the examples and I will soon. The muse for this post was a commercial shown on Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren’s show last night. The commercial was from a group opposed to Stand Your Ground Laws throughout the United States. The images and sound in the commercial exploit the Zimmerman/Martin killing in Florida. I began to think of the number of issues that the left/progressives/liberals/Democrats oppose that make the most sense to the rest of us. Here we go!
America The Beautiful
“I would like to see scientists and engineers get much more involved in the political process, bringing their no-nonsense common sense and logic to the table.”
Public (restroom) Education
Underlying Social Contract
“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
A Liberal Walks Into A Bar…
…And lowers it!
Lowering the bar gets A+ at city schools
Demonstrating the importance of a good education the City of Pittsburgh Public School Board decided that grades were so important that they would accept nothing less than a grade point average of 1.5 for any student wishing to participate in sports or other extracurricular activities (That’s D+ for those of you who grew up when I did). We cannot have any football players ineligible because of low grades. The “lowering the bar” part is because prior to this the bar was a full “C” or 2.0 grade point average. That requirement must have decimated the ranks of the chess club and the forensics team. Lest your heart (and mind) be too troubled by the lower standards any “students who are at a 1.5-1.99 GPA must take part in a probationary program aimed at getting them to a 2.0. If they haven’t achieved this in two semesters, they would be ineligible for activities including sports, band and club activities” unless there is a chance that a city football team can capture a state championship. We wouldn’t want to deprive any kids of that honor.
News Briefs – Volume XXVIII
News briefs are a collection of interesting news stories…
Brief 1: Call out the “gender pedagogues†as the heading of this post News “Briefs†may not be gender neutral. Actually the gender pedagogues were hired by the Edalia preschool in Stockholm Sweden “to help staff identify language and behavior that risk reinforcing stereotypes†so that boys are no longer boys and girls are no longer girls…they are all referred to as “friends.†How cute! And when visitors come they don’t refer to “him†or “her†they call them “he
It’ll Help Seniors
There once was a story about a Gov. named Ed, poor Philadelphia man, mostly kept his state in red, then one day he was spendin’ out his a#%, and out from the ground game a hissin gas…Marcellus that is, natural gas, Pennsylvania cash…
If it helps that introduction sort of goes with the Beverly Hillbillies theme song [a show on TV Land for those of you under forty].Â
C + P = PC
This is a rather simple equation that should be used whenever a group suggests that something won’t have an impact on consumers or expresses a desire to tax (or charge fees) for some industry or demonize profits from some large industry.
C = Cost to produce something
P = Profit needed by company to make it worth the risk to produce something
PC = Price to consumer
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