Four myths (including the one that the war ended the Depression). Also, why Obama and the Democrats are so obsessed with the income inequality myth.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
A Shocking Development
An OWS protester discovers that his expensive degree in puppetry doesn’t really pay off.
Teaching Students How To Write
Some thoughts. I found this comment interesting, and it wouldn’t surprise me:
You guys have not read many manuscripts from academic writers, have you? As a long-time academic editor, I read hundreds–hundreds that were submitted for publication, no less.
Academics do not write well at all–most quite poorly. The three I knew who were truly gifted writers… to have lunch with them was to begin to study the wall for crack patterns, they were so introverted. Department chairs were absolutely incoherent, but there was substance there–they were simply quite used to having secretaries and copy editors do the hard work of making it readable for them. The legions of humanities and social science assistant and associate profs… one wanders across the tundra of their boggy prose delighted for even the tiniest patch of semi-solid jargon-free verbiage.
In my experience, good workman-like writing at any education level is quite rare.
I’ve often suspected that this is true of many “journalists” as well, and was one of the reasons that there was so much initial resistance to blogging — a lot of them really do need “layers of fact checkers and editors” to create their “product.”
That Was Then
So what are they, racists?
The Higher Education Bubble
When will it pop?
He makes a point that doesn’t get made enough — that what kind of degree you get matters, but a lot of these children (and particularly the ones who are shifting back and forth between occupying Wall Street and occupying their parents’ basements) don’t get that. Nor does the student loan program.
[Update a while later]
Tom Easton And Virginia Postrel
Congratulations on winning the Bastiat Prize.
My Influential Topics In Klout
West Coast
Liberty
Adolph Hitler
That is all.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, those aren’t the only three — they’re the top three. “Faa” comes in fourth. And “NASA” comes in tenth place.
Men’s Wearhouse
I wonder what this will do to their bottom line? Judging from comments, nothing good. I’m guessing most of their customers are the 53%. I know they’ve lost my business for good.
An Ineptocracy
A new word to describe where we’ve been headed, if we’re not already there.
[Update a few minutes later]
A beginning of a solution? Legislative perfection.
More Guns Found In Arizona
And the Pinal County Sheriff isn’t happy:
While Sheriff Babeu and his deputies are doing their best to fight these cartels with limited resources, the Obama Justice Department has been arming the enemy with weapons Babeu’s deputies don’t even have.
“Outrage and betrayal. This has never happened before in the history of our country. We may have given armaments and weapons to our allies who may have later become our enemy, but we’ve never given them directly to our enemy,” Babeu said when asked about his initial reaction to Operation Fast and Furious.
“These are the most violent criminals in North America and we facilitated and gave weapons, weapons that my deputies don’t even have, to these cartels,” he said. “It’s more than insane, it is horrific to think that our own government did this.”
Elections have consequences.