21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: ‘Weed’ Dating Is a Dirty New Way to Meet Someone.
Archive for 2012
July 17, 2012
FROM SELF-PUBLISHING TO BEST-SELLER. Though not a tremendously lucrative one, I imagine.
LAWS, LIKE TAXES, ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: TSA Fails to Comply With Year-Old ‘Nude’ Body-Scanner Court Order.
AT TUMBLR, You Didn’t Build That.
UPDATE: Romney Punches Back Twice As Hard. “President Obama attacks success and therefore under Obama we have less success, and I will change that. . . . I don’t think that anyone could have said what he said, who had actually started a business. . . . I find it extraordinary that a philosophy of that nature would be spoken by a President of the United States.”
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ANOTHER UPDATE: Seen on Facebook:
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Reasons To Date A Lawyer.
BILL WHITTLE: Firewall: That Looks Bad!
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More big universities going online with Coursera. “A dozen more universities have signed partnerships with Coursera, a company that provides hosting services for massively open online courses (MOOCs), the company announced today. Coursera’s new partners include the University of Virginia, whose highly publicized administrative ballyhoo last month made it the epicenter of the debate over how traditional universities should adapt to the rise of online education in general and MOOCs in particular. In addition to U.Va., Coursera will also be serving as a platform for open online courses from the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (in Switzerland), Georgia Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, and the Universities of California at San Francisco, Edinburgh (U.K.), Illinois, Toronto and Washington.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: CSU again considers executive pay hikes. “Trustees with California State University will consider Tuesday giving three university presidents pay raises from added money provided by campus foundations, increases that would push the trio’s earnings to above $300,000 each. The pay hikes would be the first under a policy approved earlier this year that shifts salary increases for new university presidents compared to their predecessors, at least until 2014, from state coffers to campus foundations. For new presidencies, like with these three, any total salary increase is capped at 10 percent compared to those previously serving in the post. At the same meeting, trustees also will discuss possible tuition increases and job cuts and other budget reductions that may result if the governor’s tax initiative is not successful on the November ballot. If the measure does fail, the 23-campus system would have $250 million less.”
BUT THEY’LL MAKE IT UP IN VOLUME: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car.
HOW TO REDUCE INEQUALITY: Get (And Stay) Married. Since it’s apparently okay to use government coercion to reduce inequality, does that mean we should be implementing policies that discourage single motherhood and divorce? You know, for the sake of “fairness?” I’m just asking. . . .
EXPLAINING Olympic Pistol Shooting.
ELECTRIC COWBOY: A Tesla Pickup Truck.
100 KINDLE BOOKS for $3.99 or less.
A VINCENT BLACK SHADOW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY? 67-Pound Carbon Fiber Electric Motorcycle Revealed In Norway.
MAURICE STUCKE: The Implications of Behavioral Antitrust.
RICHARD EPSTEIN on unions and free speech.
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: ABA to Toughen Bar Passage Accreditation Standard.
ELVIS VS. “JULIA:” A Lesson From The Liberal Arts.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
“SMART DIPLOMACY” UPDATE: Is The U.S. Already Bungling Burma?
A POSTER CONTEST: Barack Obama, The Great Demotivator.
JOEL KOTKIN: Are Millennials The Screwed Generation?
How has this generation been screwed? Let’s count the ways, starting with the economy. No generation has suffered more from the Great Recession than the young. Median net worth of people under 35, according to the U.S. Census, fell 37 percent between 2005 and 2010; those over 65 took only a 13 percent hit.
The wealth gap today between younger and older Americans now stands as the widest on record. The median net worth of households headed by someone 65 or older is $170,494, 42 percent higher than in 1984, while the median net worth for younger-age households is $3,662, down 68 percent from a quarter century ago, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.
The older generation, notes Pew, were “the beneficiaries of good timing” in everything from a strong economy to a long rise in housing prices. In contrast, quick prospects for improvement are dismal for the younger generation. . . .
Overall the young suffer stubbornly high unemployment rates—and an even higher incidence of underemployment. The unemployment rate for people between 18 and 29 is 12 percent in the U.S., nearly 50 percent above the national average. That’s a far cry from the fearsome 50 percent rate seen in Spain or Greece, or the 35 percent in Italy and 22 percent in France and the U.K., but well above the 8 percent rate in Germany.
Read the whole thing. And weep.
AT PENN STATE, “a culture of evasion.” “Campus sexual-harassment codes grow ever more draconian even as what passes for acceptable behavior behind the scenes grows worse and worse.”