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Archive for 2013
February 25, 2013
NO POLITICIANS WERE HARMED IN THE COURSE OF THIS RESEARCH: Study of remoras may lead to new adhesives.
POLITICO PROFILES TENNESSEE’S GOVERNOR BILL HASLAM: The GOP star you’ve never heard of.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Jay Carney Struggles To Deny $500,000 OFA Donation Gets You Access To The President. Video at the link.
AT AMAZON, coupons galore in Home Improvement.
ED DRISCOLL: The Raj Koothrappali Approach to Constitutional Law.
LAW SCHOOL RANKINGS based on number of graduates in BigLaw jobs.
EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE NOW: We didn’t just evolve from apes, but from drunk apes. “The boozing gene can be traced back 10million years to the common ancestor humans share with chimpanzees and gorillas, new research claims. It is believed these ancient forebears were the first to pick up fruits fermenting on the ground after they developed a lifestyle away from the trees. Individuals able to stomach the boozy fruit would have survived better in this new environment than those who could not, programming the ability into their descendants’ genetic codes.”
WHAT CAN I SAY, IT’S A CURSE: You Can Be Too Beautiful.
CAN’T EGYPT GET BACK TO ITS ROOTS? He gave his life for tourism. That’s what can save them now!
ANDREW KLAVAN’S If We Survive gets a nice review in School Library Journal.
VIDEO: Is America Becoming Europe?
THE HORRORS OF THE “Quarter-Life Crisis.”
ANN ALTHOUSE: “Why were military personnel used as props for an entertainment industry awards show?”
And isn’t it interesting that Obama, who let people die in an Islamist takeover in Benghazi, had his wife present an award for a movie about rescuing people from an Islamist takeover in Iran.
UPSIDE: THERE GOES THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. DOWNSIDE: THAT BORDER FENCE WILL SOON BE USED TO KEEP YOU FROM LEAVING. Obama’s sour economy prompts would-be immigrants to drop their dream. “After 49 months of the Obama administration, a new poll out this morning reveals that the same percentage of Americans would like to move to another country as, say, Mexicans would like to move to the United States. Gee, maybe that self-deportation idea of Mitt Romney, the son of a Mexican immigrant, wasn’t so far-fetched after all.”
CONN CARROLL: What Happened To The Golden State? “More Americans now emigrate from California to other states than immigrate from other states to California. This exodus has cost California more than 1.5 million residents since 2000. And the reason is simple — the jobs are fleeing first.” Also, Democrats have taken over. But I repeat myself.
ROBERT CHESNEY, JACK GOLDSMITH, MATTHEW WAXMAN, AND BENJAMIN WITTES: Is The “War On Terror” Lawful? At least until 2016.
IN THE MAIL: From Bradlee Frazer, The Cure: A Thriller.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: High Debt and Falling Demand Trap New Vets.
At the age of 30, she still has the sign, which is framed on her desk at the Caring Hearts Animal Clinic in Gilbert, Ariz., where she works as a vet. She also has $312,000 in student loans, courtesy of Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Or rather, $312,000 was what she owed the last time she could bring herself to log into the Sallie Mae account that tracks the ever-growing balance.
“It makes me sick, watching it increase,” she says. “There’s also the stress of how am I going to save for retirement when I have this bear to pay off.”
They don’t teach much at veterinary school about bears, particularly the figurative kind, although debt as large and scary as any grizzly shadows most vet school grads, usually for decades. Nor is there much in the curriculum about the prospects for graduates or the current state of the profession. Neither, say many professors and doctors, looks very promising. The problem is a boom in supply (that is, vets) and a decline in demand (namely, veterinary services). Class sizes have been rising at nearly every school, in some cases by as much as 20 percent in recent years. And the cost of vet school has far outpaced the rate of inflation. It has risen to a median of $63,000 a year for out-of-state tuition, fees and living expenses, according to the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, up 35 percent in the last decade.
This would seem less alarming if vets made more money. But starting salaries have sunk by about 13 percent during the same 10-year period, in inflation-adjusted terms, to $45,575 a year, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Before you borrow money for school, do some reading.
THIS MUST BE MORE OF THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WE WERE PROMISED: John Kerry has suffered his first gaffe as the new US secretary of state, inventing the nation of ‘Kyrzakhstan.’ They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney, the British would be mocking our diplomatic ineptitude. And they were right!
THE BROWSER UPGRADE I’D LIKE TO SEE: One where the tab that’s the source of the autoplay audio flashes or something so I know which one to shut down. (Bumped, in the hope that someone will notice.)