UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PROTEST TURNS VIOLENT: “A tuition protest at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee turned violent. . . . The protest was part of a national Day of Action, challenging lawmakers in each state to stop cutting funding from education.”

Two thoughts: (1) This is more violence than all the Tea Party protests put together, despite the media fearmongering; and (2) Running out of other people’s money stinks, doesn’t it?

UPDATE: Berkeley reader Konrad Miller writes:

Hey Prof Reynolds-

I’m a Chemical Engineering student at UC Berkeley.

Regarding Prof. Bainbridge’s comment on being more productive than just whining: on the same day all that people were marching for more free money from a bankrupt state and “eco-justice”, my peers and I were calculating the efficiency of adiabatic interstage cooling for a Thermodynamics Midterm. As Bill Whittle writes, there are 2 tribes here at Berkeley: people who have actual things to do, and people who just want to complain without, you know, doing things.

Doing things is eeeviilll.