I’M PARTICULARLY — IF NOT UNIQUELY — QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT THIS:  Minnesota, Nice.

I’ve been here for forty years — fortieth anniversary coming up — and all the time I’ve been here, wanting to assimilate was treated as a weird and possibly dangerous behavior.

#JOURNALISM:

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

YES: Americans are rightly waking up — much of higher education is now a scam.

A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.”

That’s up markedly from 2013, when a majority took the opposite view, as 53% called a degree “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime.”

That was the case for generations of Americans, who saw college as a key step to higher-paying jobs and a better life: “Upwardly mobile” was almost entirely synonymous with “college-educated.”

Previously: America’s New Millionaire Class: Plumbers and HVAC Entrepreneurs.

CHRISTIAN COMPUTER PROF AT MIT? No, that can’t possibly be true … can it? I mean the founder of MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Research Group is a follower of Jesus Christ? Well, check it out for yourself as she explains the how and why and when on HillFaith. Something is up in America, folks.

HOW COULD A JUDICIARY WITH MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES OF PUBLIC TRUST BEHIND IT EVER THROW ALL THAT AWAY? LIKE THIS:

THIS IS A FUN ONE TO WATCH, AND EVEN MORE FUN IF I CAN FIND THE TIME TO FINISH THE WHOLE THING: Ian McCollum And Brandon Herrera Go Deep Gun Geeking. “In a self-described “Most Autistic Episode Ever,” Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons joins Brandon Herrera, Cody Garrett (AKA Donut Operator) and Eli Cuevas (AKA Eli Doubletap) on their Unsubscribe podcast.”