Pablo via Jeff on cheap broadband for the poor.
Is there any point in having a job anymore?
Or if you prefer the Obama quote:
“Securing America’s competitiveness in a global economy means making sure that every American has access to high-speed broadband Internet and is able to take advantage of it,” President Barack Obama said in a statement supporting the initiative.
Warren Meyer has a good piece in Forbes about the misallocation of resources ala high education.
The signals we send to kids making their higher education plans have disconnected them from reality in a number of fundamental ways, causing them to make bad decisions for themselves and the broader economy………….Go ask an Ivy League college about what I have written and they will give you a disdainful “What do you think we are, a grubby trade school” look and argue that they are creating great human beings who are better prepared for society.
Are they? Perhaps in some ways, but I am not sure their graduates are going to be very grounded in reality. After all, how could any group that is at all in touch with the realities of the modern economy be doubling the number of journalists they produce while actually reducing the number of computer science grads? ………….
Yes, we will have to bail out some student loans, and it will likely cost us tens of billions of dollars. But that cost will be trivial compared to the toll that thirty years of mis-directed education will take on the economy.
Connect that to the occupy movements and their idiocy that is far from grounded in reality and then connect it all to the rioters at Penn State rioting over the firing of a man who did not report a child molester. (at the least)
Obviously, the real horror here is in the alleged criminal conduct. But there’s a larger point to be made here. People keep saying the cover-up proves the corruption of college football. Maybe so.
But what about the riots? These aren’t simply a product of football culture, they’re a product of a campus culture that teaches students they have an absolute right to whatever their hearts desire, starting with a fun-filled college experience and, afterwards, a rewarding career.
Imbued with a sense of victimhood, entitlement and cultivated grievance that can only be taught, their preferred response to inconvenience is a temper tantrum.
It isn’t pretty out there.
The view from 10,000 feet of the Cain accusers. Can you say Chicago? Hmmmmmmmmm.
It’s worth a full read.
ht John Galt
Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country — Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. — but never in Chicago.
So it’s curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago:………….The Daley-controlled IRA works hand in glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain’s short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he’s alleged to have been a sexual predator………………..The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. (Large clip taken from Ace of Spades - he has more, so click through.)
I oppose this with all the bitterness in my black heart.
Fend for yourselves, assholes. You want to run an advertising campaign? God love ya. Do it with your own damn money.
No. A thousand times No. It is a time for a serious rollback of Uncle Sugar, not an expansion of Uncle Sugar into more and varied Venture Socialism opportunities.
I love fresh Christmas trees.
That’s not the point.
It is not the federal government’s job to now add to its list of responsibilities (and powers) taxing citizens to encourage them to buy the thing they already bought. It is not their job to tell people that fresh trees are better than artificial ones.
Everyone goes to Washington with their hands out.
It is the duty of Washington to begin telling people:
This is America. People work for a living here. The Free Money Shop is closed due to their being too much interest in it.
David Brooks: Let’s be honest, the Constitution is silly, what with the idea about citizen legislators. We need a professional governing class. With nicely creased slacks.
David, I am sorry to inform you that Americans have no interest in being ruled by our betters. We just don’t believe they are better, and have little evidence for it since after the founders.
There are a lot of idiots out there, but being a part of a professional governing class does not make you not an idiot.
These are always fun for us competitive types who like to show how smart we are.
Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)
Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.
I missed 2 for 93.94%. You can do better. One I misread and the other should have been known.
I suppose I ought to weigh in on the Herman Cain affair before he gives his press conference.
Mr. Cain is not good at politics. And he’s appears more and more unaware of certain things that even I know about the world. I still like him. Though I am leaning towards VP vs President for him.
It appears to me that when he acts on his instincts he does well. When he acts like he is trying to do what others have told him to do or say he messes up.
So on the Cain harassment accusations, this is my take. Each of his accusers are from the early 90s (or earlier?) If they are all accurate (and I’m not saying they are) but if they are accurate, it seems he learned from the experiences and quit harassing women. In all instances, when they said “no”, they claim he stopped.
If it’s true, I don’t like the allegations, but if I were to dismiss every man who sexually harassed me in my life, I would have missed out on some very good friends. Men who were very smart and very capable of leading. Should they be President…..maybe not, but if all the harassment is from another age, then maybe so.
If all the accusations are true and Cain is the GOP nominee, I will send money, have bumper stickers, and vote for him without hesitation vs the guy currently in office.
So in other words, I’m still holding out to see how he handles things. So far I’m not impressed, but I am also not dismissing him outright.
There you have it….the official nonopinion opinion here at I think.
UPDATE: Protein Wisdom has a very good rundown of the accusers. I am still watching Cain for signs of interest in Foreign Policy, but I like him and I’ve decided to believe him. (see 3rd comment below)
It’s nice to see this covered elsewhere besides here at I think…. [ht Maggie's Farm]
1) we have a big income divide
2) we have a big age divide as boomers age
3) riches follow age
This was bound to happen and it affects you not at all.
Lack of jobs affects you.
The fact that those people over there are richer? Who cares?
Eric Holder is going to ask for stronger gun laws today.
I couldn’t believe it when I first read the idea that Fast and Furious was really all about tightening domestic gun laws by this administration. The longer this has gone on, the more I believed and now…..with very little journalistic oversite Holder is seriously going to do it.
Allahpundit gets the QOTD though in talking about the 2 positives this may hold. 1) it will call attention to Fast and Furious the most outrageous story in the news today and:
Two: The more gun owners perk up about Holder’s testimony, the more public interest there’s bound to be in Fast & Furious. And hey — there actually is room for a smart new gun law here if Congress is willing to take it up. I call it the “DOJ Shouldn’t Walk Guns to Psychotic Mexican Drug Cartels Act of 2011.” The text reads, in full, “The DOJ shouldn’t walk guns to psychotic Mexican drug cartels.”
Apparently when it’s the “left” doing it, it’s ok.
More people may have to move. The protest organizers plan to put up seven more large tents, [other than the female only tents] including ones for gay and transgender people, co-ed tents and a medical tent.
Not only is the segregation of people ok but it becomes a woman’s fault when she is sexually assaulted. How? Because she is there.
So instead of fixing the problem and prosecuting the male offender, the answer is to segregate the females into their own safety zone. You know – it’s her fault because she was walking down that dark street all alone.
Most protesters have not been reporting all the incidents to police — instead preferring to settle things on their own.
The tent and its all-female security detail is the latest crime-fighting measure, and it is already garnering much interest.
Fight crime! Avoid people and don’t own anything!
John Kranz notes this bit in the article…..Kelo is alive and well at OWS.
One woman was also against the structure, saying the protesters who put it up took her tent down without notice to make room.
“I’m pissed! I pretty much just got evicted,” fumed Angelina Isfreed, 32, after returning to find her tent taken down. “I won’t be staying there.”
Perhaps colleges and universities should start a new major. “Ironies: the delightful and insightful”
Maybe if taught to them by an official professor they could get a clue.
UPDATE:
it only gets funnier. Ed Morrissey has a run down that busted my gut.
