I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to learn that the Department of (In)Justice shut down the attempt to look for the emails in West Virginia.
The New Crusades
…are as justified as the original ones were. This was inevitable, and it’s apparently the only solution to barbarity from another millennium, in the face of passivity by the rest of the world.
The Department Of Education’s Office Of Civil Rights
The Joy Of Coronary Arteries
The body is not that simple.
It sure would be nice if we’d do some actual science when it came to health care and nutrition.
Netanyahu
A subliminal reason that the White House has been freaking out about this is that the American people will once again see a strong, academically accomplished, articulate warrior and leader, and contrast him with Barack Obama.
[Update after the speech]
“Netanyahu is better in his second language than Obama is in his first.”
Yup.
Walker-Fiorina?
A Mini-Fusion Reactor
This would be a huge game changer, for earth and space, if it can really be done.
“Liberal” Academia
Kurt Schlichter has a modest proposal:
Understand that the purpose of modern American “education” is not to educate students. It is primarily to provide cushy, subsidized sinecures for liberal administrators and faculty while, secondarily, providing a forum to indoctrinate soft young minds in the liberal fetishes du jour. Actually educating students is hard, and a meaningful education is anathema to liberalism. In the liberals’ ideal world, the universities would simply fester with leftist nonsense and not even bother with trying to teach their charges anything at all. And today, it’s pretty close to being the liberals’ ideal world.
…As I discuss in my book Conservative Insurgency, and as others like Glenn Reynolds have observed, with modern academia we normal Americans are paying to support a suppurating abscess in our culture that, left untreated, will kill its host. We need to lance this boil and drain the leftist pus.
Except there’s nothing liberal about them.
[Update a few minutes later]
This is the kind of thing he’s talking about: Leftists outraged that a university won’t police the attire of students off campus.
As I said, there is nothing liberal about this. It’s totalitarian.
Site Redesign
You probably noticed a new look here. I just did a WordPress upgrade, and switched to the new standard theme Twenty Fifteen. Not sure I’ll stick with it (for one thing, it’s not clear how to get the column structure I want) but I’ll play with it for a while.
[Update a while later]
Well, it looks like you can have as many columns as you like, as long as it’s not more than two. Only one sidebar. Not sure whether to stick with this.
[Update a few more minutes later]
OK, looks like the only way to get multiple sidebars is to create a child theme with them. Not sure how much time I want to invest in writing PHP.
[Update a few minutes later]
Last time I tried TwentyFourteen, it was kind of a disaster, but I just got the latest version, and am trying that now. I’ll have to tinker with it, but it at least gives me two customizable sidebars. Definitely have to resize sidebars, and play with style sheet. Feedback appreciated.
The Value Of College Degrees
Anyone who talks about the ROI of a degree without talking about the type of degree, or the relative value of one school over another, is either profoundly ignorant, or fraudulent. The fact is that there are a lot of degrees for which one would have to be a fool to put themselves deep into undischargeable debt to obtain. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t understand that, and are the most likely to get those worthless degrees.