Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Charleston Daily Mail, via Surber.
The University of Charleston will slash tuition rates by 22 percent next year in an effort to bolster enrollment.
The tuition decrease is one of several changes that UC President Ed Welch and a committee of stakeholders at the private school have been considering.
In an economic climate that caused public colleges and universities across the state to increase tuition last summer, Welch said he realized that the move to decrease UC’s $25,000 yearly tuition to $19,500 was a bold move.
“It’s a gutsy thing to do, but we know it’s the right thing to do,” Welch said.
While incoming freshmen will pay no more than $19,500 per year, current students still will be charged the $25,000 rate, but with a guaranteed $6,000 in financial aid to lower their cost.
Surber adds:
It may be a local issue. West Virginia’s population flatlined 30 years ago and remains level only because longevity continues to rise. This is a state of old people and the pool of local college material is shrinking.
But I am hoping that it is a sign that colleges nationally will at least halt their rise in tuition. A few brave men question the value of some degrees. Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott said: “You know, we don’t need a lot more anthropologists in the state. It’s a great degree if people want to get it, but we don’t need them here.”
He later caught flak for it, but he stood by his guns:
Q: Have you heard from any angry anthropologist?
A: Well one of the funniest things, my second daughter, my younger daughter, she’s 26, called me the next day and she said, ‘dad, do you realize that because I got an anthropology undergraduate degree, I was one of the top stories on yahoo?’ She was not very thankful for that.
But I said, well Jordan, what was it like? Did you get a job? ‘Well, no.’
So she got a masters in education after that, and now she’s back getting a masters in business.
Hey, UC has an MBA program. Just saying.
If this is the pop, Prof. Reynolds deserves the credit for endlessly repeatedly reciting Stein rule: Whatever cannot continue forever, won’t.
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Yeah, and next cycle around Masters degrees in education and business will be worthless as toilet paper, and people will still be laughing at her as “the fool with the useless degree.”
- rhjunior | 11/05/2011 @ 23:00