Record low marriage rates are going to get a lot lower
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 09/07/2021 - 12:52pmAlmost no one is getting married anymore. Well, not no one (which I will examine more below), but it's too low.
education
Sanders/Buttigieg And Some Free Education
Submitted by ban nock on Sat, 11/30/2019 - 10:27pmHair splitting over hypothetical programs to assist people in affording university seemed to be the outrage d'jour online this week, or at least the parts of online I read. I was reminded of Clinton/Obama in 08 and the competing health care which had little resemblance to what came out the other end of the sausage machine.
One thing in the discussions did pique my interest however. Buttigieg's proposal had suggested a not free portion to begin at household income of six figures.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 10/20/2019 - 8:19am
Fertile Soils and Fertile Minds
The YouTube algorithm has delivered some interesting comments/statements by teachers on my feed. I want to share a few of those. I'm so glad my teaching career was in a smaller rural school with quite a different environment. At any rate those interviews make it obvious why we don't have a thinking, civil population. My original notion for today's column was to focus on soil fertility. This is really the time of year to address that, so when its time for spring planting the soil is already prepared. Then I started putting these two concepts together in my mind...we can use agricultural practices to make soil fertile and we can use educational techniques to create healthy fertile minds capable of independent thought. Both touch the future in profound ways.
A quiz for the curious
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 2:50pmPop quiz for the curious
Okay here is the pop quiz.
The masses standing by and doing nothing
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 04/14/2019 - 1:10pmYeah, that's the ticket.
Well here's the show the ticket got us into. Here's Ian Welsh:
Key passage:
Resilience Discussion: "The Creativity Crisis"
Submitted by mhagle on Tue, 09/25/2018 - 9:52am
If TwitFaceGoog (TFG) worked for Democracy...
Submitted by jim p on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 10:20pmthey'd undertake a massive campaign to educate users on how to tell the difference between claims and facts. They'd grace the People with the reasoning abilities to know when something is proven, disproven, or needs more information before deciding its value.
Teach people how rhetorical tricks and manipulative tactics are used on them. Teach people how trolls operate. How to check the sourcing, and whether there is more than one source.
What is a republic? Foreword # 4: The crucial role of science
Submitted by Tony Wikrent on Sat, 12/23/2017 - 2:19pmThis was first posted July 31, 2014 at Real Economics as The Higgs boson and the purpose of a republic.
Full-bore stupid
Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 1:54pmTwo transgender, non-binary students in South Glenn Falls, NY were kicked off a school bus on Wednesday, just because they wanted to sit on the "boys side of the bus."
WTF???? Yes, You read that correctly...as did I.
Transgender in a women's college
Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 09/14/2017 - 2:00pmNinotska Love is an entering freshman at Wellesley. The 28-year-old native of Ecuador is a transgender woman who would not have been allowed to attend that school last year. Love fled to the U.S. in 2009 after being kidnapped and threatened because of her gender identity.
