Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

The Mountain of Bad News Grows

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Phil

It is not enough that the majority of the government employee’s pension funds are showing too little funds to cover their current or quickly upcoming expenses, but now we have this: University endowments and teachers’ pension funds are among big … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day: Castaneda

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

From Ben Domenech’s Transom today, to which you should be subscribing: …in [Mexican history] there was the government and the individual, with no civil society in between. This creates and fuels a patronage society, with the attendant social ills of … Continue reading →

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Institutionalized Racism Exists

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Phil

In the Seattle School District The superintendent of Seattle Public Schools announced Friday that a recently suspended unit in a humanities class at The Center School that explored issues of race and privilege will be allowed to resume, with restrictions. … Continue reading →

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Living in a SF Novel

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

Some days it feels like we’re living through one of those hard SF thrillers that just piles on the big ideas, each of which would deserve a novel of its own. Each link below is to something that’s actually happening … Continue reading →

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The Biblical Flood, Explained

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

Asteroid. Indian Ocean. 600-foot tsunamis. Hand of God, indeed. …What’s more, the Gulf of Carpentaria object was a skipping stone compared with an object that Abbott thinks whammed into the Indian Ocean near Madagascar some 4,800 years ago, or about … Continue reading →

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Please tell me he is joking

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Phil

Wait. Don’t. It would be better for me if he is not joking. I have a solution for that. I’ve come across this demented idea before, on the college campus. Essentially, the thought process goes that every generation should have … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal…Not

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

Eugene Volokh notes that Dean Chemerinsky’s proposal to make school funding equal by eliminating all private schooling options is one with implications: A clearer example of how an excessive focus on equality undermines liberty is hard to find…. [Chemerinsky's] argument … Continue reading →

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Driverless Cars and Systemic Vulnerabilities

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Davidwhitewolf

Food for thought. Parallels with the vulnerabilities of systemic firearms regulation I will leave as an exercise for the reader.

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“We Didn’t Expect This Amount of Resistance”

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Davidwhitewolf

I was listening in to a legal webinar the other day on some of the lovely things we can expect from Obamacare. One of the speakers was Christopher E. Condeluci, former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee and one … Continue reading →

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Nifty Table

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Davidwhitewolf

I’ve been fascinated by the .284 Winchester for the last several days, and scored a bonus when I stumbled across Wikipedia’s very useful entry on cartridges using 7mm-caliber bullets. The info is well-presented and sortable, and includes the “.30″-calibers like … Continue reading →

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