I was busy over the holidays getting classes ready for the spring semester. I revised my notes, rewrote exams and prepared the syllabi. After I found out that the textbook cost 125 dollars, I tracked down each reading on the internet and created a virtual…
Photo credit: Gabriela Camerotti Displaced Aggression League Report — Week 13 TEAM OWNER SECRETS: Whose 7th grade obsession with serial killers resulted in a trip to the Guidance Counselor’s office after turning in a Language Arts project featuring a collection of meticulously-crafted dioramas with titles such…
It’s easy to pay lip service to education. Show me a politician who doesn’t have an education plank in the old platform and I will show you genuine amazement. Education is a significant slice of the pie chart. That would be the pie of votes,…
So, the Army Corps of Engineers was in charge of building a hurricane protection system around New Orleans, as ordered by Congress in response to Hurricane Betsy. There are a lot of interlocking political entities–levee boards, New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB), etc.–
Editor’s note: Part I/Part II
Photo credit: « м Ħ ж » ONE – Introduction I was a university student in Business Management when I first heard the term Eighty-Twenty Principle. It was applied quite simply to the balance between inventory and profitability. In essence, it said that eighty percent…
We remember privacy.
Photo credit: Sophia Louise ONE – Introduction David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, said in an interview with Bob Edwards that America is a “prisoner of short-term gain.” I thought this a most elegant summation of this country’s evolution into the ethical swamp…
Photo credit: get directly down Initial Disclosures: The author hiding (not very carefully or thoroughly) behind the pseudonym above is an attorney, albeit a non-practicing one. Said author also is the editor of a commercial periodical about privacy law published by a company that…
Some of my friends and family members think that it must be very hard to be an American-raised woman living in a developing country. They are right, but often for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a partial list of the things that they seem to…
After this experience, I have to say that I am glad not to be on the market these days. When I was on the other side of the table, I wondered if the committee called candidates just to laugh at our desperation. I’ve since lost count of how many jobs I applied for, but I do recall the recurring question that often comes to me in dreams: “Why would you like to work at our university?” The obvious answer was “because I need a job!”
Photo Credit: Joe Shlabotnik In HBO’s Girls Hannah Horvath, a precocious Oberlin grad moves to The Big Apple, where she interns at a publishing house for two years–entirely on her parents’ dime. A reliable foundation for a privileged American success story? One would hope. But…
Anecdotal evidence is just that: anecdotal. One situation doesn’t prove anything one way or another, and in fact can be misleading in the larger context. The one person that dies from The New [Almost] Perfect Drug does not accurately represent the ten thousand that were…