Dana Goldstein’s latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who are not going onto college has a full-time job is terrible. And there’s nothing wrong per se with the European-style vocational education she suggests. For […]
Month: June 2012
A lot of coverage of Wisconsin, as one would expect. A few notes on this. First, David Gergen, anti-union hack. Ezra Klein’s response was a bit frustrating. He discusses labor’s failure en
For some reason, Hustling Danny Murphy’s would-be transition to second base has generally gotten positive reviews. Last night’s ugliness may be a good time to note, however, that Murph
Ray Bradbury has passed away. In 1994, I walked right by him in a hotel in New Orleans without recognizing. By the time someone explained who he was, it was too late. In junior high and high school I worked my way through the entirety of the Oregon City Public Library’s Bradbury collection; Fahrenheit 451 […]
Commemoration of the War of Northern Aggression (Canadian Edition) continues apace: CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos
On June 6, 1943, nearly 30 leaders of the Packard Hate Strike in a United Auto Workers-organized plant in Detroit were suspended from their jobs. The culmination of a series of white supremacist wildc
Too close to call is a better sign than I expected. Though I imagine enough votes will come out of Waukesha County, 1948 LBJ victory-style, to push the election to Walker. ….Well, MSNBC has called it for Walker. Probably true. We’ll be parsing this one for awhile ….As I mentioned before, I am generally opposed […]
[One thing I’ve never seen explained is why, after what was actually a very promising start, the NBA didn’t draft any high school players for 20 years. The three players who went straight
Monday, June 4, 2012 A point about playoff scoring By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ESPN.com The games of the modern era are not usually high-scoring affairs, especially in the playoffs, and that has put the fa
I’ve just finished George Edwards’s Overreach. In essence, the book applies the lessons of On Deaf Ears and The Strategic Presidency to the Obama administration. If you’ve read the two earlier books you needn’t make it a high priority, but if you haven’t it’s as good an introduction to the work of the most important […]
A grad student didn’t see Obama at a barbecue hosted by Bill Ayers in 2005! The conclusion Breitbart’s minion Joel Pollak draws from this non-evidence? Whatever differences may have emerge
I think that this effectively sums up the emerging LGM position on the Bully Pulpit: