Unqualified Offerings

More higher-education links in the wake of the other day’s piece:
* Matt Y. tips me to a 2008 Washington Monthly article by Kevin Carey that argues that the primary culprit in outsized university costs is a status race, where higher tuition connotes institutional prestige. The article is interesting on how schools have used technology [...]

By Thoreau
Another post for “obvious” tags.  I am not a big fan of my current apartment, so I’m looking around.  I saw a bunch of apartments that looked too cheap to be true.  But, since I have way more cell phone minutes than I use, I figured no harm in calling.  So I called, and [...]

By Thoreau
curv3ball says it better than I can in regard to Arizona.
Radley says it pretty well too.
I would say more, but I have to go find a Mother’s Day gift for my grandmother, who moved here from Canada without asking anybody’s permission.  She’s married to a swarthy Eyetalian who was born here, but his parents [...]

By Thoreau
Would it kill you to read my paper?  I clearly explained in it that if you are going to do a certain thing, your speed and accuracy are limited by certain key factors that I identify, and that you need to correct for.  These are fundamental statistical limits.  I’m not asking you to cite [...]

By Thoreau
Look, for all I know Bryan Caplan would lay aside all his “I will call him Mini Me” proclivities and just be an awesome father to his clone.  However, if he wants a true copy of himself, sharing every single one of the genes responsible for his health and development, the baby will have [...]

I was never a Catholic. Nor was I ever a neoconservative. Ever! Back in the late eighties and mid-1990s, I read pretty much every issue of The New Criterion, Commentary and The American Scholar, but a neoconservative? Pshaw! But I certainly knew that Sinead O’Connor was a leftist, anti-American, freakazoid loon what with her ripping [...]

By Thoreau
Yesterday I drank a lot more coffee than usual, and wound up feeling pretty weird.  My heart pounded, I couldn’t focus, it was bad.  I decided that I should probably taper down from my regular twice-a-day habit, to eventually only drinking coffee when I am working later than usual (or earlier than usual).  So [...]

Matt Y. takes up the issue of rising college tuition, which has outpaced the general inflation rate over the last 18 years, and wonders what can be done about it. It’s a good question. A theory I haven’t seen anyone consider: universities are just trying to capture as much of the college-degree wage premium for [...]

Jason Kuznicki offers Bryan Caplan more free book publicity and contrarian validation, heading off at a different angle from the same “sublime bond” nonsense I covered the other day. In very brief, Jason rebuts Caplan’s understanding of the importance of genetic material.
I would add: If you’re the sort of genetic determinist who is convinced that [...]

Do you ever ask yourself, “Where has all the good Jack Chick femslash [PG] gone?” Of course you don’t. But by God sir or madam, now and then something that you never thought to want comes along, and it is good. “Whatever Happened to Elfstar,” by Russell Bailey: your key to quality literature.