When You Spend the King’s Gold…
…this happens: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that military recruiters must have the same kind of access as other employers coming onto campus to give out information and conduct job...
View ArticleBroken Promises
John Ruberry, the Marathon Pundit, just did some actual reporting about the veterans’ scholarship scandle at the University of Illinois. This didn’t sound like much of a story when I first heard about...
View ArticleYou Can’t Touch That
Just when I think the zero tolerance rules in public schools can’t get any more idiotic, this story hits the net: Fairfax County middle school student Hal Beaulieu hopped up from his lunch table one...
View ArticleTeaching Hard Lessons to School Children and Others
By now you may have heard (via Balko, Simple Justice, Moby Kip, or new blawger Bobby Frederick) about the brilliant idea some folks in El Camino California came up with to teach students the importance...
View ArticleWhat Can You Expect to Learn In School?
The latest micro-storm to hit the legal blogosphere started simply enough with Gideon’s nearly harmless post on “10 things I didn’t learn in law school.” I thought the worst item was #5: That law...
View Article5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
Found this posted in a comment from Jonathan C Hansen over at Simple Justice and I think it makes a lot of sense. Of course, I don’t have children, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
View ArticleIs an Earth-Centered Solar System a Silly Idea?
The science blogging community has been having a good laugh over the past few days about a “scientific” conference being held in South Bend Indiana (near Notre Dame!) on how Galileo was wrong about the...
View ArticleAmateur Historians
I really enjoy studying history. I’ve moved around time and the globe delving deeper into Mycenaean influences beyond Greece and studying the nuances of one particular commander who has been maligned...
View ArticleScholarship for a Nerd
Christie Wilcox writes one of my favorite blogs, Observations of a Nerd, and is hoping to win a $10,000 scholarship for her graduate studies. She’s an excellent blogger and scientist. Over the past...
View ArticleMount What?
Over at Ethics Alarms, Jack Marshall writes: Most of all, I do not understand the persistence of the myth that a college education can, does, or should qualify a graduate for good job, when it appears...
View ArticleDon’t Disinvite, Just Don’t Invite
It’s graduation season again, which means it’s time for the usual round of news stories about controversial graduation speakers and the attempts by protestors to get them disinvited. For example, after...
View ArticleOf Experts and Explainers
The Volokh Conspiracy blog has finally made the move behind the Washington Post paywall, and that led to an interesting comment on Twitter by conspirator Orin Kerr about the change in audience from...
View ArticleWhat To Learn About Next?
I’m planning to do some serious heavy reading, but I’m torn between several choices of what to study next. After reading Radley Balko’s article using a police shooting video to illustrate the faulty...
View ArticleSay No To (Too Much) Shakespeare
In the Washington Post, high school English teacher Dana Dusbiber explains why she doesn’t want to teach Shakespeare any more: I am not supposed to dislike Shakespeare. But I do. And not only do I...
View ArticleQuestionable Free Speech at Drexel University
Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher is now gone from his position at Drexel University. A year ago, I blogged a brief contingent defense of his controversial “white genocide” tweet....
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