Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2011
OK folks, here’s your chance to offer up some ideas. Suppose that we were to take the $20 billion that is currently used for direct farm subsidies each year and allocate it to some other domestic spending item. We’re not small government folks here, at least not for the next few minutes. What would you […]
Posted in Education on Aug 19th, 2011
Earlier I posted a chart about the GRE score distribution of people going to graduate school. This post tells a different story, but with similar underpinnings. In it, Mark Perry shows us that at the undergraduate level at Cornell University 100% of education courses have a median grade of an A or an A-. Don’t […]
Posted in Environment on Aug 19th, 2011
In recent years I have managed to hike in, camp in, and otherwise visit a good number of national parks. These include some of the most popular, such as Yellowstone, Acadia, Bryce, Zion, the Grand Canyon, and Delaware Water Gap and some of the less popular such as Capital Reef, Sequoia-King’s Canyon (it is pretty […]
