Kevin Drum quotes Ross Douthat, who thinks he sees a grand strategy at work in the Obama administration's spending: What you see in his budgeting proposals, I think, is the liberal equivalent of the conservative attempt to "starve the beast." In both the Reagan and Bush eras, Republicans passed tax ...

Can you imagine telling your boss that you deserve a raise because you come to work on time every day? Or that she shouldn’t fire you for poor performance because you tried really, really hard? Last week on Leadership’s Future a young man named Andrew started a conversation. During it he...

Glenn Reynolds, the Instadope, defends the paltry turn out at their anti-economic sense anti-stimulus protests by saying… But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out, than when 20,000 of the usual suspects organized by ACORN or ANSWER march with prep...

If you feel gypped when your papers get anything less than an A, you’re not going to like an article in this week’s New York Times . We’ve heard that Gen Yers feel entitled to top-notch lives: high-paying jobs, fairy tale love stories, fame. Apparently, our entitlement extends to t...

The comments on Farley’s post about grade inflation and student effort had convinced me not to read the article that inspired them.  Then Shahar excerpted a different part of the article and I changed my mind: A recent study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that a thi...

Here’s something that I will do my damnedest to teach my child: Just because you worked hard doesn’t mean you worked well. In line with Dean Hogge’s observation are Professor Greenberger’s test results. Nearly two-thirds of the students surveyed said that if they explained to a profe...

Sarah, a commenter on a CNN.com news article, had this to say about Jack Cafferty's criticism of the 'Stimulus Bill' being signed today by Pres. Obama: "This kind of negativity is the last thing this country needs. If you don't have something positively constructive to say wouldn't it be best to say...

I live under The Nittany Turkey’s sofa, and I watch his big screen TV, when I’m not eating the crumbs generated by his football parties. Just like the rest of you, I have lots of opinions. I have kept my opinions inside for a while because I have been well fed—for a mouse, not unli...

One of the pirates who runs the (admittedly essential) leak blog Bolachas Grátis called it quits yesterday, and his middle-fingers-ablaze response as he angrily stomped from the office was actually one of the best statements on the Internet "economy" ever. Dear bolachas users, this was the last one...

I think one of the most overlooked characteristic of abusers seem to be the pattern of behavior they portray. I’m not sure if that is due to the spouse’s reactions to their behavior, or if people just genuinely don’t wish to see it. It is a huge source of frustration to me. Since every person ...