tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post8331606807034153087..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: We got problems. But is this the solution? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-8428090213182162112015-09-14T08:46:12.727-04:002015-09-14T08:46:12.727-04:00Assuming this is the same guy, (LinkedIn profile) ...Assuming this is the same guy, (LinkedIn profile) the last sentence is ironic:<br /><br />What I can promise all potential employers is explosive creativity unfettered by disciplinary strictures or self-imposed limitations. Hire me to write your campaign speech and I'll win you the presidency. Ask me to market your company and I'll make you a millionaire. The only thing I can't do is EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-38883205613320317372015-09-14T07:43:06.397-04:002015-09-14T07:43:06.397-04:00"...can appear to be there yet not BE there, ..."...can appear to be there yet not BE there, exactly."<br /><br />Sounds like Walker's brain, or my leathery President's principles.<br /><br />Speaking of Walker, isn't "not looking shifty" on the presidential candidate curriculum?EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-38896118817053871882015-09-14T07:25:37.410-04:002015-09-14T07:25:37.410-04:00He's Walker, Wisconsimian Ranger.
My neighbor...He's Walker, Wisconsimian Ranger.<br /><br />My neighbors to one side are pro-union, but Horowitz-believing, anti-tenure, supporters of Walker. If I were to launch something at their house, it would never hit it, because the logical inconsistencies and moving-goalpost arguments that emanate therefrom set up a kind of Schrodingerian wave function, the result of which is that the house can Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-87597038740394646222015-09-14T05:40:18.228-04:002015-09-14T05:40:18.228-04:00His post on his new job says that he was born in &...His post on his new job says that he was born in '76 - to me this is probably old enough to understand hat blogs & tweets aren't part of the tenure "conversation".<br /><br />I also feel some charity for him - his spouse is now out of work - but I would have felt more if he hadn't consistently been so preachy.<br /><br />Wisconsimiam cracked me up. A good epithet for EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-63837781805504147102015-09-12T22:04:21.017-04:002015-09-12T22:04:21.017-04:00The only trouble with a "tool parade" (i...The only trouble with a "tool parade" (in the original sense; we'll leave aside other possible meanings for the moment) is that there's some danger of the tail wagging the dog: making up pedagogical uses for a cool tool rather than looking for a tool that will solve a bonafide, probably pre-existing pedagogical problem. I think Jonathan Rees, who wrote the post to which I linkedContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-69692430198666572222015-09-12T16:43:21.308-04:002015-09-12T16:43:21.308-04:00I read that he did not pass his third year review:...I read that he did not pass his third year review: not enough publications. <br /><br />Sour grapes?Trish from Texarkanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01537710252663530562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30811883922858574012015-09-12T01:45:32.222-04:002015-09-12T01:45:32.222-04:00Oliver Lee reminds me of being told as a kid, &quo...Oliver Lee reminds me of being told as a kid, "Eat that, since there are starving children in poor countries who'd be glad to have it!" If he doesn't like being an academic, fine, no one is stopping him from walking away. A line of adjuncts who'll be glad (at first, anyway) to have that tenure-track job will quickly form: very sadly, a LONG line.<br /><br />(In the case of Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18903197716922397812015-09-11T23:15:15.773-04:002015-09-11T23:15:15.773-04:00Yes, I read that, too, and the juxtaposition of &q...Yes, I read that, too, and the juxtaposition of "Jesse Stommel" and "Tool Parade" sent my mind directly to the same conclusion.<br /><br />But I also found myself feeling a bit of charity towards him. He is described as a "future Virginian", with <a href="http://jessestommel.com/leaving-wisconsin/" rel="nofollow">a link to a post</a> that explains why he is about to Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71759402022528991292015-09-11T20:26:51.191-04:002015-09-11T20:26:51.191-04:00If I may be crude for a moment....
from the 2nd l...If I may be crude for a moment....<br /><br />from the 2nd link: Jesse Stommel calls this a “Tool Parade,”<br />personally, Jesse Stommel IS a tool parade.EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-59277746952186667812015-09-11T10:02:06.503-04:002015-09-11T10:02:06.503-04:00By the way, there are a couple of other responses ...By the way, there are a couple of other responses to Bateman's article (neither, I'd argue, better than Frankie's, just different; quit-lit pieces seem to have a certain rorschach quality) <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/no-one-cares-that-you-quit-your-job/404467/" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://moreorlessbunk.net/technology/Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14463846814594346462015-09-10T18:42:35.243-04:002015-09-10T18:42:35.243-04:00Yes, please to universal (single-payer/no middlepe...Yes, please to universal (single-payer/no middleperson) health care, respect communicated through appropriate training and decent wages through skilled labor (including the sort of organizational and caretaking labor that has traditionally been performed by women, and is way underpaid compared to the traditional "trades," though getting more women into those is an excellent idea as wellContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-22554156797676034682015-09-10T16:41:01.965-04:002015-09-10T16:41:01.965-04:00> and would make lenders tighten the requireme...> <i> and would make lenders tighten the requirements for giving out loans in the first place </i><br /><br />There was a time when the loans we're bankruptable (though they were harder to discharge than most debt) and the banks bore the cost when they were discharged in that way. Back then they did think about the future prospects of the loanee.<br /><br />Of course, it didn't result dmckeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18052641757203089416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-58393112667658046092015-09-10T16:04:56.708-04:002015-09-10T16:04:56.708-04:00I did not say that bankruptcy is a lottery win or ...I did not say that bankruptcy is a lottery win or a good thing. I said that, if it is to happen at all, bankruptcy should happen even more rarely than something else that happens very rarely. <br /><br />The lottery win was just my example of something that happens very, very rarely. I said "huge lottery win" because winning a couple of bucks is not a rare event. It's winning lots Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103879727877816655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-88939674780423085132015-09-10T15:51:48.345-04:002015-09-10T15:51:48.345-04:00Honestly, nobody in their right mind considers it ...Honestly, nobody in their right mind considers it a "huge lottery win" except perhaps for business tycoons like Republican front-runners who do it routinely. <br /><br />Whether it's a <i>great</i> idea or not, it should be an option. for people who take out loans for education as much as for people who take out loans for real estate speculation.<br /><br />Jonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47767753571271624752015-09-10T13:38:43.577-04:002015-09-10T13:38:43.577-04:00Frankie for Empress!
Bateman or anyone can certain...Frankie for Empress!<br />Bateman or anyone can certainly do or not do any job they see fit, but I admit I don't get the rationale behind quitting because the system is unjust. What job are you going to find where you're not exploiting someone, or providing a genuine good but providing it unequally? I had a friend who quit medicine because he couldn't stand having to turn people in Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16403289509523215570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-61445391854871737562015-09-10T11:51:12.464-04:002015-09-10T11:51:12.464-04:00I'm all for making loans easier to pay, especi...I'm all for making loans easier to pay, especially by simply making the prices more reasonable. However, I don't think bankruptcy should be available, and I'm glad it was not available to me when I may have needed it. Back then, my parents had actually printed out some information on bankruptcy, not realizing that the type of debt I had was not dischargeable. I'm not sure I would Monicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103879727877816655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-29600551836167219002015-09-10T11:03:46.754-04:002015-09-10T11:03:46.754-04:00Aside from Frankie Bow's excellent suggestions...Aside from Frankie Bow's excellent suggestions, I'd point out that Bateman's problem could be solved nearly entirely by making student loan debt bankruptable: it would take some of the load off of students, students' families, and would make lenders tighten the requirements for giving out loans in the first place. (This has to come along with increased financial aid in other formsJonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72795331930225682392015-09-10T07:33:21.077-04:002015-09-10T07:33:21.077-04:00I'm EC1, and I approve this (PG's) message...I'm EC1, and I approve this (PG's) message.<br /><br />On top of that, Bateman writes quite well, but is generally slightly wrong in subtle and not so subtle ways. Frankie's writing not only beats the c***p out of Bateman's, but she's right, too.EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18197456788971145662015-09-10T04:17:18.880-04:002015-09-10T04:17:18.880-04:00I'm PG, and I approve this message (the one by...I'm PG, and I approve this message (the one by Frankie). Especially if by "Universal" health care, you mean single-payer. Skilled trades! They can't be outsourced.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02906546940408742913noreply@blogger.com