My son told me the other day he’d encourage any children he has to go to trade school. I suspect a lot of people feel like him:
DailyDirt: Are College Degrees Useless Now? (via Techdirt)
The education industry seems to be ripe for disruption. Although it’s undeniable that higher education and advanced technical skills are correlated with higher salaries, more and more parents and students are questioning the real value of college. If…
He always planned to become governor, and once he was U.S. Attorney, he went after Democratic politicians and a few unimportant Republicas (for cover). But making a deal like this is just disgusting.
Will Cheese Derail TAFTA/TTIP? (via Techdirt)
A battle over cheese could prove a major problem for the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations currently getting down to serious discussions. Here’s the background, as reported by the Guardian: As part of trade talks, the European Union wants to ban the use of European…
That few people on their deathbed think to themselves, “You know, I really wish I’d been meaner to people.”
As I said all along, Christie was obviously 
m/news/documents-christie-port-authority-appointees-kept-campaign-manager-in-loop-on-fallout-from-gwb-lane-closures-1.744676″>going through his campaign manager (and vice versa) over the GWB lane closures and whatever other monkey business they planned:
Governor Christie’s top Port Authority appointees were keeping his campaign manager informed about the fallout from the lane closures from their earliest stages, according to documents released today by the George Washington Bridge investigative committee.
The Port Authority executives each forwarded campaign manager Bill Stepien an email on Sept. 12 – the third day of the closures, which caused huge traffic jams in Fort Lee — from the borough’s mayor, who complained that the closures endangered the public.
In the letter from Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, the Democrat complains that he is “reaching the conclusion that there are punitive overtones associated with this initiative.”
Baroni forwarded the letter to Stepien, along with the note, “Following up.” The campaign manager replied, “Thanks.” Wildstien also forwarded the letter to Stepien. All three men used their personal, rather than official, email accounts. No further discussion is contained in the documents.
Oh, did I say that out loud? Sorry!
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) would like Nancy Pelosi to apologize for her remarks suggesting that Republicans don’t care about “struggling families and really hungry children.” But that’s not going to happen.
Over the weekend, the Democratic House minority leader said at the California Democrats State Convention in Los Angeles that an anonymous Republican friend told her that struggling Americans “are invisible, and the Republican caucus is indifferent to them.”
That was too much for Cantor, who demanded that she eat her words.
“How outrageous is that?” the No. 2 House Republican told Fox News on Thursday night. “The minority leader in the House should really, I think, apologize for that statement. That’s outrageous. We all want to help inner city kids. We all want to help people. And the debate should be around what’s the best way to help people.”
Seems like soldiers have been treating themselves for decades:
The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing as a major shift in U.S. policy.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ decision surprised marijuana advocates who have struggled for decades to secure federal approval for research into the drug’s medical uses.
The proposal from the University of Arizona was long ago cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, but researchers had been unable to purchase marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The agency’s Mississippi research farm is the only federally-sanctioned source of the drug.
In a letter last week, HHS cleared the purchase of medical marijuana by the studies’ chief financial backer, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which supports medical research and legalization of marijuana and other drugs.
They just make up their own definitions of the law as they go along!
This song was very popular among the mothers for peace movement in Northern Ireland. It always baffled me that somewhere, in 1991, some PR hack decided this Julie Gold song would be a perfect theme song for the first Iraq invasion. It was played everywhere, and I know Nanci Griffith was baffled and disturbed by the whole thing:
http://youtu.be/jF4BralTQW8
Liam Clancy:
