First, find me a box of cereal that squirms and drips snot in winter
Congratulations to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who knows a critical rule of politics: declare victory whenever you can, no matter whether you were right. I am quite serious about his political acumen: his push of a system that assigned letter grades to schools was ingenious politics. And Bush deserves credit for supporting a research […]
Dozens of Veblens, a handful of Heckmans, not one Keynes
Skimming the Ryan Lizza portrait of Larry Summers, reading Paul Krugman’s focus on the size of the stimulus, and listening to Krugman’s The Return of Depression Economics while driving around Tampa this week makes it clear to me that outside the bubble that is Fox News and talk radio, Krugman, Romer, and a number of […]
We could do without all the excitement, thank you
I was off campus by 12:30 yesterday afternoon, so I didn’t have all the fun of several reports of gunmen on the USF campus in Tampa (student-run USF Oracle, Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, CNN). As the press representative of the campus police noted, you can’t ignore called-in threats or reports, even if you think […]
Power outage
Some things you just have to laugh at. I charged out of the house this morning to get the car’s oil changed and head to my office to chug through teaching and other work stuff. In the last five hours, I’ve spent half of the time waiting for the car (and trying not to grit […]
Child murder, Chicago style
Chicago teacher Deborah Lynch pointed out in a Sun-Times opinion piece yesterday that one of the Chicago schools’ “turnaround targets” this fall has been Fenger High School, near the gang fight that led to Derrion Albert’s death and the school where she implies many of the combatants attend. (Hat tip/alternative source.) I am not saying […]