The Abode of McThag

I don't think many politicians understand what "affordable" means. It means that I have enough money to afford it. It can mean...

Making daylight savings time permanent is not a great idea. It was tried in 1974 and it didn't work out well come winter. Children ended...

He echoes some things I've said.  Why am I not shocked that two of his cited examples originate with white women?  He doesn't say li...

A modest proposal for the student loan crisis.   With a workable solution. Of course that means we'll never try it. 

Joe Huffman posted. At issue is: Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It’s not that the...

Once upon a time, no shit there I was... I embarked on being a psychologist. In my senior year, I did an (unpaid) internship with a practici...

  My college degree didn't mess it up. It was the stuff I learned auto-didactically between getting my high school diploma and my colleg...

40 Years Ago some engineers put on their manager hats and seven Astronauts died. I was in the lunch line at school buying my breakfast. They...

Once again: The possession, use, or storage of Weapons or Firearms is strictly prohibited on all [Brown] University Property and at [Brown] ...

A long, long time ago, my local school did IQ tests on everyone. If you scored really well, you got put into the "gifted" program,...

The teachers in my county are discovering how the rest of us live. Their new health plan will result in them paying  up to  $36 a month to ...

Just like everyone experiences the upgrade differently, not every person on the "good" side of the barrier gets all the benefits b...

If there are any flying monkeys left reading: Redneck Rising Credentials and training that aren't actually needed to do the job at hand ...

Student loan forgiveness is back on Facebook! "Not paying back a loan made with someone else's money isn't forgiveness, it'...

Scammers Using AI Bots to Steal Financial Aid The Lovely Harvey  is on the front lines stopping this! Her little college is getting very goo...

If we can believe the statements of the Secretary of Education, the dismantling of her department is not supposed to get in the way of stude...

All the news talk about shutting down the Department of Education is talking about concerns K-12. Nary a peep about what higher ed programs ...

The Lovely Harvey works for a small college. She's worried about DOGE and her job. The more I look at what DOGE could find the less wor...

 

The Department of Education was broken out of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by congress under The Department of Education ...