Dark Brightness

This is from Eternity Road. And it is a wonderfully apt description of the Democrats.

The oil spill is simply an apt metaphor for every disastrous action of the Obama administration, the kind that keep pouring out of dirty, slimy, corrupt minds day in and day out.

The only final question: is there a cavalry out there, bugles blaring, that's going to ride to our rescue? Two more years of Obama and there's not a smidgen of doubt in my mind that we'll be too far gone to be anything but a countrified Humpty Dumpty. I fully expect freedom's last stand will be in Australia sometime in the next decade. The second Alamo if you will.

via CRUSADER RABBIT: A post By Rachel Peepers, of Eternity Road:

Rachel, take comfort. The Democrats were always like this. This is why they only get four years in. Clinton — economically — was a republican. (His private philandering was in the best traditions of the Democratic party). The best option is that Obama will lose power in November — let is pray for this — and be a lame duck for two years.

I work for a university. In the Commonwealth (with the exception of Oxford and Cambridge) you have a broad education at secondary level & then have vocational courses running in parallel with scholars gaining their bachelor’s: Law, Medicine are bachelor’s, as are Music, Pharmacy and Engineering.

There is no expectation that everyone will do English, or PPE. And we ignore gender, ethnicity, race etc in hiring. We want the best.

If this report is the canary in the coal mine, the US undergraduate degree is not only over priced but it also is without merit.

Hat tip the Spearhead

Ross Forman is one of American higher education's best and brightest. He may also be a canary in its coal mine.

Three years ago, he was looking for a university teaching job. He had stellar credentials – an undergraduate degree in history and literature from Harvard and a Stanford doctorate in comparative literature; he'd published in academic journals, coedited an anthology, and organized conferences.

A temporary teaching job in the English department at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was coming to an end, and he was looking to take the next step in his professorial journey. He sent out applications “mainly in the US,” he says, but it was two applications that he sent farther afield that yielded the results: “I got both jobs in Asia: one in Hong Kong and one in Singapore.”

Professor Forman is among a growing number of top-notch American academics teaching at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and other institutions in Asia and the Middle East, part of a trend that is helping Asian universities rise in international university rankings and fueling a crisis of confidence in American higher education.

Since World War II, US higher education has been the gold standard. But challenged by increasing foreign competition, rising tuition costs, government cutbacks, flagging graduation rates, and questions about the very quality of the education being delivered, US dominance in academic and research power is now under threat.

via US college degrees: Still the best among world’s top universities? – Yahoo! News.

We guess https://pukeko.net.nz is written by a man 55%, however it's quite gender neutral.

via GenderAnalyzer – Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman.