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I am not clear on how colleges are 'making money' off these famous athletes. These are not-for-profit institutions, and funds from the two revenue generating sports pay for all the other programs. If you want to pay certain athletes, which programs will you cut - women's field hockey, men swimming....This isn't theoretical for the ADs (who are understandably so opposed to this idea), who will have to cut funds and reduce the partial scholarships to specific programs and specific athletes. There Read More...

Like it or not, you cannot have everything. People want startup environment, no problem; give them; they just will have no oil. It is that simple. If gas prices shoot to $20 / gallon, so be it. And if no gas is available, so be it. If it causes lots of unemployment, so be it. It is that simple. Life is not all wine and roses; it is a series of compromises. You cannot have pristine environment and plenty of oil. Hell, we have been destroying environment since human beings came on the planet earth. Read More...

I have to laugh about the bashing in your responses to Facebook and Twitter in the workplace. I think the concept that email is dying is bolstered by the fact that we all are responding to the article using responses in a blog fashion, and not emailing the editor or the author to the article. We are, in essence, having a real-time conversation based on a topic, much like the new technologies allow. Don't get hung follow up email on Facebook, but recognize how email could never allow a conversation Read More...

When I use Google, I really just want the most relevant results, not the results that my friends would like to see. What if my friend's are mostly far from scholarly, and I'm looking for intelligent and learned criticisms? I don't see this google algorithm change being any better at all than the normal Google search paradigm, and definitely riddled with problems. Another point is how does this really effect Google search results? Google already filters by recent searches, location, common links, Read More...

This is the prophet that married women looking for men a girl at age of 6? or the one that is allowed any woman that he desires married or not? Or is it the one that traded with slaves and teaches about a man marrying 4 wives and all the women that a man can OWN.? Is it the same one that beleives that a women has half the brain capacity as a man or that you need two women witnesses to equal one man? Is he the same one that teaches that a woman can't get married unless a man gives her away? Or is Read More...

Here's the thing with China... it doesn't give a bloated rat about its people. If a young man has a rough time in high school and gets out with anything less than an A, he's going to be unemployed, or begging, or working in the family business. If he's lucky, he might find a change of career in the military. In America, that same man can find any job, any career he wants... as long as he is willing to work for it. Not the case in china... you can work 80 hours a week your whole life and still die Read More...

William Fellman: the limitation of the franchise in 5th century B.C. Athens didn't keep the Athenians from plunging very enthusiastically into the Peloponnesian War, in which they suffered a disastrous defeat from which they never recovered. Institutional restraints like a franchise limitation or, for that matter, a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution, will never work in the absence of prudent self-restraint, such as a willingness to live within one's means. And that is a hard commodity Read More...

Unfortunately this is another myopic description on China's governance which is wrongly perceived as some kind of ruling class aristocracy. This commentor has ignored the fact that the party which is the path to governance and leaderships are open to every citizens of every background, even to the children of political prisoners. The requirements to qualify the admissions are solely academic and vocational competences. The path to advancement will depend on the leadership quality as the evaluation Read More...

I firmly believe we can always remember me very early memories. I was born in April 1943 and can remember when President Roosevelt's body came thru our town on the way to be buried. We lived in Thomasville, NC and the train tracks came thru the middle of town. I was the youngest and I rode on my Daddy's shoulders the two blocks to the tracks. Everyone was standing there and I remember everyone was crying very much. It was strange because it was in the middle of the night when we should all have Read More...

This intends no disrespect, but we are becoming so maudlin. I believe in appropriate and respectful memorials but our obsession with 9/11 has led us down a terrible path of overreaction. We needed more balance over the past decade in which we spent trillions to fight an ill concieved war on an ill defined enemy stripping resources and attention from immediate problems. 50,000 have dies of food obsession poisoning since 9/11 and we have reduced food safey resources. 1,000,000 have died of medical Read More...