The Planet Will Continue To Cook.

It’s Not About The Budget; It’s About The Power...so Will The Attack On Unions Succeed? I Don’t Know. But Anyone Who Cares About Retaining Government Of The People By The People Should Hope That It Doesn’t.

Most People, I Suspect, Still Have In Their Minds An Image Of America As The Great Land Of College Education, Unique In The Extent To Which Higher Learning Is Offered To The Population At Large. That Image Used To Correspond To Reality. But These Days Young Americans Are Considerably Less Likely Than Young People In Many Other Countries To Graduate From College. In Fact, We Have A College Graduation Rate That's Slightly Below The Average Across All Advanced Economies.

As I've Often Said, You Can Shop Online And Find Whatever You're Looking For, But Bookstores Are Where You Find What You Weren't Looking For.

Whenever You See Some Business Person Quoted Complaining About How He Or She Can't Find Workers With The Necessary Skills, Ask What Wage They're Offering. Almost Always It Turns Out What Said Business Person Really Wants Is Highly (and Expensively) Educated Workers At A Manual-labor Wage. No Wonder They Come Up Short.

The United States In Particular And The West In General Should Be Feeling A Little Embarrassed About All That Lecturing We Did To The Third World.