We haven't heard from him ... and I'm pretty grateful for that.

Quote:America's Best- And Worst-Educated Cities

Joshua Zumbrun, 11.24.08, 06:00 PM EST

If you're looking for solid economies with low unemployment, follow the college degrees.

Over the course of a lifetime, the average American with a college degree out-earns someone who stops at high school by several hundred thousand dollars. That's why even $50,000-a-year educations are still "worth it" in an economic sense.

And what of cities that contain better-educated residents--are they better off as well?

Yes. A look at America's 10 best- and 10 worst-educated cities is a study in contrasts. The best-educated cities, as measured by the proportion of people older than 25 with bachelor's, master's, professional and doctoral degrees, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, are a collection of university, research and corporate havens with buoyant economies and low unemployment. Those at the other end of the scale tend to be--yet aren't always--just the opposite.

A couple of interesting articles found looking up other things:
Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

This article doesn't specifically deal with alleged "diploma mills," but it does articulate the strategy employed by destructive radical leftist organizations in the US.  

Quote:To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.

Quote:The creeping Leftist totalitarianism in academia is so ubiquitous and so mundane that when it appears in a discipline not thought to be overflowing with nutty Leftists, like Criminal Justice, we yawn.  W[hen] students are told to do a "research paper" which explicitly directs them to sources that they must use and sources that they must not use, we shrug in indifferent despair.  

Our colleges have adopted the same attitude toward intellectual inquiry and scholarly objectivity that colleges in the Soviet Union and in Nazi Germany.  The Communist Party in the Soviet Union demanded, for example, that biologists use the fantastically silly theories of Lysenko, and those who did not ended up in the Gulag.  The Nazi Party insisted that colleges use Nazi racial theories in every area of study, and with very few exceptions, the professors of Germany nodded in agreement.    

Is Mein Kampus a more descriptive term for many colleges in America today? Once politically correct thinking was limited to those disciplines which deal directly with politics.  Today biologists must have politically correct views on Darwinism, geologists must have politically correct views on global warming, and criminal justice professors must have politically correct views on President Bush.  

Once again, somebody focusing on shortcuts to a TESC degree and those goddam FEMA credits!!! DL is about flexibility and freedom to pursue an education in a non-traditional manner. In cases where a student has extensive non-academic, college-level experience there are avenues to validate some of that knowledge in the form of college credits. What it is not about is scamming the higher educational system to receive a degree for which you did little or no work and didn't actually learn anything new.

I despise those parasitic MF'ers at DI like pugbelly, Blue Mason and now, Sowak777. If the system ever starts to tighten up and place greater restrictions on previously earned credit, it will be due to the excesses of the asswipes named above and those like them.

Degreeinfo thread

Does anyone know why Ted Heiks hasn't participated in this thread? Did he have a falling out with Uncle Janko? Is he boycotting DD due to some preceived slight or has he foolishly chosen to follow Abner (a complete asshole) and return to DI (run by Chip the Toelicker)?  

Uncle J's DD mega-thread

Did some type of meeting between two of the larger figures in the DL world take place? I don't know but if Douglas had business in Boston, I can't imagine why he would stay in Quincy. (BTW, Quincy Market isn't in Quincy, it's in Boston.) Based on RCD's post, I'm not sure if he was trying to drop a hint or if his stay in Quincy was just a coincidence.


DI "Rich Douglas in Boston" thread

Simply unbelievable:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7740904.stm

Even Ezzel pipes in saying that Trinity Theological Seminary degrees are illegal in some states. I wish he would point out which state outlaws legitimate Christian degrees.

Bear sure did an axe job on a legitimate school. The U of Wales determined the programs were up to their standards and they were. Only BBC busybodies and Bear who's suddenly an expert in Christian education seemed to differ.

It's time for Trinity to sail to Wales and launch a libel lawsuit under a whole new set of rules.

I came across an interesting thread started, by of all people, Bruce the Cop.

DI thread on DL accomplishments

There are some impressive achievements, some people really took advantage of the explosion of DL offerings in the last 10 years, and there are some other things that just cause you to shake your head. I point to hemorrhoid #1 pugbelly proudly boasting about receiving "tons" of those bogus FEMA credits to use as electives. As I have said about the FEMA credits before, just accept the credits, receive the degree and STFU about it!!! It isn't college-level anything and certainly nothing to be proud of.

Other than disco, is there any form of music more gay than chamber music? Which makes it the perfect genre for George Gollin and his lovely unhyphenated wife to sponsor:

Quote:GUARNERI STRING QUARTET
Marquee Chamber Series | Foellinger Great Hall
Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 7:30pm

SPONSORS OF THIS PERFORMANCE

We welcome Melanie Loots
and George Gollin as new
co-sponsors. Their gift helps to
build chamber music audiences
by bringing stellar ensembles to
this community.

They have always had a rocky relationship and there has always been some tension between the two but ... Levicoff really unloaded this time. Lev viciously criticised Douglas for not disclosing his involvement with U of Leicester during several posts in which the latter highlighted Leicester's comparative rankings.

Lev attacks RCD thread at DD

I'm all about the Truth and full disclosure, which is certainly warranted here. I seem to recall, however, that Bomber Douglas had a Leicester link in his signature block. Did Gus or whoever is at the helm of that sinking ship remove it for violating TOS? In any event, I generally like it when Levicoff blasts someone, especially since it is often one of the sacred cows of DD. There is also something inherently funny about an underachieving truck driver with a PhD ripping anyone about anything related to education.