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Overnight Open ThreadIs Education The Common Thread To Our Political Dramas? Well not all of them but it does seem to be a root cause for a lot of current political issues. To start with our public schools are not doing a very good job. That's bad enough but fixable over time. But worse we're paying way too much for the poor educations that our kids get. So since 1970 we're now spending almost 3 times as much on education per student (in constant dollars) and getting jack sh!t for it. And the only thing worse than an expensive, under-performing public school system is an uber-expensive university system that encourages students to take on debts approaching a house mortgage yet leaves them ill-prepared to actually earn a living, much less pay back their loans. Which is pretty much what we have. Here Bookworm points out that if you distill the causes behind Occupy Wall Street into two words, they would be student loans: Because it seems as if every one of the loopy Occupy Wall Street dudes and dudettes interviewed complains about those students loans. (See here, for example.) Two out of thirteen of the demands on the Occupy Wall Street website focus on student loans And now Obama is considering an executive order that would lower student loan payments to no more than 10% of a graduate's income. Will this help? Nope - the average borrower would only save about $5 per month: Using these values as the high and low bounds of average student debt over the last ten years, the monthly savings for the average student loan borrower would be between $4.50 and $7.75 per month. Clearly, this isn’t going to save the economy. While borrowers with bigger balances would save more, this is the average. And even someone with $100,000 in loans would only cut their monthly payments by $28.50.If you're effectively unemployable in your field, cutting you monthly debt payment by $5 is not going to solve the job - or loan - problem. So expect student loans and the semi-worthless degrees they paid for to continue generating political heat. Why Reporters Should Work in a Factory First The newspaper interviewed 20 people who worked in an Amazon warehouse in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. They described, and the newspaper verified, temperatures of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37 degrees Celsius, in the warehouse, causing several employees to faint and fall ill and the company to maintain ambulances outside. Employees were hounded to “make rate,” meaning to pick or pack 120, 125, 150 pieces an hour, the rates rising with tenure.And one commenter notes that the writer conflates a heat index of 100 with a temperature of 100 degrees. Can You have Too Many College Graduates? Much of the pressure arises because Koreans believe their children must go to college to guarantee themselves a middle-class future. As a result, Korea has one of the highest college-going rates of any nation — a category in which, as Obama has complained, the United States has slipped to 12th. More than 60 percent of Koreans ages 25 to 34 have higher educations, compared with about 40 percent in the United States, and the gap is growing. 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' Locations The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( FILMING LOCATION VIDEO ) Leone Eastwood Ennio Morricone theme song from Herve Attia on Vimeo. Some War Pr0n The Color Pink Does Not Exist The Draining of Color in Modern Movies Translating Scientist-speak Pregnant Performance Artist Pulls Off Live Birth on Stage Both mother (Marni Kotak) and baby (a boy, who was not, ultimately, called "art," but given the moniker Ajax) are apparently happy and healthy and probably quite pleased with themselves. The birth occurred, yup, in a gallery, in front of a crowd of onlookers at the appropriately named Microscope Gallery, reportedly with the baby's father on hand, at 10:17 on Tuesday morning. The Village Voice, meanwhile, just missed the birth; by the time they arrived they saw "Kotak calmly eating a banana, the placenta in a bowl, and the baby's father, Jason, holding his son who was wrapped in a blue towel. Tonight's post brought to you by the semi-mythical Playboy for the blind: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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