W.J. Astore A strong trend in higher education today is to sell education as workforce development. I saw this at the college where I used to teach, which was unsurprising given that the college started as a technical institute in a conservative area. My college proudly advertised itself as valuing partnerships with business and industry,…
b. traven I’ve got to admit that a pet peeve of mine is senior members of the Democratic party who talk the talk of liberals or progressives but walk the walk of self seeking hypocrites who are only interested in their own careers. Of course my leading peeve is our liberally eloquent president who can…
b. traven I just read that David Koch (of the infamous brothers) was on the board of the New York “public” TV station WNET. And just incidentally he is the biggest contributor, to the tune of around $25 million, to PBS. He was just outed in New York Magazine as influencing content of that station…
The Contrary Perspective 