After suffering heartless rejection by the Wall Street Journal and running in (apparently) only the dead tree version of the Newark Star-Ledger, my NCLB oped is finally online courtesy of a Florida paper today.
Teaser line: “NCLB has states and feds smiling thinly across a mountain of paperwork like two cheating spouses in front of the children.”
I was going to sit this one out, but I’m not sure I can.
Harvard President Larry Summers finally released a transcript of his recent remarks on women and science at an NBER conference on the issue. I’m depressed but not shocked to discover that there is little or nothing in them that I might not have said. No statement in his presentation is clearly untrue or even irresponsibly oversold. Nor do his remarks suggest that Summers harbors any desire whatsoever to keep women out of academia.
I’ll probably have more on this later.
From the NYT.
Update: There are, however, some thoughtful and interesting critiques of some of Summers’ comments here, that are worth a read.
I’m in the Orange County Register today, discussing the relationship between teacher merit pay and school choice.
For a couple of months now I’ve been suffering with this dreadful problem of stuck icons in OSX, or “icons under glass.” I couldn’t move the darn things, nor could I drag and drop files on email. But thanks to this wonderful, wonderful anonymous geek on the ezboard website named “lonestrider,” my icons are slipping and sliding again. If you have this problem, go into /Library/Caches/ and delete your icon caches, then reboot. Some of your icons may look a little funny, but they’ll all loosen up. I never realized that rearranging files in Finder could be so pleasurable.
Thank you Mr. lonestrider!! You are the best!!
I sealed a deal with the inimitable Cato Institute for work over the summer. This means that I’ll definately be in the District, and I won’t even have to live out of a shopping cart near the Vietnam memorial.
I’m heading to The Middle East this evening to see this absolutely adorable local garage pop-punk band made good. Check out their debut album “From The Attic” for a solid 45 minutes of jumping up and down in your livingroom radio tunes.
Eak! I can’t believe I just recommended a band.
I don’t know whether it’s inspiring or sad that even our grouchiest, most disenchanted libertarian writers assume that some things remain safely outside the scope of public policy. Not so, proves Virginia’s proposed ‘droopy drawers’ statute. Reveal your boxers, go to jail. It’s the law.