We have a production of Hair coming and he is all in a tither because of full frontal nudity and 10 year olds being exposed. Says the media won't talk to him because of who he is and he is trying to contact CNN


he is a strange one

difficulties in the job market. nt

rather sad

A lot of students believe there's a deal between society and those who get the right boxes checked off.

They don't understand why there's no deal. Perhaps because at that level there's no "society": there are just the people who make up society. They didn't sign a deal. But those students are so wedded to the idea that there is a "they" that they have trouble with reality.

They also don't understand that the boxes are to supposed to indicate reality; they aren't supposed to be reality. You check off a box that says "BA" and it's supposed to mean that you haven't just gotten the box checked off, but actually have learned at least the minimum required by most people for obtaining the BA. At bad schools, at diploma mills, in some departments, for some majors, it's possible to graduate having done a lot of scut work and not learned anything. Then that BA gets your foot in the door--at most--but can't keep the door from hitting you in the ass as your employer tells you to get out.

For this guy, his UG and grad "career" just kept him out of the unemployment statistics. That was their service to society. Perhaps he should go back and get a series of PhDs before he retires to community-center reading groups and pottery classes. Average time for art history is something like 9, 10 years. That, classics, and philosophy and he'll easily be at retirement age.


I liked Atlantic's ranking of schools. Gotta like anything that puts Harvey Mudd at the top. (My first school was in the top 10. Hard to get into, hard to stay in, hard to graduate. But if you pass, it's not because you checked off boxes. A "C" tells you you've learned more than an "A" does at a lot of other schools.) The Atlantic's ranking of degrees was pro forma: based on the last 10 years, their warning that the past may be prolog to the future but is not a preview of the future is all too true.

I wonder how he got any degree at all

This is what happens when high schools don't have good guidance counselors.

and would have complained that someone just didn't like him.