"Oh, Liberal Arts Major, My Hero!"

Thanks for the site, after reading another article there I have a little more respect for Comic Sans too!

Interestingly enough, aside from the humor of the uselessness of a degree in the feel-good arts, these days virtually every disaster from small local idsasters and personal losses to large national events - legions of "grief councillors" and sundry professional emotional crisis managers are flown in as part of the nanny state's public entitlement package to "victims".

So it was, in the rubble of the post 9-11 event, aside from the hero firemen,police and disaster relief professionals there was also an army of degreed feel-good sciences officers available for crisis councilling and public "healing".

Academic or pragmatic uselessness means nothing in a socialist system, there's a mke-work job waiting in the socialist dystopic universe for every useless teat the colleges spit out.

Sorry ... not hiring the constitutionally useless anymore. Don't really care what level of uselessness you have been educated to.

And now this:

http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romney-americas-most-successful-english-major-194725770.html

It still makes more sense than Armageddon.

It's kind of mean to pick on un-skilled labourers, but what the hell...

Mining asteroids - just a little harder than herding cats.

I can't believe that anyone would seriously consider this.

Link remind me of a "remarkable".... but thoroughly forgetable golfing white house resident.

Nice white teeth sure, but can he do laundry?

in addition to grief counceling there are plenty of useless degree holders running human resources offices, communications(spin doctoring)and the all time favorite of the terminally pointless; safety officialdom.

"Look behind you, Radioactive Man! The sun is exploding again!"

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F17.html

I just had to.

Didn't "grief counsellors" sed to be called priests? Good grief.

Earth First!

We'll mine other planets later!

It's the "and get out before it explodes" part that I found unbelievable.

The movie about the mission will be called "The Expendables".

Economists...are they useful? Discuss!

Just me, SChiff, Schiller, Williams and Sowell. Otherwise, no.

"Okay the bomb is armed. Hey Larry! Where'd you put the keys for the spaceship?!"

"Hey Larry! Where'd you put the keys for the spaceship?!"

Last time I saw them Curly was cleaning his ears with them Moe. nyuk nyuk nyuk

I have a degree in liberal arts, but with far more math and physics than any liberal arts major I ever met, I was on the "six year plan" and it has stood me in good stead my whole life. But in those days one was taught how to think, not what to think. Young people assume I have advanced degrees. It is embarrassing sometimes. Education has crashed on the rocks.

Tim in Vermont ... I sometimes feel a little remorse for folks like you getting tarred with the same brush that is being used on others.

Like the fellow I work with who got his BA in Languages and masters in poli-sci. He's almost the complete contrary of what we see as the stereotype lib-arts major. The difference I think is that he actually uses the tools he was given and aquired the experience to build on.

What we see so often highlighted in these stories is the apparently increasing sense of entitlement found in todays young students and grads ... they actually seem to believe that because they are in university or have a degree that they have earned their place in the world.

I believe that reality will be so much harder on them then on those who haven't been caught in the trap.

But in those days one was taught how to think, not what to think.

Posted by: tim in vermont at April 29, 2012 5:10 PM

perfect quote, tim...

University has ceased to be a place of learning how to learn and a place of learning what to say...hence the utter disdain for the majority of 'degrees' conferred on people who only know how to parrot talking points on meaningless subjects created solely to keep 'professors' employed with no understanding of or ability to critically examine them...and the recent upsurge in 'protestors' trying to make, as was so eloquently said, and I paraphrase, "high school graduates pay for their degrees". is going to end badly for all concerned since these 'entitled elites' have no concept of what the violence they espouse is going to become.

I have to admit that I'm a little confused by this...how does one 'go on strike' against something one is paying for ? but then again, these children don't see it as something they purchase, they see it as some sort of 'right' that someone else has to pay for...

The easiest fix for the Quebec gov't, and the one that should be swiftly implemented, is to refund the remainder of the tuition for the year to all active protestors but not for any that are proven to be causing damage and expel them all.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/04/20120429-143156.html

MONTREAL - The largest student federation representing striking students unanimously rejected the government's latest tuition offer as another night of protest is scheduled in downtown Montreal on Sunday.

The federation, called CLASSE, made the announcement Sunday morning on Twitter.

Leaders of the two other large student federations told QMI Agency that they believe their member associations will also reject the offer.

Quebec Premier Jean Charest said Friday that he would spread a roughly 75% tuition increase over seven years instead of five.

My favourite in reading the NP article on the Quebec protesters was the person getting their Masters of Dance!

My favourite in reading the NP article on the Quebec protesters was the person getting their Masters of Dance!

Also useless in fending off asteroids:

Commerce degrees, agriculture degrees, nursing degrees, medical degrees, law degrees, education degrees, architecture degrees.

So if a useful degree means being able to operationalize an anti-asteroid plan, that leaves us with engineers and some types of science degrees (biologists and chem majors need not apply).