Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation

entitlement generation 178 Comments

“My name is Paige Kezima…“

“The Voice of Students” is comprised of intelligent and eager students committed to advocating for the needs and wants of our students. Our platform is as follows:
– Lobby for a tuition freeze
– Increase funding to student groups and societies
– Review the locker tax
– Make more money available to student groups and societies

“My name is Paige Kezima… “

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Consider yourself “juxtaposed”.
h/t M. Couros

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

2012 17 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Carol Platt Liebau, March 2009 – [W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.
Micky Kaus, February 2012 – The President’s decision-making method–at least as described in the [New Yorker] –seems to consist mainly of checking boxes on memos his aides have written for him.
(Via)

What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?

The Tolerant Left 35 Comments

University!

[University of British Columbia sociology Prof. Neil Gross] and Solon Simmons of George Mason University surveyed more than 1,400 full-time professors at more than 900 American institutions. Only 19.7 percent of professors identified themselves as “any shade of conservative” (compared with 31.9 percent of the general population), while 62.2 percent identified themselves as some flavor of liberal (compared with 23.3 percent of Americans overall).
Gross found variation between disciplines. Social sciences and humanities contained the highest concentration of liberals. Conservatives were as numerous as liberals in business, health sciences, computer science and engineering.
Why so liberal? The most obvious explanation — one favored by conservative activists — is discrimination. Even some liberals buy it.
“This is a statistically impossible lack of diversity,” proclaimed the not-especially-conservative social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at last year’s Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting.
A show of hands had revealed three self-proclaimed conservatives in a gathering of 1,000 psychologists. Presented with such underrepresentation by gender or race, Haidt said, “our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation.”

h/t Bemused

We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars

Alternative Subsidy 19 Comments

The Guardian;

Nearly three years ago, the mayor of London told fellow international mayors in Seoul that he would ensure 100,000 electric vehicles were in London “as soon as possible”. But the London assembly’s environment committee found that since Johnson’s announcement, only 588 extra electric cars were registered in London.

Clearly the word we Canadians pronounce as “journalist” means something quite different in English;

The more experienced London journalists have developed a naturally sceptical eye which they cast over untrustworthy mayoral press releases. For example, on the subject of electric charging point infrastructure, the media did a wonderful job of correction in response to a mayoral press release of 14th February 2011 announcing that there would be 1,300 electric charging points by the end of 2013.
This was actually the same 1,300 charging points from which the mayor achieved very positive coverage for when he announced the previous February that they would be built over the subsequent next twelve months – something which clearly didn’t happen.

h/t Maz2
Meanwhile, across the pond….

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