Check out Figure B at the link below. Then come back. Go ahead, I’ll wait. U.S. workers enjoy far fewer vacation days than Europeans. It occurs to me that in my 22 year post-college career, I have never taken more than 5 consecutive days off from work. Many of our European friends are required to […]

In Fuzzy Nation, Scalzi combines his usual quick witted take on sci-fi with a legal thriller to produce a totally fun book to read. Even though the book is loads of fun, it takes on a very serious issue. What would happen if corporate America were mining a distant planet and stumbled into a sentient […]

If you still don’t get why privacy matters, this short piece of speculative fiction might help. Thankfully, it is fiction. Someday, it might be considered prescient. Nanolaw with Daughter (Ftrain.com).

This week’s featured record is by The Record, which would be confusing if kids today had any idea what a record was. The Record hails from NC, and emerged from the ashes of Gossip Grows on Trees, which has the distinction of being the last music I ever bought on Aime Street, before Amazon killed […]

In high schools, the vocational arts have all but vanished. We’ve elevated the importance of "higher education" to such a lofty perch that all other forms of knowledge are now labeled "alternative." Millions of parents and kids see apprenticeships and on-the-job-training opportunities as "vocational consolation prizes," best suited for those not cut out for a […]

Welcome to a new feature on O’DonnellWeb. I’ll be posting a review of a newish rock record every Friday. Even I’m getting bored with all the serious education theory around here. This week, we are talking about This is Gonna Hurt, the new record from Sixx AM, which is the side project from Motley Crue […]

via n+1: Bad Education. This article sums up just about everything we’ve been talking about around here with regards to college costs. College costs up 900% since 1978, or about 650% in excess of inflation. The “everybody must go to college” mentality led to the government making easy money available to do so. The demand […]

When the Wall Street Journal finally folds, we may look back on this as the beginning of the end. If somebody had presented me with just the text of the article, I would have guessed it came from The Onion. But it’s actually a serious Op-Ed from The Wall Street Journal. The position of the […]