The quality of education at the University of California (where I have been a graduate student since 2003) is plummeting.  I hear from my friends at the California State Universities that things are looking equally bad there, too. Why are these proud institutions rapidly losing their reputation as world-class centers of learning?
Budget cuts. [...]

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There Will Be $2 Gas.  That about sums up John McCain’s economic plan.  After admitting more than once that he’s not very knowledgeable about the economy, McCain has offered some unrealistic proposals.  It looks like he’s counting on things just somehow getting better.  We’re supposed to believe that we’ll suddenly have $2 gas again, that [...]

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I remember one of my teachers in high school saying something about how my generation would have to deal with “crumbling infrastructure.” I dismissed him as a rambling old man back then, but only 10 years after he said that, we’re seeing tragedy after tragedy unfold as basic infrastructure fails spectacularly here, in the [...]

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It’s after 1 in the morning here at Love Headquarters, and we’ve had a tough night.
In good news, it appears that many of my predictions were quite accurate — including the popular vote numbers (which I pulled completely out of my butt).
In bad news, enough of my predictions have yet to be proven right that [...]

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