Every boomer who figured out how to game the Selective Service system will now be looking for a way to get their kid out of his or her student loan debt. This is only the beginning.
Law School Dropout Gets Student Debt Wiped Out Because of Asperger’s Syndrome – News – ABA Journal.
From Philly.com: William Southrey, president of the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, said the mission has seen 87 people from Pennsylvania so far this year, 42 from Gloucester County, 56 from Cumberland County, and 70 from Camden County, most without referrals. He called Gloucester County one of the worst offenders in sending people without referrals, which county officials denied.
“They’re using the term Greyhound therapy,” Southrey said, of social service agencies elsewhere who see the seaside resort town’s shelters, soup kitchens, and recovery programs as answers to their needs and often send off their clients on buses. “In the dark of the night, some of them just roll out of jail, they send them to us.”
The economists call this “externality,” where you stick someone else with your expenses. Like when you dump your toxic waste behind your factory and the federal government has to clean it up.
The Arizona Secretary of State has decided that Obama is, in fact, a citizen.
But for a while there, he had his doubts, so he kept demanding more and more proof from Hawaiian officials. They in turn, “forced him to provide proof that he is who he says he is. They asked him to send them copies of the Arizona laws that prove the secretary of state really is the person in charge of handling the ballots.” Good for them.
Arizona Secretary Of State Says It’s ‘Possible’ Obama Won’t Be On Ballot | TPMMuckraker.
Facebook users are uploading 250,000,000 photos a day and Google wants to get in on the fun. That way, they’ll have a perpetual license to use your photos. Cool, huh?
Google’s Secret Weapon for Social: Your Photos – Businessweek.
Facebook went public at $38 per share. The IPO sold about 1/6 of the company to the public, raising $16 billion; it was the third largest IPO in U.S. history. Zuckerberg retains a 22% ownership share in Facebook and will own 57% of the voting shares.
Facebook did brilliantly, selling a fraction of the company for much more than it was apparently worth (given that the shares are trading for less than the IPO price).
“They picked a bad banker and an awful exchange,” Barry Ritholtz said. Ritholtz is a widely followed financial blogger and the chief market strategist at Fusion IQ.
I’m guessing that Ritholtz is mad that he lost money. Ahhh, Bite Me.
via Facebook drops again as pressure to perform mounts – chicagotribune.com.
Politifact checked up on a statement by Newark Mayor Cory Booker that 61 percent of the NJ prison population is African-American even though the state is just 13 percent black. Politifact rated the statement “true.” So far, so good.
But then they “wondered how New Jersey compares with the rest of the nation.” They produced statistics that “nearly 38 percent of prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction at the end of 2010 were black.” And that 12.6 percent of the US population is black. Then Politifact neglected to do a simple analysis of the numbers.
So let the Bitemaster do it for them:
61/13 = 4.69. In other words, the black prison population in NJ is 4.69 times higher than the black share of the NJ population.
38/12.6 = 3.02. For the whole country, the black prison population is about 3 times that of the black proportion of the population.
How much worse is the problem in NJ, compared to the counrty as a whole?
4.69/3.02 = 1.55. The disparity is one and a half times worse in New Jersey.
Instead of saying that things are one and half times worse in NJ, Politifact quoted a Seton Hall professor who said “I don’t think it’s any more in New Jersey than in other areas.”
For not pulling out their calculator, Politifact can Bite Me.
According to Deven Black, the education maven behind “Education on the Plate,” the NYS Regents (they control education policy for NY State) are about to jettison the state Global History Regents Exam because recent scores have been too low. This after years of trumpeting how they’re raising the state’s educational standards.
It reminds me of how, every few years, someone gets the bright idea of releasing the names of the johns along with the names of hookers who got arrested. The practice always seems to end a few weeks later, presumably because too many politicians, judges and captains of industry would be embarrassed.
Through the Education Standards Looking Glass « Education On The Plate.
Rising right-wing star Katrina Trinko defamed Elizabeth Warren (accusing her of plagiarism) then retracted her offending online post. That’s a good thing.
Then why should she Bite Me? Because her research consisted of checking a publication date at AMAZON.COM! Not Books in Print, not Nexis.com, not asking the publisher, not asking Elizabeth Warren. I suggest that she try Wikipedia next time.
via NRO Retracts Plagiarism Charge Against Elizabeth Warren (UPDATED) | TPM Livewire.
“Your Content in our Services: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.”
Holy crap! I use online backup. Have I licensed my files to them, too?
Who owns your files on Google Drive? | Internet & Media – CNET News.
Maybe it’s worse than I thought: If the young and rich flee the impending economic tailspin of Greece, only the old and the poor will be left.
Fear and confusion rule as Greece faces uncertain future – CNN.com