I am tired of this story.
Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for fourteen years. She is not going to wake up and be okay again. Since she apparently left no living will, her husband—as legal authority on the matter—has the right to decide that medical science cannot help her, and he has the right to demand that her feeding tube be removed.
I can only say, duh. The cost of higher education in this country is unreasonable, and it’s getting worse all the time. It’s a real shame when you consider that a college education has never been more important than it is today.I don’t know what the best way to fix this is. First and foremost, we need to improve the pre-college public education. If a high school diploma actually counted for anything, perhaps college wouldn’t be as necessary as it has become.
But our workforce does, indeed, need to be better educated today than it has needed to be in the past. It’s not just reading, writing, arithmetic, and civics anymore! Seeing what our nation’s governments have done with public schools, I cannot advocate making higher education part of that decrepit system. But, I am wholly dissatisfied with the misplaced focus of our for-profit colleges and universities.
There has to be some kind of middle-road that would refocus higher education on education rather than money, but would avoid getting it as screwed up as our public schools. Let me know if you have any ideas.
To this, I say duh. My Mercury Sable was totaled by a Jeep Wrangler in a low-speed crash, and my poor Cirrus was done $3,000 worth of damage in a low-speed crash with a Ford SUV (which came out undamaged).
Well, I have my political endorsements up for the November 2 election. I created a new subsection within my nonfiction section called “political endorsements” where these go, although my Presidential endorsement appears on my front page in the place of the Front Page Rant.
Most people who read this site are aware that I tend toward the conservative side of the political spectrum. I voted for President Bush in 2000 (my first election) and, in fact, have voted Republican for most offices in most elections since. But, despite my admitted predispositions, I go into every election with an open mind. I consider the candidates who are in the running—their record, their stances on various important issues, the nature of their campaigning and rhetoric, their character, etc.—and make a decision.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
