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D’Souza book fifth on New York Timesbest seller list
Whether it is left or right views, whether is D’nesch D’Souza, Michael Moore or all the other political hacks turned “journalist”, memoirist, or other published diatribes, there’s really one motivator and that's personal greed with a capital GREED. Sadly lame ass lemmings we call adults in this country actually purchase these books, buy the DVDs or watch the Kabuki theater swallowing the whole body politic. Politicians are one of the most successful con men, now women, occupations in the U.S. ranking right ahead of lobbyists.— August 27, 2018 1:09 p.m.
JustWondering: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/08/...
To be clear, please notice the quotation marks in my original post, from a news service. Here is a link to the source article. https://www.chronicle.com/article/U-of-Akron-Will… I agree with Mr. Bauder, a classical education, has more value than one in so called competitive esports, ***in my opinion.*** While my opinion may not be progressive, an esports degree ‘seems’ rather restrictive in what you could do with it. And that’s not saying that some Universities haven’t offered other dubious degree programs. With that said, I can easily imagine the eye rolls as a hiring manager was reading through resumés and came across a degree in eSports Summa Cum Laude. It would probably the first one to hit the “round file”.— August 23, 2018 11:52 a.m.
Larry Lucchino, switch hitter on ballpark subsidies
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/08… *“Embracing esports allows the university to continue attracting top students while providing an innovative pathway for students to flourish academically, socially and professionally,” Matthew J. Wilson, Akron’s president, said in an announcement.* ‘...Top student to flourish academically....’ If that ain’t a crock of feces, I don’t know what is.— August 22, 2018 2:13 p.m.
Larry Lucchino, switch hitter on ballpark subsidies
Ok...this is off topic, but I couldn’t resist because it seems the world is just nuts.... “The University of Akron is dropping 80 academic programs while investing millions into new eSports facilities on the Ohio campus. The school is dropping 10 Ph.D. programs, 33 master’s programs, 20 bachelor’s programs, and 17 associate-degree programs, freeing up resources to build “the largest amount of dedicated esports space of any university in the world to date.” Five inaugural varsity teams will compete this fall in the video games including League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.” When was sitting on your ass, pushing buttons to a video game with predisposed outcome considered sport? If this is a growing trend and not just a passing fad, I foresee bleakness in the not to distant future.— August 21, 2018 10:02 a.m.
Larry Lucchino, switch hitter on ballpark subsidies
Sometimes I feel my formal education was *otiose* when you flex your vocabulary.— August 20, 2018 8:55 p.m.
Larry Lucchino, switch hitter on ballpark subsidies
You’ll get no argument from me some about kids needing exercise whatsoever. However, I believe it’s the ***parents’ responsibility***, not the school’s and certainly not government. Our son loved youth baseball from TeeBall all the way through his varsity high school team, and played summer travel ball too. There were no illusions about pro ball, though two of his close friends play in the minor leagues today. These days, without prompting, he says it’s some of the best childhood memories and he still sees some of his baseball pals. We were fortunate he never got *“hooked”* on mindless video games, or pointless narcissistic social media. We both agree San Diego dodged a bullet when it came to the Chargers, and hundreds of millions that would have been poured down the Spanos drain supporting a mediocre franchise. But I’m just wondering, aren’t we headed in the same direction with the re-development of the stadium site. Won’t the taxpayers end up footing the bill in bond costs if SDSU gets the site?— August 20, 2018 4:09 p.m.
Larry Lucchino, switch hitter on ballpark subsidies
It’s difficult to fault some for following the owner’s instructions (Red Sox) or whichever team he represents. With that said, I disagree with the whole premise that taxpayers, through their representatives approval, should subsidize any sports team. No matter how much or little wealth ownership has. Unfortunately competitive sports are woven very deeply into our culture and at a very young age. In fact, sports ***are*** subsidized by governments who pay for the building and maintenance of recreational fields and other facilities. Worse, rather than camaraderie and fellowship of sports, today it’s driven by the ever growing desire for unimaginable wealth. Today’s professional athletes are paid ridiculous salaries and huge sums of cash for endorsement deals. Such a situation was recently described by an young athlete who stated he’d live on his endorsement earning and pocket his entire thirty million dollar signing bonus. $30 million bonus! For the sake of whoever is paying that kind of money, let hope he’s no *Ryan Leaf*. If taxpayers are willing to spend millions to subsidize multimillionaire owners and players, so they can pay to see them play a game, then it’s difficult to understand and empathize with their whining about dilapidated roads and non existent services.— August 20, 2018 11:49 a.m.
Local home listing prices dropped 20 percent in June
This is an interesting report. In one general report Zillow says there is a price drop, but in a more specific area prices are still rising as also reported by Zillow. Are both reports correct? Are these lower prices a trend or an aberration? When I review home sales in my general neighborhood (10 mile diameter) I see homes remaining on the market longer than in the recent past, but prices climbing slightly in most cases. In a report of recent *under the radar* sales, a growing trend where transactions were kept as quiet as legally possible, sales remain strong. Seems more and more sellers are interested in not blaring out the transactions details of their new found wealth. Anecdotally, Zillow predicts a reasonable 5-8% growth in home prices in my immediate neighborhood over their 2017 values. I expected a lower return of 3-5% which has already been obtained so it may be flat for the remainder of the calendar year. Of course none of this isn’t very meaningful as we have no intention of selling anytime in the foreseeable future.— August 17, 2018 9:01 a.m.
City Auditor heads for the hills of Beverly
This truly is a sad news for our City. Mr. Luna, and his staff, have performed admirably during their tenure as Auditor. They have “set the bar” very high. Luna and his team have kept exposing the waste and fraud that earned San Diego it well deserved negative reputation. Now our do nothing Mayor, and his lackey bootlicking yes men and woman on the Audit Committee, will select a replacement. We ***CANNOT*** go back to the days of obfuscation, waste and abuse of the taxpayer’s treasury. We need an ethical, strong willed, backbone of steel Auditor to fill Luna’s shoes. If the Mayor and his bootlicking lackeys select a meek and mild auditor who will just go along to get along we could find ourselves once again known as the City - Enron by the Sea.— August 16, 2018 9:18 a.m.
City Auditor heads for the hills of Beverly
The idiom “bad apple”as used in the context above, by definition, refers to a person, not an entity.— August 16, 2018 8:50 a.m.