Education

This 2006 op-ed from the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/opinion/05chace.html] ought to be required reading for every prospective college student and every politician that makes student loans available: “A Little Learning is an Expensive Thing.” It's William Chace, a former

"I'm Protesting with My Student Loan Money!" Music to my ears: Anger over increasing tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California [http:

College Excesses I read this article over at U.S. News & World Report: Bigger Tuition Bills and Student Loans Coming in 2011 [http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/paying-for-college/2010/02/18/bigger-tuition-bills-and-student-loans-coming-in-2011.html] . It's the same old crap: Tuition rates are increasing faster than the non-rich

"Forbes magazine highlighted, 'College tuition has increased by more than three times the rate of inflation for the last 20 years, despite U.S. wages flat-lining since 2000.' In the past year the Huffington Post broke it down more specifically stating, 'Average tuition at four-year public

Received in an email: > One of my [our] most beloved spiritual fathers and mentors, Benedictine Father Stanley Jaki, died quietly in the company of friends, from complications following an previous major cardiac event, on 7 April 2009, at Clinica de la Conception in Madrid, Spain where he was visiting

The Spring Blitz continues. I'd give details, but suffice to say: When someone asks me if I want to do X or why I didn't attend Y Optional Event, I want to strangle them. I still haven't taken my life, but a bullet to

Well, a black day in my life: My children's parochial school, Holy Angels, is shutting down at the end of this school year [http://www.sturgisjournal.com/articles/2008/04/15/news/doc480573e1865af290539340.txt] . It basically came down to demographics: Not enough white Catholic children in the area