It’s hard for me to think of too many things that I’ve disagreed with more strongly than this article right here. Titled “The Case Against College Education” and published in Time magazine, Ramesh Ponnuru tries to argue that we’re pushing too many people to college who aren’t ready or fit for it. He says the [...]
Categories: Causes, Personal, Politics, Rants
Tagged: au, college, education, Politics, rebuttal, school, students, time
To begin, I’d like to direct your attention to this post from yesterday over at fivethirtyeight. As usual for them, it’s an excellent post, and Nate Silver makes some excellent points about how, if Democrats can hold on to at least 56 seats in the Senate this November, they might still be in good shape.
Hence, [...]
Categories: Politics
Tagged: congress, filibuster, fivethirtyeight, majority, moderates, natesilver, Politics, senate, teaparty
My latest column in my university’s newspaper is up today, here at The Eagle. This week, I’m focusing on communications and Congress, dealing with their incredible PR crisis and communicating with their constituents. They’ve got a lot of problems–not least their abysmal polling data and poor chances for reelection, on both sides–but I came up [...]
Tagged: bills, column, communications, congress, opengov, pr, questiontime, theeagle
This past Thursday I had the privilege of attending Gibraltar Associates first annual “Social Media Resolutions” event, held here in Washington, D.C. Although I could only stay for the first half of the event, what I witnessed was probably one of the best panels I’ve seen. Not only did I learn far more than I [...]
Categories: DC, Media, Politics, Technology
Tagged: DC, defense, events, facebook, fema, gibraltar, government, networking, panels, socialmedia, state, twitter
