Monday, January 21, 2013

A walk down memory lane for us old timers. This is worth a look to see how we were way back then.

The 1940s

Sad days and great days. Depression, war and recovery. That decade led us to perhaps one of the finest decades Americans have enjoyed: the 1950s. Then came the 1960s with assassinations, war and corruption, the latter two of which are still with us today.

What will the 2010s bring? It looks like debt, poor economic performance and a fear of addressing those problems properly.

We will see, I guess.

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Best Thing Ever To Emerge from a Celebrity Trip to North Korea

Claudia Rosett has a short, but interesting story on the latest trip to North Korea by liberal gadfly Bill Richardson. It seems that Bill took with him Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and his daughter Sophie.

The important thing about the trip was not any kind of diplomatic breakthrough (there are never any of those from such trips), but what Sophie posted online is a very interesting insight into North Korea. No politics, just kind of a travelogue. See it here:

It might not get weirder than this


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ObamaCare in action.

The Wall Street Journal has a piece on the effects of ObamaCare on colleges, and particularly the adjunct professors who teach there. Seems like the are all having their teaching hours cut so the colleges can avoid the huge cost increases associated with the Affordable Care Act. This will, of coure, cost the professors money by reducing their wages....but they will also have to buy their own insurance or pay the "tax."

This seems like poetic justice to me, since the huge majority of those people voted for Obama and the Democrats, surely thinking they would get even more "free stuff."

Walter Russell Mead has some good comments on this, particularly:

"Partisans of the blue social model like to think of it as a utopian commonwealth; academic adjuncts know the truth, and the revolting treatment of adjuncts by colleges understandably anxious to avoid the high costs of Obamacare should remind us all that the blue social model, especially in decline, is not as benign as its supporters and beneficiaries believe."

It couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.