Tag: education

January 20, 2013 0

Mann vs. National Review and CEI pleadings

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.

January 15, 2013 0

Key the extremes to their context

By News Desk

(via Climate Central .) I’m not sure yet what I think of Mark Kleiman’s post about how people always accept their side’s arguments on a position and assume a contrary argument means the arguer is on the other team.  I’m no fan of centrism-worship, or of contrarianism-for-its-own-sake.