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Movie Review: Ninja Assassin

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 27, 2010 @ 5:35 pm Education

First of all, I found the title of the movie to be redundant from the get-go. The action scenes are mostly way over the top. The gore insanely so. Swords and other blades slice through body parts, even cutting men in half at the waist, as if they were hot knives slicing through butter. Ninja [...]

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Taking the Pledge of Liberty and Justice for All Seriously

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché November 17, 2009 @ 1:05 pm Education

A 10-year-old boy is taking a stand for “liberty and justice for all,” refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance until gays and lesbians enjoy equal rights. Good for him. But this will be best achieved by getting the state out of marriage entirely. Let people define marriage how they will. Barring that, the second best option [...]

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Now This is Good Parenting

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché August 29, 2008 @ 8:16 am Education

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Consumer Reports, Hookahs, and Legal Positivism

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 28, 2008 @ 2:23 pm Education

Consumer Reports reports that hookahs are not as healthy as many people seem to think. I’m not surprised. What I find interesting and disturbing is the view about law and the state that is expressed by the CR employee’s kid Daniel at the end of the article. What is this guy teaching his kid, huh? [...]

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College Tuition Inflaters

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 13, 2008 @ 5:41 pm Education

Ever wondered why the cost of college tuition keeps going up and up and up? Well, here’s your answer. Now, go get even and put an end this insanity.

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“The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not.”

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 31, 2008 @ 11:55 pm (Austrian) Economics

I added a new quote to the Great Quotes on the left sidebar. I hope it is not too pretentious of me, as it is one of my own, albeit but a modification of a great Rothbard quote on ignorance of economics. Here they are for comparison: “It is no crime to be ignorant of [...]

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Stupid in America

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 25, 2007 @ 9:04 am Education

It’s not the kids; it’s the education system that’s stupid.

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New Study Ranking University Political Science Departments by Job Placement

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 23, 2007 @ 1:35 pm Education

There’s a new study out in the July 2007 issue (Vol.XL, No.3) of PS: Political Science & Politics, published by the American Political Science Association (APSA). It purports to rank universities by the quantity of quality job placements of the Ph.D.s graduating from their political science departments. 86 schools that awarded at least 30 Ph.D.s [...]

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End of Semester

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 20, 2005 @ 5:40 am Education

Whew! The semester is finally over and I survived intact with three A’s, and most of my students survived too! I finished grading Tuesday and, hopefullly!, finished with fielding questions about final exams and with the begging (and demanding!) for higher grades. My grade distribution turned out pretty skewed towards A’s and B’s, probably because [...]

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Science, Statistics, and Ideology

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché February 12, 2005 @ 1:16 pm (Austrian) Economics

It’s funny… I was told by a professor in my department a while back that my beliefs on economics and political economy amounted to nothing more than ideology. Indeed, my “ideology” (libertarianism) made him, in his own words, uneasy. Well, it was his fault for asking ideologically-laden questions in class in the first place. One [...]

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