American Higher Education: Failing, Entitlement

American higher education is on life support and not doing particularly well, especially considering how many people post requests like “write my essay for me ” online. We have a growing consensus emerging from industry and academia alike arguing that the institutions are not serving the needs of students. More and more of them consider the option of research paper pay instead of completing the assignments on their own. And clearly from my own experience as well as the experiences shared with me by so many in the last six … Continue reading

Shutdown Reality Check from China

Dear Americans: Today, in quite a rational and well-reasoned statement China argued that other nations would be wise to “de-Americanize” their investments … that is (at least in part) the US dollar is held as a reserve currency for many nations around the world and many nations invest in the US financial system because of … Continue reading

How do you people not get the diplomacy game?!

I’ve been watching the events unfolding with Syria, the US, Russia, the UK, etc. etc. etc. like most people with interest, concern, and a bit of a dubious ‘what the hell?’ kind of initial reaction…. that is up until the moment that President Obama sent the request for action to a Congress that has held … Continue reading

Women are people too, Andy Murray IS the 1st in 77 years….

Dear overzealous feminists (male and female) whose knickers have been in a wad for DAYS now about Virginia Wade’s 1977 Wimbledon win being somehow irrelevant in the promotion of the Andy Murray winning Wimbledon story:  Perhaps American coverage has forgotten the qualifier “of winning the Men’s Championship at Wimbledon” (I don’t know for sure since … Continue reading

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