Op-Ed Archive

  • Economics, A Rant in F Major

    Economics, A Rant in F Major

    Posted on August 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Isn’t money sitting around in giant piles indistinguishable from firewood? Money at rest is money wasted. If you aren’t growing, you’re failing, right? Isn’t that business? So now this guy is telling me that, in order to make rich people richer, I have to BRIBE them with tax cuts and deregulation first? Go fu...

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  • Now at a Middle School Near You: Cash for Grades

    Now at a Middle School Near You: Cash for Grades

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
    For twenty dollars, students can buy twenty test points, to be used ten points at a time, on any two tests. This scheme, suggested by the parent advisory council and endorsed by the principal, is intended to replace last year’s failed chocolate fund-raiser.

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