Help Wanted: Slow and Expensive Corporate Accountant.

Chile's President Bachelet proposes to reject neoliberal for-profit educational policies, ending public funding of private schools and providing gratis primary and secondary education for all.

Is Progress in Technology Always Beneficial?

If a new technology will kill 1/10000 of the people who use a product, it's not a big cause of death compared with others. Rather than ban lots of technologies that may kill a small fraction of people, it would be more efficient to check technologies when they get in a position to affect a lot of people, and then require steps to make them safer — much like OHSA.

The Chinese government criticized the US for massive snooping.

Of course, China snoops too, as part of its system of massive censorship.

Both of these governments need to learn to respect human rights.

US university presidents are taking ever-bigger salaries while paying their teachers ever less.