{"id":5696,"date":"2011-06-30T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/30\/links-for-2011-06-30\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:22:45","slug":"links-for-2011-06-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/30\/links-for-2011-06-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2011-06-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X9eriClHWLw&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube &#8211; \u00e2\u0080\u00aaWits with Neil Gaiman, Adam Savage, and Gollum: &#8220;I Will Survive&#8221;\u00e2\u0080\u00ac\u00e2\u0080\u008f<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The Internet is a very, very strange place.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/music\">music<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/movies\">movies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/television\">television<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/yes-college-is-worth-it.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Yes, College is Worth It<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;One way to test the truth of the proposition that college isn&#8217;t worth it is to observe elite behavior. Are applications to Stanford dropping? Is Harvard going begging? Are the Fortune 500 recruiting at public high schools across America?<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t think so.<br \/>\nThe whole enterprise just smells to me like the latest variation on &#8220;let&#8217;s privatize Social Security&#8221; or &#8220;let&#8217;s replace Medicare with vouchers.&#8221; It&#8217;s the wealthy and their worshippers sloughing off any social obligation, basically dropping the ladder behind them. If that weren&#8217;t the case, if they actually believed what they said, I&#8217;d expect to see the best and brightest from Choate and Philips Exeter eschewing college and doing startups or joining the military instead. Um, no.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube &#8211; \u00e2\u0080\u00aaWits with Neil Gaiman, Adam Savage, and Gollum: &#8220;I Will Survive&#8221;\u00e2\u0080\u00ac\u00e2\u0080\u008f The Internet is a very, very strange place. (tags: silly internet video music movies television) Confessions of a Community College Dean: Yes, College is Worth It &#8220;One way to test the truth of the proposition that college isn&#8217;t worth it is to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/06\/30\/links-for-2011-06-30\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2011-06-30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}