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In Age of High-Tech, Are Americans Losing Touch with DIY Skills?
Science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein once wrote: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." That's a tall order. Although I can only do some of those things, I approve of the principle. Nowadays, though, we're specializing more. A popular Internet essay is titled: “I Can't Do One-Quarter of the Things My Father Can." Are hands-on skills—building things, fixing things, operating machines and so on—really in decline? I think so. SAT scores provide a record of academic performance, but there's no equivalent archive for tracking handiness. More>>
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Seinfeld’s Kramer Ruins Career With Racial Insults (UPDATED)
Blazing Saddles is the coup de grace in this genre, forcing the audience to decide what it's laughing at. Even Sacha Baron Cohen, dare I say, follows in this same tradition. Jewish humorists have never been "politcally correct." They are strongest, in fact, when they are quite politically incorrect. But Richards' rant doesn't come across in the same ironic tinge as, say, Mel Brooks. In fact, it seems like pure, unironic white supremacist rage. I just went to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute this weekend and I was reminded of the world of 50 years ago, when Emmitt Till was lynched in Mississippi, and white mobs terrorized blacks in Birmingham and Montgomery who dared stand up for the right to eat at white lunch counters or cast votes. What struck me was the absolute rage in the faces of the mobs in Birmingham, or in Oxford, or Tuscaloosa, or Little Rock. More>>
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Employment Outlook:
Even though New Years' media stories applaud the rosy job market prediction for 2005, it is not as promising for professionals as it is for college graduates. Fifty-nine percent of hiring managers expect no change in hiring practices of professionals in 2005, while 10 percent expect a decrease and 24 percent expect to increase. Employers in the southern U.S. predict the greatest increase in hires, according to a Manpower survey of 16,000 employers. Service-type and hourly-wage jobs continue to account for the greatest increase. Of the past three recessions -- dating back to 1981 -- the current recession begun in 1Q01 fails to offer job growth compared with 1981 or 1990. The biggest employment gains come from service-sector jobs; while IT (technology) and manufacturing continue their string of years at net job loss. More>>
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