Non-Sequiturs: 08.06.09
* Prestige whores, rejoice! Harvard University is coming out with its own men’s fashion line. [Fashionista]
* Clerquette’s entertaining take on today’s Sotomayor confirmation vote. [Underneath Their Robes]
* A depressing thought: Is business school even less useful than law school? [Adam Smith, Esq.]
* Speaking of law school, if you’re a legal academic — current or aspiring — check out this very interesting post by Professor Paul Horwitz, “On Writing ‘Small.’” [PrawfsBlawg]
* If Facebook offered Shepardizing (or KeyCite, for the youngsters among you). [Courtoons]
* Are the Big Four accounting firms following in the footsteps of Biglaw, by freezing or cutting salaries? [Going Concern]
* Well, being an underpaid accountant beats being an imprisoned one. [Going Concern]
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hello, nice blog
Only a total d-bag wannabe would buy the Harvard Yard clothing collection.
The Prawfsblawg / Paul Horwitz thing IS interesting.
If you're involved in picking law review articles, you should read it too.
Harvard must be desperate for cash......
That Adam Smith Esq. link is a smackdown!
"It's European!"
hello, nice blog
HERE'S a story you could add, Lat:
Obamacare called 'euthanasia bill'
Critic: 'Reflects regime worse than China's one-child policy'
* Under Section 1308, the government will dictate marriage and family therapy as well as mental health services, including the definitions of those treatments.
* It will require counseling as to how many children you should have, and whether you should increase the interval between children.
* Under Section 1401, a "Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research" would be set up, creating a bureaucracy through which federal employees
could determine whether any treatment is "comparatively effective" for any individual based on the cost, likely success and probably the years left in life. In other words, the gov't will decide if it's economically-worthwhile to save your life.
* Under Section 163, the government would be allowed to have real-time access to individuals' finances, including direct access to bank accounts for electronic funds transfers.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105525
9: only a douchebag would cite WND as a reliable source.
Courtoons must pay to be featured here. It is not funny, it has never been funny, and I feel no qualms about predicting that it will never be funny.
Number 9 left out a few things:
1. Everyone will be required to kill a puppy when filling a prescription.
2. All appendectomy scars will be in the shape of Obama's face.
3. Only pedophiles will be allowed to serve as pediatricians.
10, please find the info from #9 on the New York Times for us.... Oh that's right, it doesn't fit the liberal, Obama-worshiping agenda.
9, how is "Under Section 163, the government would be allowed to have real-time access to individuals' finances, including direct access to bank accounts for electronic funds transfers" any different from or any more nefarious than setting up auto debit to pay my AT&T wireless bill?
DUDES IN BROWN FLIP FLOPS!
Two links to the Going Concern site? Really? Is it struggling that much?
Funny how that Adam Smith Esq. link is posted right next to an ad for UMass Amherst's MBA program...
9 needs a course on statutory interpretation.
Also 12, please note the provision in the bill allowing parents to abort their children up to the age of 18. That's in there too, for sure.
Has an MBA EVER been useful? As far as I can tell they don't teach anything and it's all networking and recruitment.
Has an MBA EVER been useful? As far as I can tell they don't teach anything and it's all networking and recruitment.
20/21 - both of those sound pretty good right now.
--laid-off
22 - ditto. If you had a good network - you might have a job. What law school taught you about networking you could have learned in a high school auditorium.
If Facebook had that shephardizing feature, I would never have dated my last two girlfriends.
MBAs do teach useful skills if you're there to learn computational finance. Spending hours a day knee deep in calculus and statistics in order to learn mathematical modeling of markets and investments is much different from doing touchy feely human resouces or organizational leadership courses. Recruiters looking for hard-core quantitative types know this.
What B-school did you go to 25?
26 -- Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon U.
15, what does Clarendon have to do with any of this?