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Two Tier Social Order

Our universities have become powerful agents of the two-tier social order: the well educated, prosperous and optimistic haves and everyone else.  During the latter half of the twentieth century our colleges and universities fueled a thriving middle class that has since been devastated by job loss to China and India and the widespread selling down [...]

Too Much of a Good Thing

When I put single peanuts on the top fence rail outside my window the squirrels snatch them up immediately.  When I put a whole pile on the fence they become skittish.  They run up then back away then run up and sniff and back away then they proceed to snatch one.  Are all animals afraid [...]