Headline of the Day
Steven L. Taylor
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
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The winner, Dave Weigel: We Don’t Need No Education, We Don’t Need No Thought Control.
The context: Santorum’s claims that Obama wants people to go to college so that they can be remade in his image.
(I wish I had thought of that one.)
BTW: the quotes he provides in the piece are quite depressing.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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This is why Dave Weigel is a big-time paid journalist and I’m just a sad little blogger.
The fact that he’s younger than me just makes me want to invite him to my lawn and then ask him to get off of it 🙂
The Wall came out two years before Weigel was born.
@de stijl: Which is why I (or Doug) should have thought of it first!
Steven, broken link in the first sentence.
Here’s my favorite quote from Weigel’s story:
That she thinks that construction jobs are going unfilled at all is astonishing, let alone because of a lack of trained craftsmen. The construction unemployment rate is 17.7%