You make a lot of good points. Certainly if you major in art history, you will face an uphill battle if you want to put your degree to use in the field of art history.

However, the article wasn't about the problems with majoring in esoteric subjects. The article was about the high cost of college education. One of Benfer's siblings became a computer programmer -- presumably after majoring in computer engineering or EE or something along those lines -- and still hasn't paid of the loans. The problem is that even if you major in something lucrative, you will likely spend over a decade paying off your loans. I have no real regrets about law, but when my last payment is made I will have spent 20 years paying loans.

But who knows? Maybe that's a good thing. Fosters responsibility, forces people to take jobs they wouldn't otherwise want to take but are useful to society, keeps educated people from becoming revolutionaries, etc.

"Was there an incentive to lie? For example, many men will claim to have had sex when, if fact, they didn't. Men act macho for a reason, usually because they're trying to live up to cultural expections...expectations reinforced by half the population (females)."

If it were true that South African men lied about rape, saying they committed rape when they hadn't, in order to live up to cultural expectations of masculinity, wouldn't that in itself be seriously fucked up?

Also, re: "Odd, too, that the raped men aren't given more coverage."

One of the four paragraphs in the post concerned this issue. Perhaps you didn't read the post all the way through?

I've always felt that the conspiracy theory based on the argument that the WTC towers fell at free fall speed would be much more persuasive if the towers had actually fallen at free fall speed, and not at a slower speed. However, when given a choice between a theory held by the sorts of people who believe that the Rothschilds, Bohemian Grove and CFR secretly rule the world, and my lying eyes (and stopwatch), I'll stick with my lying eyes.

Of course . . . if my stopwatch is Swiss, and the Swiss run banks, and banks are owned by Zionists, and Zionists wanted the US to invade Iraq, then can I trust my stopwatch? Oh noes!1!

1) Raising taxes

2) Cutting spending

California has a $20B+ budget deficit and cannot print money, so California has to cut a lot of spending and raise some taxes. The two things you shouldn't do in a recession, we have no choice but to do. Yeah, we're screwed. On the positive side, I suppose, the worse California is, the less illegal immigrants will want to live here.

"I don't know HOW they get it, I assume a combination of stolen identities and a kind of "don't ask don't tell" mentality in the welfare system, at least in sanctuary cities.

Add to that all the regular Americans who abuse the welfare system, and you've probably made up at least half of CA's deficit right there."

You should have more faith in your social service workers, or at least count on the laziness and unaccountability of government workers. I did my 1L summer at Public Counsel in LA, working their Homelessness Prevention Project. A couple times a week we would go to LA county social service offices and advocate on behalf of people who were wrongfully denied benefits. Now, not everyone was wrongfully denied benefits. Lots of people had no problems and sometimes benefits weren't wrongfully denied. But the workers showed very little desire to process applications and little desire to ensure that their decisions to deny benefits were appropriate. As for that sanctuary city stuff, I was at offices in heavily Latino neighborhoods, like the office across the street from Lafayette Park, and never saw a known illegal to get benefits, unless you want to assume that everyone speaking Spanish was illegal.

Insurance fraud? Doubtful. I had a client spend nearly $100,000 in legal fees from claims investigation to appeal to fight a $10,000 fraudulent claim, mostly for the principle of the matter! If the policyholders had committed insurance fraud, the carriers would have sniffed it out, even if they went broke doing so. Still, I like your thinking -- you should do insurance work.

That is why O'Hehir is awesome

"The United States remains a center-right country composed of people who believe in center-right values, like family, hard work and honesty."

So family, hard work and honesty are "center-right" values? Seriously, get over yourself.

Obama loves the dictatorships? The Left loves the dictatorships? 'Cause, you know, freedom loving guys like Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes never cozied up to dictatorships when it was politically expedient or strategically useful.

Have we considered the possibility that DeMint is simply playing a practical joke on us? His plan cannot be serious. The only thing I can think of is that his plan is a satirical take on universal healthcare, a kind of reductio ad absurdum attack on the very concept of a federal plan to deal with health insurance.

He can't be that stupid, right?

"Supreme Court justices make $208k/year. Any one of them could easily make 5x that (or more, Roberts was probably making 15x that) in private practice. Nobody takes the Supreme Court job for the money - it's a major personal financial sacrifice.

-- cestmoi123"

As a comparison, first year associates at Skadden Arps' New York office make $160k and first year associates at Wachtell make $165,000. Those starting salaries are typical at that level. I suppose, however, that if you make wild accusations of corruption without a shred of evidence, then you'll just believe anything you want.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail is what you do with your paramour.

She's not saying what you think she's saying.