"Biden said he wants to see college students paid to become teachers, and then paid as much as they would get if they went into a similar private field. "They'd get the same pay as an engineer gets to go in and work as a math teacher, as a science teacher, et cetera," Biden said."

The difference that NO democrat will admit is that engineers get raises if they do a good job, and get paid less if they do a crappy job. Teachers get the union wage no matter how bad they are. Perhaps that is why there is no engineer crsis, but there is an ever present educational crisis?

First, there was Salon's sexist/biased policy of having a BroadSheet, but no DudeSheet. But then you fill BroadSheet with articles like this which are gender neutral? What the heck?

"So maybe that's why the state gets involved in such matters -- like protecting a child from disease, maybe the idea is that communities need to protect children from names that might hurt them in the future."

As if the police state wasn't powerful enough, now the government is policing the names that we give to our children? The government already abuses all of the power that it can get its grubby fingers onto. I can imagine how this governmental power will be abused too.

And now on to the funniest names that I have seen:

Brothers: Lemon Jello and Orange Jello.

This shows that McDonalds could sell carrots. $0.10 worth ought to do it in a french fry box for $1.29.

As a side note: What the heck is this story doing in Broadsheet? Is this a women's issue?

Thanks to wanderlust parents I spent my teenage years in Chicago, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, and Nairobi, but I am raising my children in the same small midwestern college town that I grew up in. The cornfield behind my childhood home used to get carved into a walking maze by the neighborhood kids. Now has become a development full of McMansions. I moved into one of them for a few years, but didn't like it. No trees, and the neighbors were both heavily indebted and entitled. The McMansion dwelling teenagers bore a striking resemblance to Uday and Qusay. One of them, drunk at 3am on a Tuesday, crashed the family Camry into my largest maple tree. So I moved into an older home across the street from a park. I see childhood friends at the park with their children and at the grocery store. The schools have gone froom great to terrible, thanks to Chicago clearing out their public housing into my small town. But that's ok, most townies send their kids to private school anyway. There were poor whites when I was young, and now there are poor blacks. It's all about the same. Crime is still low, and most people smile or wave when you drive by. I still travel a lot for work, and I haven't yet found a place I would rather live.

This is a men's issue. Stay out of it broads!

Or, sinced you seem so intent of making this a central part of Salon, how about a little balance and add a DudeSheet.

Adam Smith's theory of free trade, embodied in his book The Wealth of Nations, does not say what you think it does. Free trade in his world is limited to goods. The analysis is at the Macro scale, between whole countries. There is no immigration policy embodied in that. Adam Smith style free trade does not call for borderlesness in any way. His theories have been extended by others to our current theory of free trade in services. Balgalore, India is the main beneficiary of this extension, and entry level tech jobs here have been the loser.

Many Democrats take issue with the free outsourcing that has already destroyed American manufacturing. Now this outsourcing is being extened to the service sector. The middle class is paying the price. They feel under seige. They are in debt and their wages are down. The Liberal alliance with Labor will ensure continued Liberal resistance to even the more basic free trade issues. Free open borders is suicide, and most Liberals know that. The Professor says that this majority of Liberal Democrats "can in no way be called 'liberal.'"

The Professsor is a living metaphor for the Ivory Tower. Collecting his salary from our tax dollars, and from the huge and growing educational debt industry. Completely out of touch with how his theories will hurt the common man who pays his taxes and takes on debt to get his children educated. I'm not confused about what the Professor is proposing, I am confused as to why anybody would pay to have their kid indoctrinated by a guy like that.

Your ideas are not liberal. They are, in fact, significantly to the left of Marxism. Left of communism, whose made tight borders a hallmark of their regimes.

I know that you think that you have tested your ideas in the marketplace of ideas. You spouted this drivel in one of your classes, and your students didn't fight back. Well guess what? Your students aree with you because you control their grade! Like many in academia, you grade your students on their ideology. That's not the marketplace of ideas, that is you playing power politics.

I am for keeping the prosperity that we have, and perhaps seeking to expand it where we can. This contrasts with your plan for giving it all away.

Your slimy attempt to insinuate racism with the phrase "nasty foreigners" betrays your lack of depth. Intellectual laziness, and an inability to construct a logical rtebuttal on your part does not equal racism on my part.