A possible reason:   Both MIT and Cal Tech would be far more challenging. However, both have much higher admissions standards than Harvard. And, unlike Harvard (and Yale and etc.), neither MIT nor Cal Tech hands out grades just because you could "get in."

Of course it has limited appeal. Lowbrow entertainment is much less limited, and rarely produces an underrated show that returns to life years after its original demise.   Arrested Development is in the same league as."Futurama," "Star Trek," and "Doctor Who."

"Really? Name them. "   One is the OK governor, Mary Fallin, as interviewed for the PBS Newshour. One is the Moore, OK, mayor, as interviewed for NPR.   "It is absolutely not the place of government to tell a person what to do with their private property unless it affects others directly. "   Any fool can define ...more

Things have been hinky for a long time, and in multiple sectors of the economy.   For example, by 1990 many law firms were hiring new law school graduates for paralegal positions, and at paralegal wages. And yes--with a paralegal's economic and career future.   The growing reality on a global basis is that the "go...more

Technical analysis of equities, and astrology: So many charts with lines and points and connectors.   So little meaningful, specific, or timely correspondence to the world's future outcomes and events.

Several Oklahoma officials have gone on record yesterday and today asserting that it's just not right to mandate that new "Tornado Alley" construction - of houses, of schools, of any structures - include tornado shelters.   No tornado shelters even in the replacements for the grade schools in which 10 kids just suffo...more

The clown posse that is today's "libertarian-conservative" knows little else but to prance about bellowing, "Get yer gummint outta here . . . and send me more money!"

Some of those most opposed to a thing sometimes are possessed of that thing.   I don't know if Dan T. Cathy is gay or not. But no one should be surprised if it turns out that he is.

Out of the mouths of babes . . ..