I think there is nothing new about this. Lots of people used to fake it. Now they don't bother.
Radical reform of higher education is inevitable:
It now costs more to send two kids to a university than to buy a nice home.
Americans that are satisfied with “national condition” 2nd lowest since 1979
Europe's economic problems with low birth rates
Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs
"I start dreading Christmas from the time the decorations go up in the stores," she says. "It stopped being fun for me, so I'll find out this year if I can do without it altogether. I think it will be a relief. It already is."
The Police Have No Obligation To Protect You. Yes, Really.
State of Denial: How New York May Squander Its Energy Boom
The Year in Review for the American Middle Class
Russia: Fragments of a Defunct State
Someone tell my why we need governors or legislatures or even voters …
Muslim Persecution of Christians
Christians are under fire in the historic Holy Land
China Insolvency Wave Begins As Nation's Biggest Provincal Borrowers "Defer" Loan Payments:
Remember, back in the day, when a bankruptcy was simply called a bankruptcy? Naturally, this was well before ISDA came on the scene and footnoted the living feces out of everything by claiming that a bankruptcy is never a bankruptcy, as long as the creditors agree to 99.999% losses at gunpoint, with electrodes strapped to their testicles, submerged in a tank full of rabid piranhas, it they just sign a piece of paper (preferably in their own blood) saying the vaseline-free gang abuse was consensual. Well, now we learn that as the global insolvency wave finally moves to China, a bankruptcy is now called something even less scary: "deferred loan payments"...
Welcome to Cairostan - Egypt’s radicals eliminating country’s connection to West, but does anyone care?
Bruce wonders whether you've ever seen a Jewish Zebra:

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