College

Universities and College ranking from the Washington Monthly. They rate schools based on …

“their contribution to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country).”

They rank around 250 Universities as well as Liberal Arts Colleges.

Take a look.

College for $99 a Month
. It’s an interesting piece. Those who currently profit from education as we know it will and are doing everything they can to prevent it, because how would they fund their sports teams and libraries if a decent education was cheap, but at some time in the future this will be the way.

Airport News

Sitting around an airport, again.

Chicago is not one of my favorite places, and this week just reinforced that sentiment.

Any agreement hammered out by a massive United Nations climate change conference starting in Indonesia this week would not make sense without the participation of the United States, the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, the U.N.’s climate chief said Sunday.

Delegates from 190 nations will gather on the resort island of Bali on Monday for the largest global warming conference ever, bringing more than 10,000 people together for two weeks of marathon discussions, including Hollywood stars, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, fishermen and drought-stricken farmers.

UN says USA must be part of climate change agreement

Kaka Wins Ballon d’Or Award for World Soccer’s Best Player

Brazil playmaker Kaka, who helped AC Milan win Europe’s elite Champions League last season, today received the Ballon d’Or, or “Golden Ball,” award for the best player in world soccer. The 25-year-old joins countrymen Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Rivaldo in taking the award, which this year is open for a first time to players at clubs outside of Europe. Previously, the winner was known as the European footballer of the year.

My first and only tag.

Following Olivia’s weekend of light labor I do my first, and my last tag.

1. I come from a family of priests. Not something one admits to in this day and age. I have two uncles and a cousin who are priests, and a grandfather who is a deacon in the Catholic church. This is not inclusive of my family history where you would find the line gets longer.

2. I’m agnostic.

3. I have two dogs.

4. I work for a corporation which specializes in sustainable urban development.

5. Besides playing soccer I weight train compulsively.

Soccer and Pants.

 The man who felt he was owed fifty-four million dollars because his pants got lost will now be required to pay the legal fees of the Cleaner’s he sued.

Roy Pearson v. Custom Cleaners, The Verdict

Turns out he was in rather poor shape financially and drowning in credit card debt. The reas0n he sent the pants in to be altered was because he had just recently been appointed to this judgeship, his first employment in some time.

I hope this sets a precedent of some kind. I do not need people like this former judge looking out for my consumer rights.

Plaintiff Gets Nothing in $54M Case of Missing Pants

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Put them in the Rose Bowl, Giants Stadium, Denver or Dallas, and the United States can beat Mexico. Now the trick is doing it at Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium — and finding ways to beat other top teams on the road on a regular basis like, say, Thursday, when the Americans face Argentina in the Copa America in Venezuela. “It’s mentality, simple as that,” said Landon Donovan, whose penalty kick helped rally the Americans to a 2-1 victory in the Gold Cup final Sunday, their first ever come-from-behind win over Mexico.

U.S. hopes to build on win over Mexico