Excellent but let's not stop there. All student loans should be abolished.

The selective use of caps sold it. Keep it up.

No. Read a better book.

Fascists are left wing. Now I've heard everything. Good dead god, read a book.

I've got a lot of debt, but wound up finding a unicorn (i.e. a professorship), so I'm fine. What this article doesn't entertain is that of course student debt is never worth it - all education should be provided free of charge.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The…

"Ever so slightly problematic?"

I'll say. Stuff cures *way* more than toothaches.

Alternatively, agitate to make K-PhD absolutely free under the notion that access to education is a basic human right and not something that should land anyone in debt peonage.

Lifehacker: work more! Always more. Never stop working and in fact always be enjoying all the working or you're a deficient person.

Shiny metals are incredibly volatile though good for orthodontia.

This makes sense. Money is only money when a state declares it so.

It makes me a little sad to see the low-wattage thinking in response to this piece. Like, is it really that hard to believe that standards and habits of culture change, and that the advertising industry plays a direct role in that like every other aspect of life?

There is no necessary relationship between the rate of unemployment and inflation. What a childish myth that is.

Le Guin's opposition to capitalism in favor of human liberation is some fertile ground: http://faculty.vassar.edu/stillman/docs/…

The Federation is a slightly militarized communist collective. Ain't nothin' liberal about it.

This piece childishly accepts (uncritically, to boot!) that there is but one method of "critical thinking," and it just so happens to be its ideologically co-opted version. There is nothing in here of what critique or criticism means (both etymologically as well as when attacking intellectual traditions. Critical…

Only one thing gives money value: that it's demanded by the state to pay taxes.

Regardless of the economic argument (which, yikes, many commenters apparently have taken the world's shittiest Econ 101 class - where it's still 1965 and we pretend we know things like the money supply. It's quaint, really), the argument goes beyond that: we need to stop with a politics of pissing on people we think…

My heart swells with pride to see my brother, an escort, putting himself between the women getting their health care and these lunatics. And really, Red River Women's Health deserves a lot of credit, always taking the high road, never engaging these anti-choice people.

"There's an idiot on the field."