When I've done hiring (in the design field), I usually look at the candidate's book of work and work history. I do look at their education information, though. I've found that in many cases, the folks from the for-profit colleges are often far behind their peers in both actual quality of work and working discipline.

To…

I also work in higher ed, and my opinion is the opposite of your father's. The theory behind for-profit colleges is something I can back, but the practice of them is awful. At least, that's from what I've seen - which is mostly in the realm of art/design.

In theory, they provide education that's without a lot of the…

Stripper recruiters, loans where the funding gets swallowed up before the students see it, and fake diplomas? Hell, I figured the horrendous price gouging, low graduation rates and high loan default rates were enough to stay away from for-profit colleges.

#STLPDPRFAIL

Do they think about what they post, or are they like, using some discount version of the force over there? I remember joking about how that whole situation there was a case study in exactly what not to do in PR. Now, I'm being entirely serious about it.

I mean, even if this is sound advice, the problem is…

Yeah, for fucking real. A real way to keep kids from being shot is to hire and train officers who don't have a history of emotional problems and being released from police departments only 6 months from joining them.

Yeah, and this is a dangerous statement to say, but being falsely accused of rape can really mess up someone's life. Even if fully exonerated, just the charge can follow someone around in their personal and professional lives. Worse yet, if the accusation goes to trial, then there's the months and months of knowing…

Even in the furthest stretch of the imagination, I have trouble getting to the "gang-up, sit-on-the-guy" treatment, much less Garner dying.

Athletics brings attention to a college. Attention brings enrollment, and enrollment becomes students, that become alumni. That's not just donors, but that's also increased economic power for the city and state those alumni stay in.

"Nah, we don't want Jimbo Fisher, who has been killin' it at FSU for years now."

Not getting Fisher was the final blow, I think. You don't look at that coach and say "no" unless you actually hope your team loses.

Yeah, they say that athletics is a window to a university - and it is. It takes the name of a school and brings it all over the country.

I'll say this - when that vet got up and started speaking about how a lot of those players came from all over the place only to be told their efforts are to waste, that shit hit me…

That's the thing - "hey your football program isn't doing too hot." Well, when you're hitting us in the neck every 10 feet, what are you expecting?

Generally speaking, football programs aren't profitable. I hate saying it because I love the game, but yeah, college football is expensive the way it's running right now.

I know some of it is a symptom of increasing competition between the P5 and G5 schools - the better players will often go to the P5 schools, the…

This, every single word.

Illegal ownership is the thing that gets to me, too. The thing about passing a firearms ban in the US is that so many people want to have them (and in many cases, for legal reasons), that ban would end up with the firearms equivalent of Prohibition-era America. It's easier to leave firearms moderately controlled than…

And people wonder why other folks think we need different firearms laws in this country...and I love my guns, but shit, it's hard to defend free ownership when a dude draws a shotgun on someone over football. Fucking, goddamned, football.

Chris Rock's statements on race really stand bolder now with this issue of "proving worth", in addition to articles I've seen about paid OT being something we should institute as a society.

Remember the years before reality shows?

"NO MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING."
"OMG, WHY IS OUR ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SHIT?"

Oh, another PR fail in the STL area. What will they do next?