Blast this stupid cliche.

People whose talents and competencies span several areas create new areas of inquiry and they stimulate connections. A criticism often leveled against modern academic inquiry is that of siloization: people retreat into little mutually unintelligible niches and hide there. The need for them will never be obviated. They add elan, brilliance, and lustre to our intellectual world.

America has turned on its schools like a pack of rabid dogs. They elect legislatures that are cutting salaries and benefits. Americans are contemptuous of teachers and think they should just be underpaid babysitters. Schools are not quality-minded organizations; they want to hire on the cheap and to provide an "adequate" educational experience. They feature lousy working conditions and paltry salaries. In many states, there are no dependent health benefits for family members of teachers unless they pay hundreds of dollars a month for them. Yep, teaching is no longer a career. It's a gig you do before going to law or medical school.

Companies are having trouble recruiting programmers at $80K/yr. A typical starting salary for a new teacher is under $40K in a lot of states. Many newer teachers must moonlight to make ends meet in addition to the avalanche of off-hours work that is often required. For these reasons, [you've been chopped] I don't think schools will take up teaching programming on a wide scale. This is a not happening. We have a problem, Houston. And no one has the slightest bit of interest in solving it.

Entirely correct.

America has tolerated too many belligerent cyberattacks from China and Russia. It is time to draw on the computing talent in this country to create a counterinsurgency against these agents and to deal with them straight-on. Enough.

Precisely! Aren't the C++ arabesques tortured, opaque and disgusting??

C++ is like a house that has gone through many additions. It has become grotesquely verbose. It is riddled with awful constructs like dynamic cast and "casting away constness." I still like C a lot. It is small, fast, smart and, sometmes, merciless. But that's OK. It's OO cousin has become a steatopygean monster.

I work in a school. When a term or a year closes, I do a big deletion of email that becomes moot at the end of that term or school year. A year-end cleanout often ends up with my inbox being chopped about 75%. If you have frequent senders who send mails with temporary topicality, you can sort by sender and get rid of their older mails.

Why don't we hire chimpanzees to do experimental brain surgery? Same reason you don't ask Cruz to do this job.

Yet another tiresome example of the first class pig also known as Tyrannosaurus Executivus Capitus Vugaris. The greed of this disgusting species is breathtaking.

If wandering into a neighborhood means you are likely to get car-jacked or to have your skull caved in and you wallet taken, someone warning you not to go there is doing a service. If the local residents don't like the opprobrium, they can fix the problem. There is no right to behave like an animal and expect others to put up with it.

Shakespeare? Boring?? What?

Every god-damned week yet another contradictory finding comes out about health or nutrition by yet some other tiresome wowser. Here is my message wowsers: BUZZ OFF.

This is exactly right. The American business establishment has been busting down wages furiously since the '70s. This accounts for a big chunk of the huge wealth transfer to the "top 1%". Business has used illegal immigrants from the third world to lower the wages of semi and unskilled workers to very low levels in real terms. They do the same thing by hiring people from India and Russia on H1Bs to lower the wages of tech workers. This is a naked scheme of exploitation that has been going on for a very long time. It is abetted by both political parties; said parties are amply lubricated for their troubles.

This .... from the arrantly anti-intellectual knownothing far-right republicans? The foolishness of Santorum's gibberings has me gasping for air.