Street Smarts Versus Book Smarts—Explained!

In business school, I took a couple classes that were taught jointly to both business and law school students. One of those was a class on entertainment law, but it was mostly about music law, also known as how music companies still rape musicians to this day (metaphorically speaking, of course).

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A Video No Right-Thinking Educator or Establishment Politico Wants Your Children To See

"Jimmy Iovine" is the more musically topical choice, but this one has a better beat and a better overall flow. It also reminds me, quite often, of Nelly's "Greed, Hate, Envy." Though it sounds like the songs have a similar message, they are almost opposites, owing, presumably, to different backgrounds and experiences. 

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Solving the Healthcare "Crisis"

Let's skip the wordy preamble, shall we?  I've thrown these ideas out countless times to those who should understand, and I'm always told that I'm impractical.  Then again, I worked with people for several years who thought that new business ideas comprised dredging up the same vomit they spewed two years earlier, and pretending like it was something new under the sun.  So maybe I'm not the impractical one:

My Solution to Our Nation's Education "Dilemma"

This one might actually be short.  Because the solutions are so damn simple.  Here we go (not to be confused with a beer-fetching dog):

1. Abolish the Department of Education.  Seriously, would you want anyone in Washington teaching your children?  And what could they possibly teach them?  Bribery, embezzlement, clandestine sexual relations, blackmail, genocide, chicanery, fraud, misappropriation of funds, whoring, pimping, lying, cheating?  Well, I think you get the idea.

This is from the U.S. Department of Education's homepage:

"ED currently administers a budget of $68.1 billion in discretionary appropriations (including discretionary Pell Grant funding) and operates programs that touch on every area and level of education. The Department's elementary and secondary programs annually serve nearly 16,000 school districts and approximately 49 million students attending more than 98,000 public schools and 28,000 private schools. Department programs also provide grant, loan, and work-study assistance to more than 15 million postsecondary students.

That said, it is important to point out that education in America is primarily a State and local responsibility, and ED's budget is only a small part of both total national education spending and the overall Federal budget [....]."

The Reason Why I Don't Find the Choice Between Politicians to be a "Choice" in the First Place

http://www.scribd.com/doc/110073567/The-2012-Debates-Memorandum-of-Understanding-Between-the-Obama-and-Romney-Campaigns