TenuredVulture wrote:I think this may be interesting to a bunch of you here on this board, though honestly I don't have time to read the whole thing right now.

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.5/ndf_ ... bility.php

Also, there's a discussion of it over on crookedtimber.org.

Properly measured, the high school graduation rate (over the past 30 years) in America has fallen. Over that same period, the real wages of high school graduates have increased relative to those of high school dropouts. These growing wage differentials have increased the economic incentive to graduate from high school. So the reversal in graduation rates is striking and troubling.

NYTimes wrote:Why Hilary Clinton Would Be Strong in 2016 (It's Not Her Favorability Ratings)

"It's a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the 'reduction to the absurd,'" Scalia told Hosie of San Francisco during the question-and-answer period. "If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

Scalia said he is not equating sodomy with murder but drawing a parallel between the bans on both.

TenuredVulture wrote:I just have a hard time getting excited about a Hillary Clinton Presidency.

JFLNYC wrote:I have moral feelings against Scalia. Therefore, he should be banned by law.

Hostess Brands acknowledged for the first time in a news report Monday that the company diverted workers’ pension money for other company uses.

The bankrupt baker told The Wall Street Journal that money taken out of workers’ paychecks, intended for their retirement funds, was used for company operations instead. Hostess, which was under different management at the time the diversions began in August 2011, said it does not know how much money it took.

In November, a judge approved Hostess' plan to pay $1.8 million in bonuses to 19 executives, according to CNBC. Rayburn declined to take a bonus but also avoided a company-wide pay cut that he imposed, Hostess told HuffPost.
Twinkies are unlikely to go extinct, since Hostess is in talks with 110 buyers about its brands. But the snack cake genre may need a revamp, as Americans have become increasingly health- and quality-conscious.