The leading edge of America’s economic collapse can be found in the state of Minnesota, where fans of the losing Gophers gas up the SUV and drive across town to the TCF Bank stadium to spend thousands of dollars for a seat overlooking a fiasco.
The citizens of Minnesota — already gouged by the state for the taxes that helped pay for the stadium — make the people who give charity donations to Harvard University, even though it’s got forty billion dollars, look smart.
Read the comments after the article. There are pages and pages of them, and they’re instructive.
Periodic submissions related to chemistry, education, research, academic life, rankling the feckless or anything else of interest to Bill Gleason (aka the Whining Dinosaur, Graffiti Monster, and mere mouthpiece for the education/industrial complex). "Raise that tuition, dig that gravel, buy that Coke, push that credit card, sell that soul..."
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