The Daily Nebraskan is

absolutely crap this year.  The actual quality of writing is horrible and the reporting is often less than accurate.  While many examples can be provided any weekday, I provide one from today regarding CFA and the allocation of student fees.  First off the headline is completely incorrect.  No allocation actually occurs until the spring semester! The editors assign the headline based on the content of the article and based on the shitty reporting, created an inaccurate headline.  It implies that the current CFA just voted to allocate an amount of funds. When the reporter writes “CFA has designated that $2.44 of each student’s fees,” that designation was from last year’s CFA, no new designation has been made, contrary to what the writer leads the readers and obviously the news editors to believe.  CFA is not easy to report on because it actually requires the reporter to understand the function and action of the committee, the reporters actually have to work in order to report accurately, something most DN reporters have failed to do this year!

Drudge is a frickin headline writer,

not a blogger. He is often characterized as one of the first bloggers but that is simply not the case. He breaks stories via the stories. He writes headlines coded to html links to news stories. A sweet job, but not totally not a blogger. He is an opinion news aggregater. Often times he ignores or misses significant news stories and his news selection is sometimes odd. Anyway, to call him a blogger illustrates one’s own ignorance and archaic grasp of the times.

Educational Regrets

Primarily I regret not learning languages when given the opportunity, specifically:

• Spanish
• Latin
• English

How can I enjoy writing and do so much of it without actually possessing knowledge of proper English grammar? Especially considering my career will be based heavily on writing and understanding the English language. Hell, it’s hard enough to remember that grammar ends with an -ar and not -er. Somehow I do and will continue to succeed, operating with an assumption that if it sounds/looks okay, chances are it is. Latin is not dead. The need to know Spanish these days is almost as obvious as English.

I don’t regret not taking the following (b/c it would have brought down my undergrad GPA) but wish I would have taken:

• International Relations
  • Since my youth I really have not given must interest to what is going on outside our borders. It is incredibly important now of course, but I still find it boring. Signs of early Libertarian principles?

• Economics
  • Knowledge of economics is powerful. I feel pretty broadly educated except for this area. Like politics and law, economics is everywhere – intertwined with daily life.