I'm going to come right out and say it: I don't care how many women or young girls become interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. I don't care for the same reason I don't care how many men go into STEM or how many women become NFL head coaches.
All I care about, and what I think reasonable people everywhere should be working on, is ensuring that the young people in our lives are exposed to as many educational opportunities as possible during there formative years. I hope that every child has an opportunity to do some real work, to see how businesses run and how things are actually made before they make major decisions about how they are going to live their adult lives. I don't want anyone to be discouraged from going into STEM fields, or medicine, or the law. My wish for everyone is to find their passion and pursue it, which is antithetical in many ways to the classroom/factory model of schooling.
A Cascade of Failures
I saw the title of this report cited in Reason Magazine, "A Cascade of Failures: Why Government Fails, and How to Stop It." To me, the meaning of this sentence is wonderfully ambiguous. Most square pro-government types may be inclined to assume that the intention of the report is to provide guidance on how to stop government failures. I prefer to assume that it is aimed at stopping government, period.
Rock the Vote Boat
I thought about going out to vote today. Then I realized that there wouldn't be a "No Thanks, I don't want any government" option, so I stayed home.
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