Not sure what to say about this ...

... other than maybe "oh dear" ...

NB: College of DuPage is a public junior college in Illinois.

Hat tip: Dan Black

Happy Days in the Husky nation

Seattle Times coverage here, here, here and here. AP story here.

Wow ... the Huskies were positively "anteneuheiselan" in their play, to use a term coined by my college friend Ken Virta.

I may just watch this one again on ESPN3.

Happy, Happy Holiday Bowl

Washington 19, Nebraska 7

And the defense! Wow.

Well done.

Remodeling teacher education

Apparently, the big new idea in teacher education is teaching teachers how to teach. As with evidence-based medicine, the current big new idea in medicine, one is led to ask "and just what is it that you were doing before?"

Assorted links

1. What statisticians are making these days.

2. Economics via Seinfeld.

3. The relative generosity of Canadians and Americans. I thought everyone knew this?

4. Ohio State: class of the Big 10

5. Public profile rankings of education economists. The scary part is how many people on the list I know. At least one even reads this blog!

Movie: Tangled

I agree with the NYT on this one: best straight-up (i.e. no Pixar) new Disney movie I've seen in quite a long time.

Recommended as a kid's movie.

Forever stamps

The post office is taking the values off of stamps. This is certainly nice for consumers, who will not have to keep track of one and two-cent changes in the price of a first-class stamp. I'm not sure how much, if at all, it will help the post office financially.

This move will provide some minor challenges for whoever does the accounting for the post office, for the same reason that gift certificates and gift cards pose an accounting issue for private firms. They represent a liability but one whose expected cost changes over time.

Be nice, given that the post office continues to lose money, if they would just take away its monopoly and privatize it. They say I'm a dreamer ...