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[chris_gerrib]

Like the label on the tin says:

1) For-profit colleges don't seem to work: Half – HALF! – of all loan defaults come from the 13% of students at for-profits. From the linked article, "When 20% of your students are graduating compared to 55% across all public universities and nearly two-thirds at privates, you're barely a university."

2) Two newish SF fans (each into SF for a decade or so) review Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Not so much with the liking. (stolen from james_nicoll).

3) John Scalzi waxes wise on Enjoying Problematic Things or, "enjoying works of art by people who aren't very good."

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I've never actually liked The Moon is a Harsh Mistress myself, for many of the same reasons as cited and I'm assuming that I'm significantly older than the reviewers.

A lot of Heinlein's stuff doesn't actually age well, his shorts are generally better.

And let's not discuss 5th Column or whatever it got called in different imprints.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Sixth Column, based on Campbell's "All". "All" is worse.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I find the idea of 'worse' quite hard to wrap my head around frankly.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

To quote Malvina Reynolds:

Chorus:
Do you think you've hit bottom?
Do you think you've hit bottom?
Oh, no.
There's a bottom below.

There's a low below the low you know.
You can't imagine how far you can go down.