Analogies are Not the Point of Sports

• Former football player Fran Tarkenton Gets It Wrong.  Echidne of the Snakes gets the instant replay.

  ...Tarkenton uses the one case where most economists agree that productivity measurement is pretty objective and applies it to one of the cases where productivity measurement is difficult because it is intertwined with what the students do, what they are like to begin with and how the general resources are.
  
  You give a good teacher a very poorly prepared class with lots of problems, you give that same teacher very few resources and then you try to measure the output of that student. See how objective you can get. Alternatively, set up a system like the present one where teachers are rewarded by how well their students pass a particular (and perhaps simplistic) test. Watch the incentives to cheat, watch the demoralizing effect all this has, and watch teachers burn out.

• OpEdNews' Paul Craig Roberts on the end of America (via Mills River Progressive), and yes, Arthur Silber called it.
• Interview with a protester, via Southern Beale.  "You've many a contact/Among the lumberjacks/to get you facts when someone attacks your imagination".