What we read while going undrafted yet again…
- Some follow up on the Tsarnaevs and the Boston bombing: Dzokhar Tsarnaev was charged with the crime and could face the death penalty (though Alan Dershowitz persuasively arguing against it here). But did the Surveillance State work as planned? Should the FBI have listened to Russia more? What happend to the wrongly accused Brown student? Should we, as NYC Mayor Bloomberg suggested, “change our interpretation” of the Constitution? And were drones part of the motivation?
- Speaking of drones, the harrowing testimony of a Yemeni citizen on the effects of drone strikes in his country. This also comes on the heels of Jeremy Scahill’s new book on the drone wars.
- Bradley Manning is not welcome at the SF Gay Pride parade, that alleged bastion of tolerance and freedom.
- To go to grad school or not to go…
- Matt Taibbi on yet another Wall Street scandal. Will this lead to the end of Too Big To Fail banks?
- Everyone loves Winnie Cooper.
- Don’t let the George W. Bush Library fool you into misremembering his legacy.
- Noam Chomsky on civil liberties under President Obama. And George Will weighs in on abridging the Constitution. But Canada can infringe on civil liberties too…
- Prisoners are now reviewing their prisons on Yelp.
No Pun Intended 
Posted by doc on May 3, 2013 at 7:13 PM
If you get scholarship and/or work/study money, go to grad school. The 1 in 4 tenure thing simply points out that most grad students are not focused on the end point. Of course you should want to learn more and do research, but also you should be focused on getting your Ph.D. in a very specific time frame (e.g. 5 years). Bright, ambitious determined grad students almost always end up at tenure track positions (if they choose to teach) and gain tenure if the have good people skills and are productive researchers.