~ Archive for October 25, 2004 ~

Tibetan Teen Getting into Western Philosophy

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philg - October 25, 2004 @ 2:29 am · Filed under From the Old Server

Picked up a copy of The Onion on the street corner in Manhattan and enjoyed this entry, headline “Tibetan Teen Getting into Western Philosophy”:



LHASA, TIBET—Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is “totally getting into Western philosophy.” “I’ve been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it’s blowing my mind,” Hsu said. “It’s so exotic and exciting, not like all that Buddhist ‘being is desire and desire is suffering’ shit my parents have been cramming down my throat all my life. Most of the kids in my school have never even heard of Hume’s views on objectivity or Locke’s tabula rasa.” Hsu said he hopes to one day make an exodus to north London to visit the birthplace of John Stuart Mill.

Being a real doctor versus “merely a PhD”

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philg - October 25, 2004 @ 1:58 am · Filed under From the Old Server

This article on physician salaries should be emailed to undergrads planning their future and, perhaps more importantly, to any person with a PhD who insists on calling him or herself “doctor”.  It turns out that the average physician in the U.S. makes around $200,000/year after paying malpractice insurance and all other expenses.  The clever docs who specialized in radiology earn a median income of $350,000/year after paying their malpractice insurance premium of $12,000/year.  So next time the pompous PhD signs an email with “Dr.” ask him “Wow, are you making $200,000+/year?  No?  Why not?”


Maybe these are the folks who’ve stripped America’s car dealers of all the minivans…

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