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January 2019: The pain of winter
Just when I though that the worst of winter was behind us, after the tragic deaths of two long-time friends and another dreary storm,...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Fall 2018: Our jewels
Hard to think of how our daughters could make us any happier. They are disciplined, caring, charming, and industrious. They make me smile...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Fall 2018: The joy of teaching
The most important principle of joy for teaching a business class I learned from my mother, years before I started teaching -- and I...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 9, 20232 min read
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Fall 2018: The peripatetic traveler
Jane combined her sense of service with an even earlier no-fear-of-flying to probably put more miles in the air by the age of 21 than I...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Fall 2018: Marquette memories
I met Dena here. What else need I say? But I will... Marquette moved me from an associate professor to an associate dean, the biggest...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 9, 20231 min read
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Misleading statistics and disinformation inferences at work
February 5, 2023 What exactly does the "unemployment" percent number mean today without a context? I'm not an economist, yet it seems to...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 5, 20233 min read
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What a college degree should require/Is college "worth it"?
Is college worth it? Probably not, as analyzed here and here. A college education, completed at the full "list price" of hundreds if not...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 3, 20233 min read
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Why is there a labor shortage?
February 2, 2023 Sliding into a recession, with significant job losses among tech firms and millions of vacant jobs, primarily at small...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 2, 20231 min read
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Easy equity for rich colleges
Mark Steyn has quipped about rich countries "being rich enough to be this stupid."Yes, elite colleges can be this stupid, rich as they...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 31, 20231 min read
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More Covid policy corruption, collusion and confusion
Per a sister-in-law, when they write the history of Covid, much of it will be explained by billing -- errors and incentives. The...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 27, 20234 min read
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College is not something to DIE for
Equity and equality nonsense. And more here, including this cartoonish nonsense: The new mantra for American universities is DIE, or...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 23, 202310 min read
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Climate Science: What does it say?
Peterson and Lindzen on climate change facts and fraud. 97% Experts agree on man-made climate change? Try 0.3% The “... inspection of a...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 9, 20231 min read
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The death of higher education
January 9, 2023. How DEI is supplanting truth as the mission of American universities. This is a courageous, spot on article that expands...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 9, 20235 min read
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Maggie's Farm 9 January 2023
The very best curator of invaluable critical thinking I have found on the internet. The last link -- a significant critique of the...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 9, 20231 min read
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Sunday 8 January 2022
Musings The same people who claim that January 6 was a domestic terrorist attack are the same who claim that the protracted votes to...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 8, 20232 min read
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Does the USA have the highest homicide rate in the world?
No. Among developed countries, we are not in the top ten, top twenty-five or even the top fifty. Try 64th (not 66th, as claimed) as...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 4, 20231 min read
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Are humans devastating the planet? No.
Paul Ehrlich is best known for being incredibly and repeatedly inaccurate with his environmental predictions, be it temperature, famine,...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 3, 20232 min read
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Fauci fibs
January 3, 2023. And the smug, self-assured and self-serving lies just kept on coming. He had the countenance of a doctor who was telling...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 3, 20235 min read
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Twenty-first century inflation: The exploding cost of services
In my management and leadership classes, students learned that healthcare, education and retirement are the three biggest sectors of the...

Peter Lorenzi
Jan 1, 20231 min read
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Colleges and the collapse of Generation Z
Jonathan Haidt has been an insightful critic of our social malaise, despair and schism, from his position at NYU. Based on this...

Peter Lorenzi
Dec 30, 20221 min read
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