[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Too many people think that just being liberal is a marketable skill. And why not? 13 years of public school and 6 years of college tell them that. Then harsh reality hits the semester before graduation and employers tell them "sorry, thanks for applying", IF they do a call-back at all. It's Starbucks and the parent's basement for them (and mom & dad are typically less accommodating the 2nd time around).

[freebilly]

Gee, no guaranteed $120,000/year jobs for puppeteers...?Who woulda thunk it...?

[livius]

Too many people think that just being liberal is a marketable skill.

Well put. Once upon a time, you knew that if you wanted to be an artist, you'd probably spend most of your life working other jobs in order to keep on painting, say, or painting portraits of boring people or doing other artistic grunt work just to stay in the field. And you had very little chance of ever getting popular enough to really strike it rich - and even that happened only after long years of near poverty. But now people feel that society owes them a comfortable living so that they can "follow their bliss," as that weird saying goes. Unfortunately, the money has run out - sorry, kids, you've got to pay for your own bliss.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of engineering and tech jobs, almost all of them paying over $50,000 a year to start, going unfilled all over the country or being filled by young Indians and even Arabs brought here on visas. That's because our colleges produce only a tiny handful of native born engineering or science grads every year, mostly because the kids are so underprepared in lower school that they don't even consider going into those majors. But maybe that's because they had puppetry in school instead of math.

[bjc]

This article reminds me of a Fidel Castro speech. On and on and on it goes, where it stops nobody knows.
As for Master Therrien, my guess is that his folks must be footing bill. A 27 year old goes off to puppet school and expects to get his old job back? Such a sad waste of time.

[101voodoo]

Just what the F*&% kind of a nation do we live in when a person holding a F’n Masters Degree in Puppeteering can’t find a job?

I’m OUTRAGED I tell you, OUTRAGED!!!!

[richardtavor]

This guy proves that they are complete morons. They are incapable of admitting that they made bad choices. Thirty five thousand to become a puppeteer?

[CDFingers]

I could read no more shortly after I figured out the word ‘dufus’ wasn’t going to follow the words ‘puppetry’ and ‘$35,000’.

[NTHockey]

The audacity of the author wasting my time to tell me that these people would rather do nothing than work.

[pabianice]

... masters degree in puppetry... can’t find high-paying job... $35,000 in puttetry loans... it’s the fault of conservatives ... my hands... my hands... clenching into claws... hysterical laughter bubbling in my throat... eyes watering...

[Malone LaVeigh]

Her day-to-day work life is defined by the principles of horizontalism, autonomy and collectivism.

WTF does that mean ... in English? After reading about these self absorbed morons, I don't know if I need a couple of aspirin or a good stiff drink!

[Oatka]

. . . produced a museum’s worth of posters (from the crudely handmade to slicker culture-jamming twists on corporate designs), poetry readings, performance-art happenings, political yoga classes and Situationist spectacles like the one in which an artist dressed in a suit and noose tie rolled up to the New York Stock Exchange in a giant clear plastic bubble to mock the speculative economy’s inevitable pop.

By God, those efforts will REALLY get America out of this hole!

[AZLiberty]

I hadn't heard before of "The Coming Insurrection" -- the actual document, that is. (Apparently I don't pay enough attention to Glenn Beck, perhaps because he only just now replaced Michael Savage in Phoenix.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection.