Even PhDs will need folks with lots of different life skills in the Gulch.
There is an old joke that goes: PhDs are people who know more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.

Does anyone ever wonder why there is not, at some point in every zombie story, a massive die-off from starvation? After all, when "the last people on earth" are holed up somewhere while the undead hordes are massing outside, the latter have nothing to eat. They don't each other since they crave brains and have none. So....?

For a true delight and a bit of literary education, see the recent "new classic", "Pride And Prejudice And Zombies". In addition to non-stop well-crafted hilarity, the book probably explains more about Jane Austen than any course or Lit Crit volume ever has. Yes, the author has produce other, similar works ("Sense And Sensibility And Sea Monsters")--just haven't gotten there yet.

I'm not sure what the big deal is about a PHD. I have had one for years. In fact, almost everybody I know has one. Hell, you can't put a fence post in without one. (Post Hole Digger).

Were you taken up into a space ship full of aliens with Ph.D.s also? Did they do science experiments on you?

This kind of alternative science (actually, engineering) might be all we have left in this Cloward-Piven-Thompson world.

Sooo, you have an issue with Phd 's..
I have an issue with individuals who enjoy being asses on my posts and driving away new members to the gulch

Thank you.

http://icedynamo.blogspot.mx/

Quite easy on the eyes...(sorry)

I didn't see a link to her blog. Please post it if you have it as I'd like to read it.

I was enthusiastic and then disappointed. So, my adverse reaction was harsher than my initial response was glowing. I already found her blog from her earlier comments here on another topic.

My first summer job was washing glassware for a cytogenetics lab. Later, on the recommendation of a libertarian scientist, I subscribed to _Industrial Research and Development_ and from there, several others. The point is that I think that I know what is in the little envelope she waved around, but never identified. Perhaps it is just something else that you can buy at the zymurgy store. She never says why mere Dawn dishwashing soap and hot (boiling) water is not enough.

Then, there was the segment shot upside down. I thought that it was going to lead to something cute like pouring upwards ... but it never did. She not only made the mistake, but she did not correct it.

I am a sucker for merit and meritocracy. I expect a Ph.D. to be if not smarter then at least more competent than I am. I seldom confront them directly. Long years ago, an FBI investigation into me included something like this: "... thinks he knows more than his teachers, but has no influence with his peers." Some years later, before I completed any degrees, I was working at White Sands Missile Range, riding in with a young Ph.D. my own age. He said that he was on a project where everyone had a doctorate and it was a relief. "Why?" "I am sick and tired of people with master's degrees always trying to prove that they are just as smart as Ph.D.s. They are just as smart; but I am sick of them always trying to prove it."

So, my silence is never heard, only my trying to prove it. For that, I can only apologize.

See my reply to Zen below.

I don't get why her blog is being criticized. It's only a few days old and has some interesting writing and ideas, IMHO

I want to know how to make antibiotics.

I'm not up on biotech but I am surrounded by family members who are. let's see: 1 micro biology pHd,MD who has her own business taking care of geriatrics in a house call business , 1 Ms biochem MD path at Mayo, 1 pHd bio chem MD path at Mayo, one runs a lab, one administrates at Mayo. Db's father, who passed away a year ago was a pathologist who ran his own lab in western Kansas for 30 years, he rotated as coroner and saw some of the most brutal serial crimes along hwy 70 in the 70s.

Love that definition of zombie!

I promote in here. I am not a cheerleader...there's a pic around here somewhere where I'm on top of a piano. never understood cheerleaders. now you are being an ass. Location, and other PRIORITIES . 10 minute time out for not working and playing well with others ;)

lol. yes, I am as excited as you are. beautiful, smart youth in our ranks...rational...maybe the world is not ending...

She does pitch to preppers. We can only hope for more...

I know! don't you want to know how to make antibiotics though?

I walked past my TV the other day and thought perhaps a documentary about our southern border was perhaps being shown. Found out later it was a movie called "World War Z".

Best show on T.V.

We are already living in the zombie apocalypse. And remember, zombies vote!

zombie = brain dead moocher, eating us alive...