Secondly how dare you to tell the veteran it is his fault for joining the military and getting injured. Did you join the military and try to defend your country? Something tells me the answer to that is NO.

Thirdly the reason the government had to regulate the parking was because when the parking places were originally placed in parking lots there were more normal people in the parking spaces than those who were disabled. Before the fines were placed on the parking spots, I would see people in wheel chairs unable to park because a person too lazy to walk was parked in the disabled parking spot. I am a disabled veteran. If I could walk normal again I would park at the very end of the parking lot on a rainy day just because I could walk. For years I had problems finding a job because employers didn’t want to hire disabled people. I really wish you would go out get a wheel chair and live in it for one week. For one week never use your legs just use your wheel chair and your arms to get around and then read your article again. Unless you have lived in someone elses shoes you can determine what they have gone through.

That’s nonsense. I don’t need to be handicapped to be able to say that initiating aggression against a property owner to force him to provide special services for the handicapped is wrong. I could just as easily use the same fallicious logic disqualify your view, because, after all, you’re biased, being handicapped. Arguments stand on their own, irrelevant of the author who makes them.

I cannot provide you with proof of my story, nor will I provide you with the name of the professor. It would be unfortunate to have his time wasted with moronic requests to dig up old files to check on grade/test questions. Besides, I would not be surprised if this individual was the department head by now anyways.
As for one word answers on exams. There have been and always will be plenty. Especially in those classes where understanding the overall concept is more important than regurgitating numbers and facts. My answer on this exam showed that I understood the free market principles involved. Prior to that exam, we received several quartely tests and quizzes that challenged our more “specific” knowledge on the subject matter. So there!
In any case, whether you believe my story or not, is immaterial to me. I am just happy that this caused such a lively debate. And by the way George; LIGHTEN UP. Go have an ice cream and smile every once in a while.

In regards to my first three or four points. My objective was to plainly state, that if any individual did not experience the stated events, then any individual is simply NOT qualified to even have an opinion worhty of consideration.

I specifically base this on the following.

I have a B.A. degree. It is not in physics.
I am therefore, UNQUALIFIED to having any comment of mine being worthy of consideration.

Regards,

JZ.

There are some advantages to those spaces, though, especially when the tight parking lot is packed and all the handicapped spaces are empty. I use them for 2-point U-turns to avoid 10-point ones. I take my sweet time just in case any self-righteous busybodies are watching. I use them as passenger unloading zones, too, knowing that nobody will need them in the time it takes to do the dropoff.

And btw, George, I have been to college, and am currently taking grad-classes. There are many professors who give credit for one-word answers. It’s called “Yes/No”, “True/False” questions. One professor, an econ professor in micro, gave exams with fill-in-the-boxes answer sheets, where the correct number (as calculated by supply/demand equations) gave 5 points and the incorrect one gave none.

It’s an unconventional approach to be sure, but not so unbelievable that its truthfulness can be reasonably questioned without more incriminating evidence.

George

George

George

Let me see if I understand.

In what suspiciously sounds apocryphal, a message was posted stating that the sender received an “A” grade on an essay test by answering, “Nothing,” to a question about what a new government should legislate about the economy. Presumably the professor in question is very libertarian indeed. (Though I also suspect most libertarians would frown on this manner of grading, as it enables a student to evade the display of both specific knowledge and of reasoning processes.)

Now you want the name of the professor — so you can rat him out to the department chairman?

I wonder what motivates you here: concern for the intellectual integrity of academia, or loathing for free markets?

Considering the general growing decadence of academia, I wonder if there isn’t some tendentious selectivity here. Social “science” classes that are often nothing more than quasi-Marxist rap sessions; “women’s studies” courses where credit is given for volunteering at lesbian “community” centers; lower grading standards for privileged “underprivileged” racial groups; ideological insidership used to gain graduate school admittance and teaching assistantships; ad nauseum.

But you want to crack down on a supposed professor who’s generous to those offering facile free market policy prescriptions.

Spare us the bile. Get a life.

His answer was absolutely and completely correct. Such an answer should be sufficient. Your jumping to conclusions about what kind of exam was given, how many questions were on it, if justification was required for every answer, etc. And what exactly should the chairman of his department be told? That his students are learning absolute economic truth? Knowing that the government shouldn’t intervene in the free market is more important than anything taught in mainstream grad schools on economics.

Please tell us the name of the professor in Arizona who gave you an A for a one-word answer on an econ exam. I’ll gladly send him an e-mail to confirm this and then post his reply on this website. If your story is true, the chairman of the econ department should be told what’s going on in his department. Thanks.

George