[Dave] Spence, 53, has a degree in home economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. But the biography on his campaign website originally omitted the word “home” while describing his economics degree …
[Dave] Spence, 53, has a degree in home economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. But the biography on his campaign website originally omitted the word “home” while describing his economics degree …
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January 13th, 2012 at 8:23AM
Well, maybe at least he knows how to cook.
It would be pleasant to have a few people in political office who possess skills other than mouth-running….
January 13th, 2012 at 9:34AM
Maybe he knows how to sew his own flag lapels.
January 13th, 2012 at 12:01PM
Hey, let’s have a little respect for home economics! Fifty years ago, it was downright scientific, at least as scientific as [regular] economics has ever been.
January 13th, 2012 at 4:17PM
Anonymous: I have plenty of respect for it; I was pointing out a general disrespect.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:25AM
In the Ivy League (well, Cornell) this field is now known as Human Ecology – which not only preserves the initials but looks better, somehow, on a campaign website.