…and lots of ’em: China Faces a Grad Glut After Boom at Colleges. This can’t end badly. I mean, disaffected intelligentsi have been an unalloyed blessing to, e.g., Russia, Italy, Germany, and the Arab world.

Remember, there’s a reason that the Egyptians jokingly call the Muslim Brotherhood, the Ikhwân al-Muslimîn, the Ikhwân al-Muhendisîn, the Brotherhood of Engineers.

So, if you’re Hu Chin-T’ao* or another of his confrères, do you decide you’d better whip up a couple good little land wars with your neighbors to be able to draft and kill off these potential troublemakers? Or do you send them abroad and hope they find foreign wives who keep them there? Given that you’re already looking at a potential demographic catastrophe due to your cratered birthrates, those old-school solutions aren’t anywhere near as attractive as they used to be, I’ll bet…

*Wade-Giles is the official Chinese romanization system of the Gormogons.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.