If you’ve sought a refined forum to ask if “The Apprentice” project managers should have confessed mistakes before blaming others, the Garden of Forking Paths (gfp.typepad.com) fits the bill. Or log onto University of Texas professor Brian Leiter’s blog (webapp.utexas.edu/blogs/bleiter) to explore Nietzsche, legal realism and veep pick John Edwards. You don’t need a Ph.D. to participate, but don’t fake it: draw on real-life experience to show ivy-tower academics the light.