The Kaplan Test Prep Daily has determined that American faculty are overpaid: But college costs have risen faster than inflation for three decades and, at roughly 25 percent of the average household’s income, now strain the budgets of most middle-class families. They impose an unprecedented debt burden on graduates and place college out of reach for […]
Month: March 2012
What a waste of usable muscle. Condolences to the donor’s family, and to the vast majority of humankind. If I thought there were a remote chance my vital organs might wind up sustaining the life
Since 1) I have nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon besides grade 170 essays and 2) we’ve been talking about trolls and trolling of late, I thought, “Scott, you should troll your
This seems appropriate for a Saturday afternoon: Unfortunately, I am spending the day working on a book chapter, but I can still dream.
Shorter Differently phrased Glenn Reynolds: “As the blogosphere’s preeminent gun nut, I’ve been strangely silent about the Martin killing. However, I want to make it clear that this
This is true: Signs that you are dealing with a dingaling: approving use of the terms “brokered convention,” “bully pulpit,” “classical liberal,” or “federali
First, this. Then, this. RK ENTRY, OWNER R64 R32 S16 E8 FF NCG CHAMPION PPR TOTAL PCT 1 jmackin220 1, jmackin220 240 220 240 0 0 0 UNC 880 700 98.8 1 nkschueller 1, nkschueller 220 240 240 0 0 0 Missouri 320 700 98.8 3 n8fleming79 1, n8fleming79 210 200 280 0 0 0 Kentucky 960 690 […]
Good for them.
Because WordPress makes it incredibly difficult to ban you — and because you’re so delightfully stupid it’s often difficult to resist the urge to mock you with gleeful abandon —
Last year, faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago formed a union that combined both tenure-track and adjunct faculty in the same bargaining unit. Seeing a threat to its exploitation of cheap academic labor, the university administration sued. Although the union had won small victories at several points through the legal process, yesterday an Illinois Appeals […]
Before I read the full transcript of Geraldo Rivera’s comments on Trayvon Martin’s murder, I was shocked that someone on FOXNews had acknowledged the existence of white racism. Think of it
I’ve expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the Gehry-designed me