Yale built an enormous School of Management building. This project was, of course, a lot more urgent than trying to make sure that Yale undergrads actually get to talk to a real professor at least once in their entire college career.
“An East Tennessee woman convicted of child neglect in her teenage daughter’s cancer death is asking the state Supreme Court to declare that she is innocent because she relied on prayer to heal the girl. Jacqueline Crank was sentenced to unsupervised probation after her 15-year-old daughter died of Ewing’s sarcoma in 2002.” Yet another indication that children are not people. I’m horrified that we still consider it not really a crime for parents to eat their children.
“My conclusion is that, once we add “get good student evaluations” to the mix of requirements for our country’s teachers, we are asking for them to conform to their students’ wishes, which aren’t always good. Many of the students in this country don’t like doing homework (in fact most!). Only some of them like to be challenged to think outside their comfort zone. We think teachers should do those things, but by asking them to get good student evaluations we might be preventing them from doing those things.” I have no idea how one can despise students this way and still claim to be an effective teacher.
“In the last few years, he reports, “scientists have begun to think that procrastination might have less to do with time than emotion. Procrastination ‘really has nothing to do with time-management,’” Thompson quotes Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University, as saying.” This is why I keep repeating that there is no such thing as laziness. What we call laziness is, in reality, a very traumatized psyche.
“Corruption and the resulting government weakness and incompetence are the core reasons Ukraine is in trouble today. If Ukraine had managed to build a strong economy and effective government in the 25 years of independence since 1990, Vladimir Putin would have no hope of breaking up the country.” Putin still doesn’t have a hope of “breaking up the country.” The so-called East vs West division in Ukraine is a myth concocted in the Kremlin and joyfully embraced by brainless Western journalists who are too lazy to research anything before publishing.
“It is true that as a small child I was very ashamed of being such a deficient and also inadvertently mean person. I was afraid of being thrown out on the street if I made any further errors at all, or if I did not manage to function entirely at the service and for the pleasure of my caregiver. I knew that nobody else would put up with me, and my death on the street would be long and painful. I was willing to give a great deal of myself in exchange for avoiding that.” Hello, sister. I’ve had this exact same experience. Did we grow up together by any chance?
“The Obama administration this week declassified papers, after 45 years of top-secret status, documenting contacts between Jerusalem and Washington over American agreement to the existence of an Israeli nuclear option.” Gosh, what a huge surprise.
“Sanctions will have no short-term impact on Russian behavior at this point. Vaunted Western “soft power” has been run over by Russian tanks. The decision for war has been made in Moscow, and it will be prosecuted until Putin achieves his objectives or the cost — rising numbers of Russian dead — becomes politically prohibitive. . . If the West wants to prevent more Russian aggression and save Ukraine from further Kremlin depradations, it must offer Kyiv armaments, logistics, training, and above all intelligence support without delay. Nothing else will cause Moscow to back down.” Putin reads “soft power” as simply “soft.” It is high time somebody understood that.
Take this test to find out which Yiddish word describes you. Apparently, I’m a kvetcher.
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