When the rich and middle class disagree, each wins about half the time.
Turns out that “liquid workers” is now an actual term.
Trump’s anti-semitic supporters.
An on the subject of anti-semites, here is a short but vivid example from an angry liberal.
“Hillary’s campaign chairman recently spoke at a conference on climate change and laid out some pretty fantastic ideas; and there was practically no media coverage of it compared to the frenzy over Donald Trump’s taco salad.” I also can’t believe the insane coverage the stupid tacos got. It’s pathetic.
In a rant where he compared being transgender to pretending to be 65 to get Medicare, Ablow proposed injecting transgender children with hormones corresponding to their gender assigned at birth to “go with nature” and make them “feel more comfortable.” What a vicious, disgusting freak. He is just as monstrous as the creeps who inject healthy children with the opposite sex’s hormones.
A fire that is hidden under a mountain of trash: an ecological disaster we don’t often discuss.
I agree with this blogger completely that nobody should ever adjunct. In spite of terrible financial circumstances, I never even considered adjuncting when I was on the job market. And I believe that nobody should unless they are specifically looking to be lifelong part-timers.
Stories like these make me wonder if there isn’t a covert attempt to create widespread hatred for gay rights through this completely fake defense of them.
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This link on adjunct faculty is troubling to me. I am retiring early in 2017, and I have contemplating teaching an occasional course as an adjunct to keep my skills honed. I do not need the money, and it means I will be able to pick and choose courses that might never have been assigned to me as a regular faculty member. My teaching load has recently been too high for me to do any research, and I do not want to have to work long hours on teaching any longer. This term, I am teaching four classes, two of which are large lectures with more than 100 students. Including grading papers, I am in my office more than 12 hours a day, six days a week. But if I could teach one course every other semester, for example, with no large lectures, I would like it very much.
My question is, if I make myself available that way after retirement am I contributing to the unfortunate plight of the adjuncts who need the work?
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I think you should absolutely do it. Ideally, all or most adjuncting would go to people like you. It will be great for the students, great for you, great for the department. I say, go for it.
The current situation where new PhDs are stuck adjuncting for a decade is not good for anybody. There is no need to contribute to its perpetuation.
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Regarding yesterday and today in Israel:
\ The State of Israel is commemorating on Wednesday the 23,447 IDF soldiers and civilian terror victims who were killed from 1860 to the present, with Memorial Day events lasting until evening time when a torch-lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl launches the Independence Day festivities. \
This evening, in a few hours, celebrations of Israel’s 68th Independence Day will begin. Yesterday evening, we watched Memorial Day ceremony and I also noticed this:
Религия и государство
http://lynx9.livejournal.com/1144251.html
On another topic:
Три урока
Когда рассуждают об уроках Катастрофы и Второй Мировой в целом, о которых так славно поговорил генерал Яир Голан, то очень часто имеется в виду какая-то вариация одного из двух главных уроков.
http://sergeyoho.livejournal.com/129829.html
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Have you read Mark Wolynn’s book? It seems to touch on a lot of the things about intergenerational trauma that you sometimes post about. I started skimming it in the bookstore the other day.
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No, I haven’t. But it sounds worthwhile!
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-11/poultry-workers-in-diapers-as-bathroom-breaks-denied-oxfam-says
“Workers in plants run by the largest U.S. poultry producers are regularly being denied bathroom breaks and as a result some are reduced to wearing diapers while working on the processing line, Oxfam America said in a report Wednesday.
The report cited unnamed workers from Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., Perdue Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. who said that supervisors mock them, ignore requests and threaten punishment or firing. When they can go, they wait in long lines even though they are given limited time, sometimes 10 minutes, according to the report. Some workers have urinated or defecated themselves while working because they can’t hold on any longer, the report said. Some workers “restrict intake of liquids and fluids to dangerous degrees,” Oxfam said.”
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