If the previous job posting had come out of anywhere but Illinois, I’d think it’s simply a job that’s being reserved for the son of the chair’ s best friend or something like that and they are conducting a fake search. But it’s Illinois. So it’s dead serious. 

I’m a tenured professor with the intellectual output you all know about and I get x2 the salary plus effectively no benefits. So yeah.

People, you got to read this job announcement for a position at a school in Illinois. Extensive discussion is at the link. Please read because the job posting is a thing of beauty. You can deliver it at comedy clubs without changing a word and you’ll slaughter:

University of Illinois-Chicago. 
Visiting Lecturer-German Basic Language Program Director for AY 2017-2018.

The Director will coordinate 14 sections in the blended basic German language sequence (first through fourth semester), supervise and train about 10 teaching assistants, teach three advanced language and culture courses, and participate in departmental events, such as the High School Day.

Qualifications: Candidates must be ABD (PhD preferred), have a strong teaching record, and have a background in Second Language Acquisition or a related field. Native or near-native competency in German is required. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in language program direction, materials development, and computer-mediated learning.

Currently this is a 67% position for $28.000 and benefits are prorated.

Starting date for the TA orientation is August 21, 2017. Classes start August 28, 2017.

It beggars belief how incredibly unprofessional and downright dangerous the police force in this country is. An unarmed, completely peaceful woman who made a 911 call was shot by police who came to respond to her call. Who trains these unhinged maniacs? This is insane. 

A fellow who killed a bunch of cats in California is going to jail for 16 years. 

The law-makers who are preparing the new healthcare bill are going on expensive vacations. 

People who get a kick out of violating boundaries and manifesting aggression (e.g. self-righteous language policers, members of the deranged call-out culture, SJWs, etc) are very good at sniffing out those who will be especially traumatized by this kind of thing. 

They are favorite victims are people who are unaware they deserve to have boundaries and are tortured with guilt for even the tiniest attempts to boundary up against intrusive behavior. 

It would be great if the missives people write to our administration asking for a salary raise and explaining how crucial their work is for higher education did not contain quite as many appalling grammar and spelling mistakes. 

It’s deeply immoral even to discuss whether to give medication to people who overdose or let them just die. It’s impossible to let a person in front of you die for lack of medication and still preserve your humanity. 

This is a rich country. I will never believe it can’t find the money for enough naxolone to save overdosed addicts. Yes, they are addicts and they absolutely 100% choose to stay addicted every single day. What this has to do with whether to save their lives or not is a complete mystery to me. If there is a manual on how to evaluate whether a human being is deserving of meds that will save their life, I surely haven’t read it. 

Far more despicable than the choice to shoot up heroin is the choice to be a self-righteous murderer of the human beings you deem inferior to your entirely virtuous self. 

I don’t care whether babies are born addicted to crack, heroin, nicotine, alcohol, or whatever else. I don’t care whether their so-called mothers are black, white, or green with blue stripes. These women are disgusting, vicious monsters whom I detest. If they can do something thos horrible to a baby, what won’t they do to their children? Which whim of their own won’t they put first? 

I’m appalled by the tone of the linked article. 

This week, the White House decided to make those emails from concerned citizens public through the commission’s new website. But the administration made a big mistake: It didn’t censor any of the personal information — such as names, email addresses, actual addresses, and phone numbers — included in those emails.

I want everybody to keep very quiet right now so that we can hear the uproarious outrage coming from our libertarian, anti-big government, Ayn Randian freedom-lovers. 

I’m sure they are about to have something to say regarding this totalitarian gesture. They’ve got to have at least some mousy little protest ready, right?