Occupy Gainesville

“I feel for the first time my voice is actually being heard,” Speanburgh says of Occupy Gainesville. “I never really felt like I could speak out and say these things. It took forever for people to say, ‘Wait a minute, this is freakin’ wrong.’ And it really, it made me feel good about myself that … More Occupy Gainesville

Deep Events

In the twenty-four hours between Bobby [Kennedy’s shooting and his death, Congress hurriedly passed a statute— drafted well in advance (like the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of 1964 and the Patriot Act of 2001) — that still further augmented the secret powers given to the Secret Service in the name of protecting presidential candidates.32 This was … More Deep Events

Señoritos

One of the great administrative changes that has taken place is that in my main department, my subgroup is no longer required to come to concensus on each thing any individual wants to do before the faculty at large and the chair will consider approving it. For years this had been the bottleneck, designed to … More Señoritos

On retirement

I think it was Marc Bosquet who pointed out that even if tenured faculty don’t work the way pretenured ones do, you have to consider that tenure is a sort of pension for people who before it, worked for the university for almost nothing during up to ten years of graduate school, and then for … More On retirement

Los republicanos

Here are hilarious clips from the Republican presidential debate, courtesy of Hattie. They did not let Republican candidate Buddy Roemer into this debate. And Roemer, as it turns out, helped to occupy Wall Street. Axé.