You know, it’s enough right now that this movement just—first of all, it’s already had some important victories. It has alleviated despair in this country. It has—it has killed apathy. It has changed the conversation in a profound way. Seven, eight weeks ago, all we were listening to was about the debt ceiling and the … More From Michael Moore
This is a semi-authorized guest post by Northern Gaijin, using his comments on another post here. A friend of mine sent me this link claiming that UC Davis chancellor “Chemical” Linda Katehi, whose crackdown on peaceful university students shocked America, played a role in allowing Greece security forces to raid university campuses for the first … More Linda Katehi
What is the mechanism whereby people cannot stand things? Two of my colleagues have complained so much this semester that I, pushed to the wall with exasperation, have told them they seem so miserable, they really ought to go on the market and see whether they can find situations that suit them better. Now at … More More on the mystery of Hispanic men
“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
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
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
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
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.
Now we have accomplished even more this semester. It is truly beyond belief. Axé.
Paul Krugman says the technocrats who dreamed up the Euro are not pragmatists but “boring, cruel Romantics” — Sad to say, things did not work out as promised. But rather than adjusting to reality, those supposed technocrats just doubled down — insisting, for example, that Greece could avoid default through savage austerity, when anyone who … More Krugman: “Boring Cruel Romantics”
