1984
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Safe Spaces
Seems like every WLB in Christendom wants a “safe space” these days. The rich and stupid are doing it with luxury bunkers, while a Texas chapter of the Sons of Martha are taking a more proactive approach. Tips from American Digest and Happy Acres. Appropo of nothing, I’m reminded of this bit of bunker lore: Read more
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Two Reasons to Distrust the Powers That Be
ONE: Irina Sendler TWO: George ♥s Michelle It’s like they’re all just in it for themselves, and screw the little guy. A$$holes. Read more
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Calculus as a Microagression
Yesterday I was cautioned by the recounting of an event that occurred in our College of Business. It seems that a lecturer was explaining a concept that required either averaging or the area under a curve, and resorted to writing an integral on the board, by way of illustration. This was NOT a demonstration of Read more
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The Inside Scoop on Women’s Studies
Toni Airaksinen, a rising junior at Barnard College in Manhattan, gives us all the skinny on what women’s studies is all about. It’s all WLB-iness.* So, if you’re not finding oppression: look harder. The unfortunate consequence of this theory is that oppression will be found everywhere — even where it doesn’t exist. Ashe Schow takes Read more
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Revolution
This is how one starts What those who prefer freedom over submission do have in our favor is the reverse Midas touch of the Left: everything they take over, they turn to shit. Just in case Bledsoe didn’t make himself clear. Update: The Guggenheim provides us a perfect example, a solid gold toilet. Lileks has Read more
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Holy Deconstruction, StatMan, I’m a Fascist!
Briggsy, the Statistician to the Stars, has unearthed a paper revealing that evidence-based medicine* is a fascist enterprise. …the evidence-based movement in the health sciences is outrageously exclusionary and dangerously normative with regards to scientific knowledge. As such, we assert that the evidence-based movement in health sciences constitutes a good example of microfascism at play Read more
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Sex Discrimination in STEM Faculty Hiring
Well, it’s official; a study completed by the Cornell Institute for Women in Science has revealed clear and pervasive sex discrimination in the hiring of university faculty in the STEM fields. Tip from Time Magazine, who observes that many universities have policies that will only make the problem worse. Read more
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Robot Employment Act
As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been working on increasing the amount of online content in my introductory biostatistics course; this is part my plan to convert the course into a hybrid course, one which is at least 50% online. Why does this make me uncomfortable? Tip from the Geek Press. Read more
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I don’t need another lecture from President Dumbass
At least the Crusaders were fighting back against an encroaching Muslim empire. Richard Fernandez sums it up best Christians are the most persecuted religious group on earth today and since the majority of the dead and dying are Egyptians, Ethiopians, Nigerians, Sudanese, Iraqis or Filipinos it is hard to see how Obama or Coates can Read more
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Citizens of the University, Arise!
This latest outbreak of passive-aggressive politically correct gender warfare is absolutely delicious. “Mr.” and “Ms.,” are out, and who knows what is in. While many of the commenting curmudgeons at Instapundit are suggesting replacement honorifics like “Comrade” or “Tovarich,” I think we should dig further back into revolutionary history and adopt the French Revolution’s “Citizen.” Read more
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