Saw that Ackman heard a rumor that she won't be fired because Harvard is scared they will be sued.
In any event - maybe its time these hedge funds with classrooms that we call universities should start repaying the college loans of the students they hustled.
Putting Diversity Hires in charge of academic institutions is one thing: the damage they can do is limited to ruining students' careers and bringing shame and dishonor on American higher education. But what happens when, inevitably, inexorably, the Woke miasma of "diversity > ability" infects critical organisations which have life and death consequences? Imagine Christine Gays flying aircraft, trying operate air traffic control, fumbling around in nuclear power stations, and pouring the concrete for a new bridge.
Perhaps our salvation lies in the fact that DEI types aren’t interested in doing real work. They just want to vegetate in academic bureaucracies and nonprofits. The most marginal PFC I knew in the Army was a better soldier that a zero like Claudine Gay could ever be. But she’d never take on a serious job in the real world, would she?
I totally agree with this sentiment, but the flip side is many people who do real work have little to no interest in Claudine Gay either negatively or positively. I know several people who work in nuclear power plants and they are totally disinterested in this story. In fact, they are largely disinterested in the war between Hamas and Israel. To the extent they are interested in the Middle East they are far more interested in the new nuclear power plant being built in the United Arab Emirates than anything in Gaza.
When my twelfth graders plagiarized papers back in the late 1970s, they flunked English.
When my seventh-grade students began writing research papers in the mid 1990s, I told them about my seniors. ("You flunked them?" they whispered, shocked.)
I said that if they breathe into a book it has to be included in their bibliography, and if they get even a nugget of information, it has to be cited. They learned about correct form: ibid., op. cit., and the rest.
I told them about scientists who, having plagiarized papers, were booted out of their jobs.
Now a new generation of students will learn that a plagiarist can stay put if . . . .
Hi Thomas - I was just reading your comments under the Dec 14 Letters From an American in regards to the Ukraine funding. I’m your opposite politically (Liberal Progressive Democrat) but we certainly can agree on something.
You hit the nail on the head when you said Biden screwed up by dithering when Russia was on its heels by not sending the F-16 fighter jets & everything else the Ukrainians needed to finish Russia off & end the damned thing quickly. He allowed Putin’s empty veiled threats to use nukes scare him. I was angry at the time & even more angry now. That dithering was a horrible mistake & cost many more Ukrainian lives & property destruction, not to mention starvation in countries that depend on their wheat.
As pissed as I am about that, I still will never vote for a Republican, since they already have not only stolen SCOTUS seats, but have purchased at least 2 of the justices, perhaps even 4 of them.
The Dobbs decision was horrendous & I knew those last 3 put on the bench were lying to kingdoms come when they sat there & said Roe was established precedent. They should be impeached for lying to the Senate & Thomas should be impeached for taking bribes.
I'm glad we agree on something, anyhow, but I can't allow your slanderous comments regarding the Supreme Court to pass unanswered.
First, there's no such thing as an "established precedent," if by that you mean an immutable decision that can't be reviewed and reversed. We all know how this game was played in the Roe v. Wade context. Democrats pressed conservative nominees to give a pledge that they'd rule a certain way on Roe, which was entirely improper. The nominees gave evasive answers, which was the best they could do. No lies were involved.
As for the wild-eyed charges that various conservative justices are corrupt, "bought & paid for," etc. it's b.s. I note that for all the screaming and foot stomping, Senate Democrats haven't commenced impeachment proceedings against Justice Thomas or anyone else. This leads me to conclude that they have no case. And regarding Thomas in particular, I long ago concluded that the hatred directed against him is due largely to the fact that he's a black man who refuses to toe the progressive line. How dare he, eh?
This kind of thing is why I've come to hold progressives in complete contempt. In their way, they're as bad as Trump: no principles, no scruples, no class.
Did you read that she even plagiarized her acknowledgements?
(By the way--Eliot Cohen is not a leftist. And *certainly* not a "progressive." In fact, he's the original neocon: He co-founded the Project for the New American Century and served in the GW Bush administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen)
Re Cohen, I stand corrected. However, the fact that "The Atlantic"—no bastion of conservatism—published his article is suggestive, I think, of a certain disquiet about Gay on the broad Left.
The Atlantic seems to me a centrist magazine, broadly. Or it would have been back in the days when "right" and "left" meant the things you and I grew up thinking it meant. (I like the Atlantic, which probably indicates that it's centrist. I get *very* impatient with left-leaning publications like the NYT. )
Cohen is more well known in my opinion for being a writer for the Bulwark which a lot of people such as Shay Khatiri think is very left wing especially writers like Tim Miller.
Well, I don’t know. If “The Atlantic” seems centrist that may be because the media as a whole has sidestepped ever farther to the left. Anyhow, my rule of thumb is that any publication portside of “National Review” must a nest of Jacobins, Bolsheviks, and Weather Underground alumni.
Ooh, that’s a nasty, angry man behind the keyboard. Hopefully 2024 will assuage some of the anger.
Ooh, that's a typically frivolous comment from the leftie fever swamps. Hopefully it'll be the last such comment.
Saw that Ackman heard a rumor that she won't be fired because Harvard is scared they will be sued.
In any event - maybe its time these hedge funds with classrooms that we call universities should start repaying the college loans of the students they hustled.
Putting Diversity Hires in charge of academic institutions is one thing: the damage they can do is limited to ruining students' careers and bringing shame and dishonor on American higher education. But what happens when, inevitably, inexorably, the Woke miasma of "diversity > ability" infects critical organisations which have life and death consequences? Imagine Christine Gays flying aircraft, trying operate air traffic control, fumbling around in nuclear power stations, and pouring the concrete for a new bridge.
Perhaps our salvation lies in the fact that DEI types aren’t interested in doing real work. They just want to vegetate in academic bureaucracies and nonprofits. The most marginal PFC I knew in the Army was a better soldier that a zero like Claudine Gay could ever be. But she’d never take on a serious job in the real world, would she?
BTW, Many nuclear power plants DO have DEI initiatives they just tend to be of secondary importance to core safety and operational reliability.
https://www.constellationenergy.com/our-company/what-we-stand-for/values-and-esg-principles.html
I totally agree with this sentiment, but the flip side is many people who do real work have little to no interest in Claudine Gay either negatively or positively. I know several people who work in nuclear power plants and they are totally disinterested in this story. In fact, they are largely disinterested in the war between Hamas and Israel. To the extent they are interested in the Middle East they are far more interested in the new nuclear power plant being built in the United Arab Emirates than anything in Gaza.
Well, to steal a line from (I think) Plato, they may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in them.
When my twelfth graders plagiarized papers back in the late 1970s, they flunked English.
When my seventh-grade students began writing research papers in the mid 1990s, I told them about my seniors. ("You flunked them?" they whispered, shocked.)
I said that if they breathe into a book it has to be included in their bibliography, and if they get even a nugget of information, it has to be cited. They learned about correct form: ibid., op. cit., and the rest.
I told them about scientists who, having plagiarized papers, were booted out of their jobs.
Now a new generation of students will learn that a plagiarist can stay put if . . . .
Hi Thomas - I was just reading your comments under the Dec 14 Letters From an American in regards to the Ukraine funding. I’m your opposite politically (Liberal Progressive Democrat) but we certainly can agree on something.
You hit the nail on the head when you said Biden screwed up by dithering when Russia was on its heels by not sending the F-16 fighter jets & everything else the Ukrainians needed to finish Russia off & end the damned thing quickly. He allowed Putin’s empty veiled threats to use nukes scare him. I was angry at the time & even more angry now. That dithering was a horrible mistake & cost many more Ukrainian lives & property destruction, not to mention starvation in countries that depend on their wheat.
As pissed as I am about that, I still will never vote for a Republican, since they already have not only stolen SCOTUS seats, but have purchased at least 2 of the justices, perhaps even 4 of them.
The Dobbs decision was horrendous & I knew those last 3 put on the bench were lying to kingdoms come when they sat there & said Roe was established precedent. They should be impeached for lying to the Senate & Thomas should be impeached for taking bribes.
I'm glad we agree on something, anyhow, but I can't allow your slanderous comments regarding the Supreme Court to pass unanswered.
First, there's no such thing as an "established precedent," if by that you mean an immutable decision that can't be reviewed and reversed. We all know how this game was played in the Roe v. Wade context. Democrats pressed conservative nominees to give a pledge that they'd rule a certain way on Roe, which was entirely improper. The nominees gave evasive answers, which was the best they could do. No lies were involved.
As for the wild-eyed charges that various conservative justices are corrupt, "bought & paid for," etc. it's b.s. I note that for all the screaming and foot stomping, Senate Democrats haven't commenced impeachment proceedings against Justice Thomas or anyone else. This leads me to conclude that they have no case. And regarding Thomas in particular, I long ago concluded that the hatred directed against him is due largely to the fact that he's a black man who refuses to toe the progressive line. How dare he, eh?
This kind of thing is why I've come to hold progressives in complete contempt. In their way, they're as bad as Trump: no principles, no scruples, no class.
Question. How do you plagiarize acknowledgements? Acknowledge people you actually didn’t work with? I can’t wrap my head around this
Where there's a will there's a way, I suppose...
Did you read that she even plagiarized her acknowledgements?
(By the way--Eliot Cohen is not a leftist. And *certainly* not a "progressive." In fact, he's the original neocon: He co-founded the Project for the New American Century and served in the GW Bush administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_A._Cohen)
Re Cohen, I stand corrected. However, the fact that "The Atlantic"—no bastion of conservatism—published his article is suggestive, I think, of a certain disquiet about Gay on the broad Left.
The Atlantic seems to me a centrist magazine, broadly. Or it would have been back in the days when "right" and "left" meant the things you and I grew up thinking it meant. (I like the Atlantic, which probably indicates that it's centrist. I get *very* impatient with left-leaning publications like the NYT. )
Cohen is more well known in my opinion for being a writer for the Bulwark which a lot of people such as Shay Khatiri think is very left wing especially writers like Tim Miller.
Well, I don’t know. If “The Atlantic” seems centrist that may be because the media as a whole has sidestepped ever farther to the left. Anyhow, my rule of thumb is that any publication portside of “National Review” must a nest of Jacobins, Bolsheviks, and Weather Underground alumni.
Your thumb must be the size of a kielbasa..
And NR is a shadow of the quality writing it used to have, not sure that's a great litmus test.
The WSJ EB- much as I often disagree with their perspective- remains consistent.