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Inside Higher Ed has an article on yet another study of why there aren't more conservatives in academia:
Colleges have been increasingly competing to offer "family friendly" policies -- in the hopes of attracting the best academic talent from a pool of Ph.D.'s that includes both more women than…
I'd almost forgotten Timothy Birdnow. He's the embarrassingly ignorant property manager who claimed to have refuted Darwin, but instead made a whole series of foolish blunders; I pinned him down on one point he'd made, and asked him to address it…which he answered even more foolishly. It was…
Well, he says so himself: This is probably the most provocative hypothesis I have ever (and will ever) advance: The long-term increases in carbon dioxide concentration that have been observed at Mauna Loa since 1958 could be driven more than by the ocean than by mankind's burning of fossil fuels.…
So last night was a blast. The show was held at a place called the Crazy Horse Saloon, and it was just like what you'd expect from a place with that name. It's a redneck bar, the kind of place where men wear cowboy hats without a hint of an attempt at irony. There was even one guy wearing leather…
As long as you're doing Demotivators, there's always the one we keep in the patrol aid station.
I have the company's 1998 calendar. (And 1998 calendars are recyclable in 2009 -- so I can hang it on the wall again.*)
My favorite in that edition is "There's no 'I' in Team, but there is in 'Kiss my butt.'"
*I'm economizing. Instead of buying half-price calendars on Jan 1, I pulled out my 1998 calendars and am reusing them.)
Oh man, there are SO many great Demotivators!
Personal faves:
Sacrifice
Worth
Pretension
Leaders
Dreams
Wishes