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Archive for September 11th, 2009

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Where the Cynics Aren’t

The Flybottle. I personally am torn between writing a long screed and just wishing everyone a Happy Republican Thanksgiving. Will has a far sweeter disposition and so manages a far more constructive tone.

Friday, September 11th, 2009

One more post on Joe Wilson

By Thoreau
Promoted up from one of my comments downblog:
The correct response to Wilson is not “OMG! He called the emperor a liar!”
The correct response to Wilson is “Dude, you spent 8 years marching behind a man who lied about everything and pissed away the treasury while getting a bunch of people killed, and now we’re [...]

Friday, September 11th, 2009

I’m not ready to make nice

By Thoreau
Greenwald has a post full of awesomeness.  It starts off by saying that there ain’t a damn thing wrong with being disrespectful; critique the disrespectful person for the point he’s making (if it’s wrong), not for daring to diss Our Commander In Chief.
He then goes on to make some observations on what it takes [...]

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Compensation for budget cuts

By Thoreau
I was supposed to teach an advanced elective in optics.  The enrollment was low (only 11 students) so due to budget cuts it was canceled and I was assigned to teach a bunch of freshman labs.  I understand why, and I’m not protesting, but today my chair said that when he was arguing with [...]