OMG. This is one of the challenges I didn’t foresee when I became a manager. I’m not sure why I was so naive. Did I think everyone who worked for me would be super-cool folks who liked fluffy bunnies? Duh.
So, The N Word.
I was on a panel for a conference just last week talking about [...]
For April, a list of fools. Some of them I don’t pity, though. That’s not the verb I had in mind.
Lou Dobbs: For chastising Condi Rice when she agreed with Obama that race is still an issue in this country–and choosing to do it by complaining about “these cotton-pickin’ people.”
Sally Kern: A [...]
You know, sometimes I read stuff online that makes me so mad, I just shake:
“Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.
The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation, which runs the forum, briefly closed the site [...]
You know, I really didn’t expect this. Although, given the current political climate, I shouldn’t be surprised:
“A Michigan State University investigation has concluded that two conservative student groups did not violate the university’s anti-discrimination policy.”
You can actually download a copy of the report, minus some of the “exhibits”, from the LSJ website. (Blood pressure [...]
Tenure. There is no word scarier to an academic. The ways in which tenure is awarded are secretive, never written or explicit, and often biased.
At University of Michigan, a woman with a joint appointment in two departments was recommended for tenure in one–and denied tenure by the other.
What were the two departments? Women’s Studies and [...]
I’m being sent away from snowy Michigan to a diversity training conference in the mountains of North Carolina. Sound good?
Well, the irony is that I’m going to be staying at a Franciscan Prayer Center and Monastery. I don’t understand how they can schedule a conference about diversity in a setting that is guaranteed to [...]
Following on the happy news that the speech by racist Jared Taylor would be canceled, the student behind the Young Americans For Freedom group at MSU is stepping down:
“EAST LANSING – Kyle Bristow, the controversial chairman of Michigan State University’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, resigned Sunday as the group’s leader. Under Bristow’s leadership, [...]
As someone who has a long history of marching for causes, I am pretty geeked about having a black man and a white woman running as candidates for president. I also am really annoyed with the huge storm of total BS that has been served up about this historic occurrence.
Exhibit A: New York NOW’s off [...]
Waggle of the antennae to Feministing for the tip:
Feminism is to blame for forcing women go to college.
WTF is going on with college kids in Michigan? This article was in a student newspaper (Michigan Tech), for FSM’s sake. Dig this–it could have been written by a Victorian:
“Men have a couple of basic desires regarding [...]
I thought I would post a link back to a timely essay from Shark-Fu about MLK, Shirley Chisholm, and how she honors them both:
Pondering Nuclear Empowerment
Here’s the documentary that ABB was writing about, BTW. Note that there are free lesson plans and other materials for teachers!
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