Yeah, so here is what I found on my doorstep Saturday morning. We also received the liver and heart. In fact, they put the heart on top of Mr. Bug’s car.
Definitely a threat, and it is related to my RL job. I have a pretty good idea who my Redneck Don Corleone is, but will [...]
Well, Michigan now has a budget, and the Governor did not use her line item veto to completely destroy Extension. That’s the good news.
But. The Extension budget will still be cut 44%, which is a LOT. Part of the problem is that Extension funding is incredibly complex. Between County, State, and Federal inputs, it’s hard [...]
You might remember that I got in trouble in the past for saying what I thought about some cuts to Michigan’s State Budget in early 2009. And that was NOTHING compared to what’s about to happen.
It appears the state of Michigan is about to lead the nation…in dropping all its Extension Service funding. It [...]
I can’t tell you how much first impressions count when I have a posted position open, and I get calls from candidates. Many of them seem to have missed learning some of the basic rules of job hunting. As a service, I provide them here:
Rule 1: Do your homework.
If the job posting has an address, [...]
Amazing. Under this headline:
“Science still cannot explain why women sleep around”
“A study published today in Science details a series of careful experiments Swedish researchers conducted on mating seed beetles (pictured). They want to find out what the benefits were to females who mated with multiple males….”
Now, as a normal person, you are probably thinking: [...]
My post on blogging anonymously was surprisingly popular, so I thought I would mention this news tidbit: A British policeman was recently outed as the author of the blog Night Jack, a 2009 Orwell Prize award winner for writing excellence in political science.
The Night Jack blog was also hosted here at WordPress, and has now [...]
14.1%.
“Michigan’s jobless rate hit 14.1 percent in May, a near-26 year high, according to data released today by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth .
The U.S. unemployment rate rose by half a percentage point in May, to 9.4 percent.”
BTW, both UofM and MSU are going to raise fall tuition >5%. A [...]
I’m having a very busy week, so how about you go over to Skepchick and check out this post about gendered Legos.
Your head will asplode. GRRRRRR.
Interestingly, this was covered last year at Feministe in a different venue–Sweden.
I’ll also add several other really annoying instances of pink I’ve seen lately–
Pink Chocolate bars so you can “pleasure [...]
MGK recently was musing about the case of an anonymous blogger publicly “outed” by another;
“Psuedonymity is great. Blevins explains most of the cogent reasons why he blogged anonymously (not wanting to frighten students, not wanting to have to deal with family issues, not wanting to danger his tenure) and they’re all entirely reasonable…
The problem with [...]
So, I mentioned before that the First Family is putting in a garden (complete with bee hive!). And, in fact, they plant to make it an organic garden.
That choice has stirred up a whole pot of strange. The first signal was that the MidAmerica CropLife Association sent a letter to the White House that implied [...]
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