Terrible administrators love the outrage as icing on the the evaluation process cake. It gives them another tool to use to control the faculty. And not just the adjuncts, since even tenured faculty come up for promotion. And the accreditation agencies in some regions are giving them even more ways to micromanage…

Yup. And, honestly, if they want a “lighter” tone for Flash, they can have him rescuse a cat from a tree or a kid from a fire on the way to something else as the occasional throwaway heroic. That’s always been part of the character.

This is a charter school. They’re getting taxpayer money, and should have to comply with open records laws (even for retaining messages from Slack) just like the public schools would have to in most states. But they don’t.

The only way charters are “more accountable” in most places is that they can fire teachers…

Then you need to go back and read Robinson’s run on Starman if you haven’t already. Great series, arguably better than anything else at the time, and it holds up really, really well. It’s better than most of today’s books.

Anonymous, 3rd-party champerty is extremely problematic when you’ve got billionaires involved. One of those two items - the 3rd-party champerty (perhaps still allowing the attorney to engage in it, for example, but banning someone else from underwriting it) or the anonymity probably needs to go.

If you’re going to…

It’s come out that a number of Disney employees have been asking for fences by the nearby Polynesian Resort because guests were feeding the alligators. Reportedly management has been ignoring them. Apparently. people staying in the new over-the-water bungalows have been the biggest offenders.

The Floridian is only a…

I’m super-dissapointed that I wasn’t able to find a Zuckerberg painting done in the “big eyes” style of Margaret Keane. Were I able to draw better than I can, I’d have my next project. It’s pop art that we need - and deserve.

Peter Thiel’s lawyer is going to sue you for defamation on behalf of the Pokemon.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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Costco is currently carrying nearly identical solar driveway/path lights at $29.99 for a box of 8. We bought two…

Trump’s clearly a Ferengi posing as a Cardassian.

I’m just hoping the food gives him reflux so that he can enjoy the aftertaste of shitty McDonand’s food hours later. The taste of Big Mac and failure.

“Affect” as in “allow them to see what actually happened, which is that a different sport was invented.”

You’re correct that he’s accepting them, but he’s getting shit for campaign contributions, his (and the RNC’s) fundraising is a hot mess right now. He’s loaned money to his own campaign, but he’ll get paid back (or be able to write off the loans) eventually. He’s also reportedly gone out of his way to use Trump-owned…

Actually, it was a little more complicated than that. The movie - which didn’t get shown in the US until May 1979, while the series premered in September ‘78 - was just an edit of the three-episode TV pilot that had already been shot. It was always intended for TV - I suspect Universal decided that they’d make some…

I’ve seldom felt more let down by something I wanted to like. Because it had so many things that could have made it good, but it didn’t pull it off. And I knew that when it didn’t, that was it for a while, if not permanently. If it had actually been worse, I wouldn’t have felt as badly.

I’ve never minded the Hawks (either the original backstory, the silver age Thanagarian backstory, or the post-Zero Hour-post-JSA-cleanup merged backstory), but this version wasn’t great. I’m glad they’re using an earlier-timeperiod Vixen. I really liked Megalyn Echikunwoke in the role, and now they’ve got a way to…

Yup - my thinking about the large vs. small institution is whether or not everything like that gets run by the President early in the process or later after the Title IX and student affairs folks have taken a look at it. I’ve never worked at a large institution.

But at this point - especially after the “Dear…

Well, and that’s an interesting question. Not every lie under oath is perjury. I believe that it has to be relevant to rise to that level. That’s why there’s a different “false declarations” statute in federal law, as well as obstruction as a possible charge.

I work in higher ed. The folks assisting with the President’s email are absolutely supposed to follow up on an email like that if the institutional culture isn’t terrible. Why? First off, you want to do right by your students. But even if that isn’t enough, you follow up because otherwise it can turn into a dumpster…