I realize my earlier response sounded dismissive. I didn’t mean it to, it was more an attempt at comiseration, and acknoweldging that you’re not the only person having trouble with Kinja. It just sucks as a platform.

That, and the “They say the oceans used to be a mile deep, how do they know? Have they probed a mile down?”. He does know that the water sits on top of the bedrock, right? Like, there would be the surface, and then a mile of water on top of it. *Sigh*

Kinja is being kinja, I didn’t get a notification of your response either. I didn’t see it until I came back to read the comments that had been added to the article since I last read it.

Yeah, after coming back to academia from industry, I think the thing I miss most is the industry emphasis on appropriate workplace behaviour (at least in my industry). I tend not to be the target of sexual harassment much these days (I’m a fat 35 year old on a Uni campus). But, I see high profile faculty behaving in…

This. I realize that it’s refreshing to have a pope who places more emphasis on the pastoral aspects of the church, and communicates with the public in a more humble manner, but it’s still the catholic church. He has made essentially no changes to the doctrine, it’s still as regressive and misogynistc as ever.

The only reason I know that Rush Revere exists is because Worst Bestellers did an episode on one of the books. Spoiler alert, they did not enjoy it.

It does seem low. The CEO of the research institute I work for (~120 people, 2 sites) makes at least that much.

This was the first thing that came to mind for me as well.

Either that, or they go the route they took with the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. “We have no idea why this man, who left a note specifically saying he was going on a rampage because he hated feminists and thought any woman in an engineering program must be a feminist, would do such a thing. Gosh! It’s a…

I’m pretty sure that simply reading those conspiracy theories actually made me dumber.

It’s this kind of bullshit lack of repentence that makes me completely disengange from people who express sympathy for Polanski.

I struggle with this myself. I recognize that Polanski, Allen, etc have probably made some great art. I’m just not interested in seeing it. I just have no interest in the artistic vision or world view of someone who decides that it’s ok to drug and rape a 13 year old girl, and then use the fact that he’s rich and…

I have no words. All I can come up with is a scream of fury and disgust.

I should know better than to try to stealth-read BCO at work, but the WWI line was where I just lost it. I’m sure my co-workers now think I’m nuts.

That makes more sense. I was wondering why he was making the annoucement in CT. I mean, Madison, WI is pretty hostile territory for him (outside of the capitol at least), but it still seemed weird.

Please don’t. We really don’t want or need his undivided attention. The state legislature is doing enough damage without him.

Pretty much.

Their entire “apology” is bizzare and completely meaningless. It’s weirdly passive, and reads like it came out of some sorry/not sorry apology bot

Yep. “But, but NOBEL PRIZE!”, or “But, but BEST SELLING BOOK!” is not actually a meaningful response to being called out for being a bigot.

Someone needs to sit him and Watson and Hunt, and their whole ilk down and explain to them that being accomplished in one field does not actually mean you’re an expert in everything. People will (and should) call you out when you stay stupid, bigoted shit.