Leave it to the Daily Mail to run with some really reprehensible speculation about one of the pilots of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. The New York Times has a much more responsible and less sensational piece on the latest in the investigation.
Chris Cillizza speculates about what would happen if Hillary Clinton doesn’t run for president, but it’s doubtful that he’s come up with anything you didn’t already know.
Westboro Baptist Church lunatic Fred Phelps is reportedly near death. I guess he’ll soon find out if he was right about what God hates.
Nationally, an estimated 400,000 rape kits have gone unprocessed. In Detroit, when they began testing their backlog, they quickly identified more than 100 serial rapists. I think it is amazingly disrespectful to not even try to examine a rape kit to see if the assailant can be identified. Why is this dismissive practice so widespread?
Increasingly, professors have to raise grant money to pay most of their salaries or risk getting fired.
Somebody went on a rant.
For the last few weeks we’ve been running weekend movie reviews from The Reality-Based Community at Ten Miles Square. I hope you like the feature.
Thoughts?
One of the best engineering/physics professors that Virginia Tech has — and possibly has ever had — has been almost fired on a regular basis because he doesn’t bring in the bacon to the degree that other less-than-stellar profs do. It’s sad. The students love him; his GPA’s are significantly higher than other profs, and most people leave his classes learning the material. And VT is a public land-grant college…
If he taught humanities, he’d already be gone.
You won’t be able to get a BA from a state university, with a few showy exceptions like Ann Arbor, in about 20 years.
The legislatures won’t stand for it.
US can’t afford to process the evidence in those rape kits because we have other priorities. Such as big-ass vehicles and weapons for Homeland security and low to no taxes to keep the gazillionaires happy.
And US ships arms to aid fight against Islamist militants in Iraq
Because “freedom” and “mission accomplished.
I guarantee you that if those were white women who had been raped and not poors and browns, that the kits would have been analyzed.
dkos ranting jumped the shark this past week.
Perhaps because cities have to allocate a large part of their budget on agents provocateur trying to entrap political protesters?
That rant was written over two years ago. It could have been written today.
You know, it’s funny. I was leafing through the Book of Micah – I mean, who reads the Book of Micah – and right there in Ch 6, verse 4: “And God shall giveth to Fred Phelps long lived years, so that his wickedness shall increase to fill the land. And then shall the Lord send that motherfucker to hell.”
Wasn’t expecting that.
The worldwide love affair with automobiles and suburbs:
Parisians driven to revolt by car ban in fight against pollution.
And environmentalists think these people will change for pollution they can’t see or smell? Not a chance.
Roads weren’t made for people. They were made for cars. Obviously…
Meanwhile, the sound of heads exploding this morning is that Krugman actually went there.
He said that the politics of the GOP are about race, period.
Of course, that’s true. And, like Krugman’s comments about the Iraq War justifications, maybe 10 years from now it will become conventional wisdom. But for right now most of America is in denial about this fact.