… David Gelernter, who not only got bombed by the Unabomber, but has been banned from teaching at Yale because of his yucky correspondence with best pal Jeffrey Epstein.
Enjoy the pic of his office.
Lots of countries have lousy universities, but Greece is a real scandal, given the nation’s history and cultural significance. Lately it’s been trying this and that – it’s even allowed private universities to operate!
It has also, most recently, legislated against “dormant students,” hundreds of thousands of people who’ve remained enrolled for ten, twenty years while doing absolutely nothing. Fully half of Greek university students retained this status until the government finally decided it was kind of stupid.
So they’re inching along. But it’s a fundamentally corrupt, demoralized system, so good luck.
Tickets have a five-fold rise
Fans must pay a rip-off price
Too ra loo ra loo
Pat a pat a pan
When I pay my FIFA sum
How can anyone be glum
UD stopped watching MSNBC when she realized she’d been an idiot for believing their smug insistence that Trump would never win. So she wasn’t watching when Matthew Dowd, one of their commentators, said Charlie Kirk was responsible for his own demise:
[H]ateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions… You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place…
Dowd has been fired, which is fine, but there’s more where that came from at MSNBC.
We’ve already encountered Spain’s Rafael Luque, who makes an excellent living charging random people all over the world to have their names added to his (bogus) chemistry papers. The currency here is number of references on scientific studies — the more journals your name appears in, the higher your salary, and the higher your university’s institutional ranking. Luque is an important part of “an international network of scientists dedicated to inflating their own prestige through cheating, thus falsifying the rankings of the world’s top universities.”
Yes, yes, he’s been dismissed by his university, had endless papers retracted, and been exposed in the press as a stupendous fraud; but he’s still chugging along. They love him in Saudi Arabia.
Trashy Galveston has enough problems without a yearly plague of plastered Trumpers in Wagoneers. All gunned up and ready to rev, they get in fights, puke and piss on the sand, and crash their Gladiators into other Gladiators.
After the killings, etc., last year, locals have fled, leaving their houses to the hundreds and hundreds of police gathered from all over the region (they’re also looking at the National Guard option). America doesn’t have many (any?) truly ‘police state’ locations, but Galveston during Jeep Weekend really does fit the bill — the very population of the place is wall to wall police. The town has imposed new insanely restrictive rules, is confiscating guns, and has basically promised the revelers that they’re going to try every ruse they can think of to arrest them.
B-but it’s an unsanctioned event, UD!
Yes, Dear Reader, but even if, next year, Galveston officials greet each arriving Jeep owner with a prophylactic spray of tear gas, nothing will deter these patriots. They don’t give a shit about sanctions.
Yes. That’s why no one talks about nuclear disarmament; the problem is violence, not the means of violence.
“While you were purchasing a gun for your son and leaving it unlocked, I was helping her finish her college essays. When you knew the gun was missing, you called the police, knowing it was your son that took it. I was having family call every hospital describing what she looked like. While you were hiding [from the police], I was planning her funeral.“
The negligent parents of a high school mass shooter get 10 – 15 year sentences.
