En Fuego
Hope you all had a Happy Halloween! The Boy racked up the loot, and I handed out a metric ton o' candy - the good stuff, too, so there. Also watched 1408 with John Cusak. Meh. I was curious as to how they would translate this Stephen King short story into a film. Worked well with Stand By Me, not so well here. Samuel Jackson's character was the best one in the movie, and he was in it for all of 15 minutes. Sigh.
Sorry that posting is sparse this week, but work is raging out of control. Note to all of you university development types out there - no one cares about departmental awards for alumni. Seriously, I promise. For that matter, no one cares about university awards for alumni, but occasionally it's a slow news day, so they get covered. Do not ask for a news release about these awards. I will tell you "no." If you argue that you're "special" or that the recipient is "special," I will tell you "no" and direct you to a news tips website where you can just go nuts.
In short, I am not in the business of promoting your department. Perhaps you should have thought of that BEFORE you FIRED the person you had hired to promote your department. Have a nice day. Love, BAW.
And I haven't linked the The Fire lately, mainly because it's been the same old, same old. But here's a case that's pretty dang impressive, with talk of "mental footprints" and whatnot. Read the sordid history. Somebody got a bit, erm, overzealous in the student affairs department.
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FIRE doesn't do a lot for me with its "Please, Sir, you're grinding my face into the dirt" approach. There are some real federal felonies involved in this case and the responsible parties need to spend time in a federal prison. FIRE should be trying to put them there.
With FIRE's current approach - if it works at all - the perps won't even lose their serve: doing it the 'nice' way means you'll be doing it again.
People scoff at me when I insist that certain of the Duke faculty consider all white people to be racist and that the so called "Campus Culture Initiative" was an attempt to introduce indoctrination as an official part of the curriculum. Hard to believe that Duke's NOT the natioinal leader in this department.
I was banned from annual mandatory departmental consciousness raising seminars at work because of a proven bad attitude.
The law has its exceptions.
I concur on 1408. I was told I'd get "an evil fucking room." Where was the evil fucking room? Instead I got a bunch of warmed-over therapy-by-ghost. Bah.