Monthly Archive: September 2014

From a Twitter to a Scream

If academic freedom is worth protecting for tenured professors, what about for the non-tenured majority now teaching in universities?

Freddie DeBoer

Holy Christ

Can we all agree that this guy, and anybody who acts like this guy, should never have been in a situation where they had access to either a badge or a gun? Can we...

“Aren’t all Muslims suspect?”

A Fox News “debate” on profiling is a perfect illustration of why the tactic always starts off sounding reasonable — and always ends up sounding like bigotry.

by Tod Kelly

Organizational Responsibility

Do the organizations we are affiliated with have a right to punish us for things we do on the ‘outside’? Mike Dwyer thinks about the dynamics of group affiliations.

Oh, Tennessee

I often get the sense that Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are locked in a never-ending war to decide which of the three is the craziest state in the union. Granted, Florida wins most of the battles, but Tennessee and Texas get in a lot of really good shots. I think Tennessee may have just landed a doozy, though.

Free Book!

My friend Abel Keogh‘s book, Room For Two, is available for free on Amazon Kindle this week. Room for Two is an autobiographical account of Abel picking up the pieces after his first wife’s...