Month: January 2014

January 30, 2014 0

Curry Vindaloo

By News Desk

and then TonyLearns shows the other side now But Mosher says Tamino is a(an almost) complete incompetent. Isn’t that a devastating rebuttal? Then I read Judith post of Tamino and arctic temps.

January 30, 2014 0

California Students File Constitutional Challenge to Teacher Firing Practices; Unions are the Child Molester’s Best Friend

By News Desk

Three cheers for a group of nine California students who are fed up with tenure rules that protect not only incompetent teachers, but also sexual predators. Reuters reports California students challenge teacher employment rules in lawsuit . A group of nine California students will challenge employment rules they complain force public schools in the most populous U.S.

January 29, 2014 0

I’m kind of a big deal, in Australia

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.