Pope Francis has described pay too low to allow workers to better themselves as “wage slavery.” This topic has come up on THE Ave before. Taken to its extreme, Washington State now has “Western Governors University” .. a university with no faculty. at the UW A[...]
Archive for December, 2013
December 9th, 2013 - 10:33 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Are we bringing the Walmart Model to the Universities?
December 9th, 2013 - 9:59 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: Who is this?
a. Milton Berle’s wife b. Obama’s grandmother c. My wife’s cousin d. Bibi Netanyahu’s mother e. First transsexual Dane[...]
December 9th, 2013 - 4:49 am § in Misc.
NORTH KOREA: Family Feuds Have Consequences
What The Kim Family’s Youngest Brother is Doing to Korea Yesterday THE Ave reported on the internecine family feud between the 30 year old “Dear Leader” and his family. We wrote of the consequences of family feuds for others. Recently Amnesty International reported on satellit[...]
Racist States: South Carolina Part 2.
Today the Palmetto State celebrates this heritage. The Daughters of the Confederacy run the Confederate Museum in Charleston and the Confederate flag flies over the state’s capital, it is not really surprising. Organizations like The League of the South call for the independence of the old So[...]
December 8th, 2013 - 10:32 pm § in Uncategorized
North Korea: Family feud revises history
North Korea aired a doctored rerun of a TV documentary on Saturday about its leader Kim Jong Un that disappeared the face of Kim’s uncle, the recently disposed Jang Song Thaek. The deposed general’s face was invisible and entire scenes were re-edited to remove him. Makes me wond[...]
Racist States: South Carolina Part 1.
Boeing’s new home: South Carolina (comments based on Dahl and other sources) Boeing’s move to the union free state, South Carolina, needs to be placed in perspective of this state, the state that twice tried and once succeeded in creating a civil war. Hitler in this century would ha[...]
December 8th, 2013 - 12:55 pm § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Why do we call them “student atheletes?”
Esteemed Colleagues, If we wish to begin to change the UW’s climate toward our students who are athletes (and I believe that we should), we should stop calling them “student-athletes.” “Student-athlete” is a term created by the NCAA lawyers in the 1950s in order to av[...]
December 8th, 2013 - 11:46 am § in Misc.
Racism Ain’t Only In South Carolina!
Oh, That Racist Tea Party! The Haters, Hillbillies and Histrionic Doomsayers of Westchester Members of the White Plains Tea Party, the biggest and most active in Westchester, don’t fit the cartoonish stereotypes of maladjusted, gun-toting loners bent on toppling the government. Westchester, 20[...]
December 8th, 2013 - 11:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
While the UW Worries About TA’s Logo, Elsevier Claims Rights to Everything Published in Their Journals
Elsevier is making an effort to shut down Academia.edu. The Academia site is an attempt to allow researchers share their scientific papers freely. Elsevier, of course, makes no original contributions ot Science but has, nuanced thoughts on access to the research. It’s issued requests for thous[...]
Zealot .. a book about Jesus, called the Christ
I INTRODUCING “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” The new book from Reza Aslan From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that calls into question everything we thought we knew about [...]