The student loan ombudsman at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency created by Elizabeth Warren and now run by Trump officials, resigned in protest today, saying the Trump administration “has turned its back on young people and their financial futures.” In a scathing l[...]
Archive for August, 2018
August 27th, 2018 - 10:16 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
TRADE DEAL: It is in the details!
The details of the Mexico:US Trade agreement: It looks to me as if some good could come out of the Trump admin. Reuters, reports that the agreement with Mexico requires 75% of an automobile’s value to be manufactured in North America, up from NAFTA’s current level of 62.5%. It wo[...]
August 26th, 2018 - 10:01 am § in Donald Trump
Who is that?
Schuyler Schouten, formerly a research assistant to Kissinger’, is special assistant to Trump and associate White House counsel. Mr. Schouten joined the White House from Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he earned $342,693 in salary and bonus. At Kissinger Associates, Mr. Schoulten was focus[...]
August 26th, 2018 - 9:38 am § in Donald Trump
Remembering McCain, just one of America’s great heroes.
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August 25th, 2018 - 11:29 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Adam and Eve’s cousins had a baby!
Evolution’s Holy Grail: 90,000-year-old Hybrid Teenager 90,000-year-old bone from teenage daughter of Neanderthal mother, Denisovan father shows not only that they mixed, but that they apparently did so frequently Ruth Schuster at Haaertz Wednesday, scientists reported in Nature that two[...]
August 25th, 2018 - 5:55 pm § in Politics
Who will replace McCain?
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey now has to appoint an interim senator who will serve until a special election is held in 2020. (The window closed on May 30 for a special election this year.) By law, Ducey can’t appoint himself, and said he won’t. At first, you might expect him to go with a risi[...]
August 24th, 2018 - 10:34 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Running a university like a farm
Farms are good, right? So why shouldn’t we model university governance on farm management? This is the farm, E-I-E-I-O. (Click to enlarge) In theory, the farm is to be managed by a system of shared governance, under which all the animals are supposed to be equal, but in reality s[...]
August 24th, 2018 - 5:59 pm § in Misc.
UW Faculty Panel Declares Administration Made Illegal Changes to the Faculty Code
A jury of faculty hearing my case has now decided that the UW violated the faculty code. A year ago January, I was falsely accused of using words like f—–g n—-r and f-g. An investigation by the UW found no basis for these horrid charges but my Chair used this to do major and likely[...]
August 22nd, 2018 - 11:57 pm § in Misc.
LOCK THEM UP … the employers of illegal immigrants need to go to jail!
Following Trump’s terrible day of Manafort and Cohen convictions, Trump tried to change the subject. The President called out: “You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly, from Mexico and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman,” he said[...]