(TA News, Beijing 8 Feb. 2019) 中国航天局 (The Chinese Space Agency) has released a frightening image taken from the other side of the moon. The ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid, bigger than this year’s Super Bowl Stadium is hurtling towards Earth but the NASA Director is reas[...]
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October 21st, 2018 - 1:00 am § in Uncategorized
Freedom of speech is not an academic value.
Whether it is a department, a college, a dean, a provost, a learned-journal editor, it is the business of the university to silence voices, not to license them indifferently. Like everyone else these days, I’ve been reading and thinking about what’s happening on campuses when invited speakers ar[...]
What is “shared governance?”
Professor: A disturbing story about the influence of the Koch network in higher education This WAPO story is a warning message to all state universities. including our own. The Administration at Arizona Stare University, our sister campus in the PAC 12, has created a “Freedom Center” [...]
OVER ON FACEBOOK, State Senator Reuven Carlyle Made a Mistake
Trying to brag about the UW as a world class academic school, Reuven tried to compare the academic standing of #1 ranked NCAA football team, The Alabama Crimson Tide, to the academic standing our own UW Huskies with a football team at #4. Reuven picked the wrong campus … UA Tuscaloosa is the[...]
October 20th, 2016 - 1:54 pm § in The Ave Scene
ENSORSEMENT: NO on ST3
“If not, there is no “Plan B,” and the Sound Transit board and planners will again have to go back to the drawing board.” Bill Bradburd: Public transit in Seattle and the Puget Sound region has had a fitful history. November’s ballot initiative Prop 1, the $54B Sound Transit 3 (ST3[...]
October 4th, 2016 - 12:16 pm § in Donald Trump, Misc.
TRUMP’s LAWYER SPEAKS OUT “So Donald Trump is my candidate, right? He is NOT!”
I like authenticity, especially as compared to survey-tested or heavily spun. I am prepared to let a candidate say something that I don’t completely agree with and still support him or her. I think the need to be politically correct has gone too far. I also think the media often hypes and slants s[...]
October 4th, 2016 - 12:39 am § in Misc.
Trump is not alone in GOP attitudes toward women.
While GOP stars are demanding Trump step down for his attacks on women, the sexism is deeply embedded in their party. Promises and Covenants By Thomas B. Cotton, The Crimson October 3, 1997 Men are simple creatures. It doesn’t take much to please us. The problem is women. How does an utte[...]
September 19th, 2016 - 7:37 am § in Misc.
You may as well preach to a wall as try to talk to Bernie’s folk.
Sue Donovan FACEBOOK responding to a post on THE-Ave. If Donnie Darko is elected, they’ll claim the election was “rigged” to salve their public face. I would say soothe their consciences, but people who risk a trump presidency have no consciences – they care only about number[...]
July 23rd, 2016 - 9:12 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Iniitiative 123: Xanadu comes to Seattle
Christopher Goodwin Initiative 123 is a plan to build a new viaduct on the site of the existing viaduct and make it into an elevated park from Pier 70 all the way to the stadiums. They are claiming that this will be exactly like New York’s Highline park. In 1980 a rail company gave the […][...]
Capitalism is NOT Trumpism
David Brewster Lawrence Summers on what’s profoundly disturbing about Trump’s Carrier deal, signaling deals-based capitalism. It reminds me of the stadium wars, where sports teams threaten to move (as to Mexico or China) and are rewarded handsomely for staying put (until the next round).[...]