(TA News, November 11) In an act of tremendous political courage, the unconventional Donald J. Trump has announced he will nominate Paul Rubens as Attorney General. MAGA, Men of America Great Again, is celebrating” ” The choice of a man, who despite his short size and squeaky voice, ha[...]
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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[...]
Trump Vetts Christie for Veep
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), once a rival to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has emerged as a contender to become Trump’s vice presidential running mate. Christie, who endorsed Trump soon after he ended his own bid for the GOP nomination, is being vetted by those l[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Trumpisms: Has Donald J. Trump become a born-again Christian?
James C. Dobson, one of America’s leading evangelicals, said Mr. Trump had recently come “to accept a relationship with Christ” and was now “a baby Christian.” Dr. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and one of the country’s most prominent social conservatives, gave his account at[...]
FINALLY .. Progress on gun control
New Bill Requires Background Check For Gun Lobbyists Before Purchasing Congressmen A spokesman for the NRA said, “This is truly a slap in the face to those of us…[...]
Astronomers Discover Ninth Planet: President Romney Proposes Mission
Two Caltech astronomers, Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin, were studying the strange orbits of some ice bound objects, oversized hailstones that are part of the dim and dusty Kuiper Belt of trash that includes Pluto. Pluto, the orb that tuned out to be to small to deserve the lofty title o[...]
Egypt Sues Israel for The Ten Plagues
Ahmad al-Gamal, an Egyptian columnist for Egyptian daily Al-Yawm Al-Sabi, is proposing to sue sue the State of Israel for damages caused by the 10 Biblical plagues: “We want compensation for the plagues that were inflicted upon [us] as a result of the curses that the Jews’ ancient forefathers [...]
Reductio ad absurdam: we need to confine pregnant women to assure they do nothing to murder their incubus.
St Thomas Acquinas pioneered the use of “reductio ad absurdam” for theological arguement. So .. if a conceptus .. the cell ball we all begin from from, is a baby, then yes abortion is murder. This leads in directions that some may not like. About 1/3 of all conceptions end in a spontaneo[...]