Showing posts with label quote of the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote of the day. Show all posts

11/19/11

Quote Of The Day: Nathan Brown, Nontenured UC Davis Asst. Professor

Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi

Linda P.B. Katehi,

I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching, and service. I am currently a Board Member of the Davis Faculty Association. I have also taken an active role in supporting the student movement to defend public education on our campus and throughout the UC system. In a word: I am the sort of young faculty member, like many of my colleagues, this campus needs. I am an asset to the University of California at Davis.

You are not.
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Read the whole letter via the h/t Nathan Brown, (nontenured) Assistant Professor, UC Davis

12/17/10

Quote Of The Day: Chuck Rhee Cheese Edition

It's like Michelle Rhee scribbled for an hour on a tablecloth at Chuck E Cheese, and then Michael Madigan used the tablecloth as the agenda for this committee.
Tim Furman

8/31/10

Quote Of The Day: Waterworld Edition

Christopher Hitchens on Glenn Beck's rally:
The numbers were impressive enough on their own, but the overall effect was large, vague, moist, and undirected: the Waterworld of white self-pity.

7/24/10

Quote Of The Day: Blasphemy Rocks Edition

So basically, God created men he later had to control by having other men kill the men who he created in the first place all the while knowing that they would do what they did because he is all knowing. And this is all ok, because God has a reason and we shouldn't question it.
Random Facebook comment

Quote Of The Day: Civil Rights = Oppression

If Arne Duncan’s views on equality are evidenced in his actions, it leaves us with a troubling realization. For to understand that for Mr. Duncan to be right in saying that “education is the civil rights issue of this generation,” we must stand shamefaced in admitting that civil rights now demands from equality what we previously could expect only from oppression.
Jim Horn

6/7/10

Quote Of The Day: Sick Man Edition

There was a time, a century ago, when Turkey was known as the sick man of Europe. Today America might be called the psychopath of the planet.
h/t 3QD

3/15/10

Quote Of The Day II: Adam Ash

Rupert Murdoch is a Godzilla-sized propaganda shunt in the shape of a dildo jammed up the interior of humanity, pumping in a daily dose of the trance-inducing drug BOFTRAP -- bend over for the rich and powerful.
--Adam Ash

2/4/10

Quote Of The Day: Robert Reich

Commenting on Chris Dodd's assertion that Wall Street lobbyists are to blame:
Call me old fashioned, but I thought Congress was in charge of passing legislation, not Wall Street.

1/25/10

Quote Of The Day: Doug Noon

When we honor human freedom and dignity in our schools, in our workplaces, and throughout our communities, then corporations might find their rightful place in our service, not the other way around.--Doug Noon

1/20/10

Quote Of The Day: Dan Savage

“The people of Haiti could really use your help. I made a donation at redcross.org . You should, too. And fuck Pat Robertson and his vile, hateful, santorum-spewing mouth.” -Dan Savage

10/21/09

Quote Of The Day: Jay McDonough

From Jay at swimming freestyle regarding our collective rot:
The obvious effects are a fucked up social psyche, full of rage, resentment and frustration with the powerful elite and the shame and desperation that comes with being unable to provide for your loved ones.  It's a recipe for the whole American experiment to rot from the inside out.

6/9/09

Quote Of The Day

Bloomberg is a boring man. This was good for a long time. New York needed boring after Giuliani. But now he's not curatively dull, he's annoyingly dull...
h/t Michael Tomasky

5/3/09

Professional Development And Me

"To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know." — Talleyrand

10/24/08

Quote Of The Day

"You go your whole life desperately clinging to this 'sense of honor' thing, and sure, sometimes you fail, in fact sometimes you fail miserably, but you're pretty much as honorable as the next guy. Then the election comes up towards the end of your life and you do and say literally anything to get elected... AND you lose. If you win, you get a chance to reshape your legacy, people talk about the things a president did during his presidency. But when you lose, that's all anyone's ever going to remember about you: the guy who was a stone cold war hero in his youth and then turned into a two dollar whore to try to win an election. Then he died."
h/t LG&M

10/17/08

Quote Of The Day: Me

I wrote this a month ago about principals. It bears repeating:
This screed by principal Hitch should be looked at as part of the problem in education; professional teachers being reviewed, retained, or fired by folks whose mission it is to foster conformity to a norm not yet affirmed, in a desire to wrest control of education away from those who provide it--teachers!

10/16/08

Quote Of The Day: Yglesias

When John concluded by reflecting on the “long line of McCains” that have served the country, I thought he was finally going to bust out the big guns — “my dad was an admiral, his dad was a Muslim” would, unlike most of what he says, actually true.
What? McCain's grandpappy was a Muslim? Do the research someone and comment!

Update: It's tough being stoopid. I oughtta know!

10/2/08

Quote Of The Day: Palin

I have, one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years who happens to be gay. And I love her dearly. And she is not my “gay friend.” She is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice that I have made. But I am not gonna judge people. And I love America where we are more tolerant than other countries are. And are more accepting of some of these choices that sometimes people want to believe reflects solely on an individual’s values or not. Homosexuality, I am not gonna judge people.
Sarah Palin
That's right; homosexuality is a choice!

Quote Of The Day: McCain II

SCARBOROUGH: Why did these items have to be in this critical bill?

MCCAIN: Well that’s just the way the system is working in Washington and the reason why it’s got to be fixed, and it’s got to be changed. And no matter what the stakes are, you’ve got to stop this by starting to veto bills that come across the president’s desk. … It’s insanity and it’s obscenity, because it’s a waste of taxpayers’ dollars and it goes on, and until we stop it, until we get frankly a president who will say, I’m gonna veto these bills, I’m gonna make the people famous that put them on there, uh, famous.
Yeah. He voted for it, then suggested Bush veto it. What is up with the Old Man?

10/1/08

Quote Of The Day: McCain

I just want to make a comment about the obvious issue and that is the failure of Congress to act yesterday. Its just not acceptable. […] This is just a not acceptable situation. I’m not saying this is the perfect answer. If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be, I would write it a little bit differently.
John McCain

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