Potpourri
- It is increasingly difficult to make scientific discoveries. And this: “the days of the lone hero scientist are vanishing.” The Boston Globe’s ideas section is really good.
- Dept. of Blame the Readers, Not the Media: “Exclusive 2-year reporting project on nat sec drops + what’s WaPo #1 most read? Palin coining word refudiate. TSA tops most e-mailed tho.” [Via TheGarance] UPDATE: Maybe not!
- Since my previous posts on the Illinois adjunct controversy generated some debate in comments, here is a defense of this professor from the National Association of Scholars. I note that he also has support — at least for some sort of further due process — from the AAUP.
- I am embarrassed to admit how much I laughed at this. [Via Kids Prefer Cheese]
Finally, David Frum is a sensible man:
The editors of The New York Times this weekend invited a number of people who have worked in politics to offer Obama suggestions as to how to turn things around. You always read a lot of ingenious offerings in these symposiums, but the true answer is not ingenious at all.
Deliver prosperity, create jobs, and raise incomes; avoid wars, but when you fight them, win them; respond effectively to national disasters; keep clear of scandals.
Now if only Frum had said exactly that in the NY Times!
Comments
here is a defense of this professor from the National Association of Scholars.
Given that the NAS is a right-wing organization dedicated in its own words to “challenging campus orthodoxies,” I don’t think their support means much.
It is plain from his email that he was not teaching about what Catholic doctrine is, or what the implications of Catholic doctrine might be, or where Catholic doctrine comes from. He was simply teaching that homosexuality is disordered and immoral.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward | July 20, 2010 01:13 PM