Pithy wisdom will wait
Last night as I was driving around on a few errands, I listened to part of This American Life‘s 10 Commandments episode. This morning, a clever idea from that popped into my head, but I’m afraid I’ve been spending time on journal editing tasks–reading reviewer reports and sending out some disposition letters, starting with the […]
Grades and puns
As I left the house this afternoon for Chain Cafe, I told my dear spouse, “I’m leaving for a few hours, hopefully to finish my grading.” I swear that the pun was unintentional (and she didn’t catch it until I groaned). I only had to wait half an hour before getting my pun-ishment: the rejection […]
Robert M. Franklin at Morehouse
Robert M. Franklin is the new president for Morehouse College, something that is of more importance to people than one might think for the presidency of a private liberal-arts college. Morehouse is an all-male college that is one of the elite historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Franklin’s view of the presidency as a moral […]
On Marilee Jones, resume-padding, and credentialism
Kevin Carey, meet Margaret Soltan. I’ll buy the coffees if you’ll have an entertaining discussion, okay? (I should’ve included the following in the entry originally…) Carey and Soltan have very different, very interesting slices on the Marilee Jones firing (for her lying about her education to get the MIT Admissions Dean’s job many years ago). […]
From the jury room
By Sherman Dorn on May 7, 2007
Your Verdict is nothing, you play upon the Court; I say you shall go together, and bring in another Verdict, or you shall starve; and I will have you carted about the City, as in Edward the third’s time. The new state courthouse in downtown Tampa has a much better jury waiting room than the […]
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