Month: April 2013

Duke faculty reject plan for it to join online consortium | Inside Higher Ed

Duke faculty reject plan for it to join online consortium | Inside Higher Ed. This is the best, most clearly and concisely written article on long-distance learning that I have read in years.  The author offers hope for a return to strict standards [1. Pride, J. B. (1979). Sociolinguistic aspects of language learning and teaching. Oxford, …

Bob Vander Plaats, Tom Shaw and Dwayne Alons: hatemongers, genocide incendiaries and Christian terrorists

Iowa’s leading libertine, most  unreticent and outspoken advocate of  execrative invidious misanthropic, misopolemical, mordacious, hate-filled, [1. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/19/272459/family-leaders-bob-vander-plaats-erupts-in-laughter-at-faggot-joke-thats-pretty-good/?mobile=nc.] advocate and apologist for unlimited genocide against the LGBT community and women who make a choice in contradiction to his own agenda for self-righteousness, and a return to an age of darkness, [2. http://www.qcmississippimud.com/bob-vander-plaats-anti-civil-rights-hate-monger.shtml] Bob Vander Plaats of West Des …

Iowa State Sen. Dennis Guth: A Study in Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Self-Loathing, and Lack of Education

On April 17, 2013, at the beginning of the Iowa Senate workday, the most junior Senator from Klemme, Dennis Guth, a man of the soil but without serious learning and no solid education beyond an initial degree in agriculture. He has no training in medical, psychological or psychiatric sciences, or in any of the social sciences.  Guth …