Monthly Archives April 2013

April 30, 2013 / Posted in  Education

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, subject master expertise, ² and true learning: a reality that I have not read on the Internet until today (April 30, 2013). 

I have had the unfortunate experience of teaching with “teachers” who had “Master Degrees” obtained on-line (two of these august people actually confessed in private that they had bought the degree, and one, an Academic Dean at a Roman Catholic high school asked me if I knew where he could buy another to “fill-out” his résumé (his curriculum vita, to say the least, was sparse”)...

April 29, 2013 / Posted in  abortion, Bible, Christian Terrorists, Evangelical Christianity, Homosexuality, Iowa, Iowa Republicans, Jesus Christ, Republican Party

Bob Vander Plaats Fuhrer of The FAMiLY

Iowa’s leading libertine, most  unreticent and outspoken advocate of  execrative invidious misanthropic, misopolemical, mordacious, hate-filled, ¹ 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 Bob Vander Plaats of West Des Moines, Iowa, is a junque of invented intelligence who pontifically proclaims himself to be a follower of the Emperor Constantine (306-337 CE) I’s Christian Church “³” and, like the emperor, prattlingly preaches parched Paulinity (the official state religion of Pagan Rome)...

April 23, 2013 / Posted in  Adolf Hitler, Bible, Homosexuality, Iowa, Iowa Republicans, Martin Luther, Robert Vander Plaats

Dennis Guth Iowa State Senator

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 is void of any attachment to the rubrics of education outside of elementary agriculture that now is decades old. 

A freshman Senator, he has taken the stage to preach his private agenda, calling for the advantage of “points of personal privilege” to make horrific comments about the LGBT community.”¹” that he has no personal knowledge or nor any experience with...