How Ward Churchill Got Tenure
The truth, yon ladies and gems, is coming out. And it’s a tad boring one should ask The Wise I. For Mr. Churchill, that faux Native American whose missive about the 9-11 terrorist attacks accused the victims of being Eichmanns, obtained his tenure at the now maligned Colorado U because a whole bunch of highly paid people did not do their job.
Oh yea, and there’s that little matter about diversity.
From the Rocky Mountain News, we have:
In January 1991, the incoming chairman of the CU communication department, Michael Pacanowsky, told his faculty that the department was being pressured by CU officials to grant tenure to Churchill as soon as possible.
The university feared that Churchill had been offered a full professorship at Cal State at Northridge, Pacanowsky wrote in a memo to the faculty.
Churchill did not have a doctorate, which is usually required for tenure.
Now let me get this straight. The bigwigs at Colorado U wanted tenure granted to freaky Churchill because he was being wooed away by Cal State? And by reading on we discover that Colorado U really wanted a Native American on the faculty. I think they get points or extra federal money for that sort of thing.
Could it be, just thinking out loud here, that the notion of seeking diversity was once a noble notion much like that UN Oil For Food program? Over time and as enterprising folks are apt to do, that good deed, again like the UN Oil For Food program, has been mishandled by human beings who would fool us?
Here’s my challenge. I’d like for all businesses, semi-government or government organizations that during this country’s more liberal years actively sought a more diverse employee base. Sort of like the NY Times, which went after Jayson Blair as if he were the new Messiah. Then I’d like those businesses, semi-government or government organizations to give us some concrete example of how their organization has improved by the diversity.
For example, the NY Times would report back that since they got Jayson Blair their circulation has tripled. Of course just the exact opposite is true here not to mention loss of credibility. But just say it were true.
This is not The Wise I suggesting that there is no such an organization. Not at all. But all the public hears about the various diversity programs across the land is bad news and it seems to me that some enterprising soul still serving The Old Media would be willing to investigate this. Being such fans of diversity and everything.
Ideally XYZ corporation would provide a report as following:
The XYZ corporation is happy to rise to your challenge. Since we’ve managed to recruit a management base more diverse than ever before in our company’s history we’ve increased our sales tenfold (audited P&L attached) and have multiplied out customer base times twenty(audited CPA notes attached).
Now there really may be such a company but I’ve yet to read about it. All I ever hear about these so-called “diversity” programs is mockery and silliness.
Which might mean something after all.
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Speaking of Good Ideas ..
Jonah Goldberg is one of The Wise I’s favorite pundits, being a very good writer and famous for his analogies. Today I’d like to include a link to his column about Deep Throat for he has presented one of the more original ideas in clearing up this mess.
Inhis column on 2/23, Goldberg suggests that anyone currently suspected of being Deep Throat and getting on in years should immediately be writing their sealed and verified memoirs. Two I can think of off the top of my head would be George H. Bush and Henry Kissinger. Here of late there’s been others names as possible and even more lately there’s been whispers that Deep Throat was a combination of people or didn’t exist at all, take your pick.
Deep Throat, for those of younger ilk, was a central character in the saga of Woodward and Bernstein’s quest to bring down a Republican president. For which they succeeded though Nixon’s crime of breaking into Demo headquarters would be small potatoes today. Supposedly this Deep Throat guy met the WAPO reporting duo when a flowerpot was left on some balcony or other. Said balcony not even viewable from the street it is alleged.
Goldberg thinks that all who have been rumored to being Deep Throat should have either a denial or affirmation at the ready for the consuming public immediately upon their death. Thus if George H. Bush should die, his video tape denying ever having been Deep Throat would be prepared for showing to answer the question we’ve all had on our minds.
It is alleged that Deep Throat’s identity can be revealed after his death. Almost all of the suspects are getting on in years. The Wise I thinks this is a dashing idea from young Goldberg.
Tonight I shall tape The Wise I denying ever having been Deep Threat and voice my complaints at having been a suspect.
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A Snopes Revelation About Washing Machine Lint
I couldn’t believe my lying eyes when I chanced across this very serious discussion about washing machine lint.
Not so much because it’s not an important element of life, goodness knows, but I discover that the vaunted web site Snopes.Com had to get involved with the matter.
Not only this, there is major information on the site about removing washing machine lint and its importance to the eco-system.
Because of a great goodness within me, I had to share with yon blog readers.
WASHING MACHINE LINT ISSUES HERE
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Saudi Arabia Struggling With Female Equality
Seems the Sauds can’t get separate rooms for female employees that they not work in a mixed-sex environment built quickly enough. I guess this is considered Saudi equality, a separate set of offices for only women. Which I point out because of my fine missive on the idiot thugs and thieves running entire countries and how their lunacy should be revealed to the world.Wise Missive Here
In doing my part in my own plea within the above missive, this humble Blogger share some Saudi nuttiness.
From Arabnewsl.com:
He said he had received many letters from Saudi men saying that their wives or daughters would not work in a mixed environment and if that were the only choice, the women would be better off staying at home without a job. The minister’s remarks were not well received by many Saudi women who said his explanation was a pitiful excuse for not employing women.
If we look back at events of last year, we will see that a law was passed by the Council of Ministers which states that all government departments must create separate women’s departments within a year. The year is now almost up and we still have not heard of new women’s departments in government departments.
Of course the Sauds could tell the women that they will not be flailed if they went ahead and worked in a mixed environment but no, can’t risk releasing those reliable bindings.
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Finally, Those California Landslides …
It is not the fault of The Wise I that mud came pouring down a slope as a result of great rainfall and killed twelve Californians.
This clarification is provided to fend off accusations of unkindness in my total lack of caring over the California landslides and the idiots who suffered a loss.
As cruel as this sounds, they were ALL warned in the mid-90’s that their homes and lives were in danger due to the unsteady locale of their house’s foundation.
I remember well the sympathy of those landslides as many unknowing Californians lost their lives and homes. And I recall the public outcry that warnings of such unstable land must be given to all current owners and future buyers of such unsafe homes.
California didn’t demand that they get out of the houses, which, frankly, might have been the wisest thing. Californians want to tell us McDonald’s is fattening but they don’t have enough sense not to build, or FORBID building, on unstable hill sides.
And how did people die in those landslides? On one news report a survivor said how they were all asleep when the hill side went. How on earth could someone situated on a dangerous muddy hillside GO TO SLEEP what with all the rain and many mudslides already reported? Much less do the smart and go somewhere else until the rainfall stops and things get more stable. But at least they could have stayed AWAKE!
I lived on a sloped lot for fifteen years. Every year a little more of our land would go down the lot to the river below. The entire parcel of land was filled with tiered concrete structures to contain the dirt.
I sure couldn’t sleep on a rainy night and that particular house hadn’t yet slid down a slope into the cover waters.
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How Babies Are Delivered
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Gotta Love The Muslim Humor
Two Muslim Women are sitting in a Gaza Strip bar chatting over a pint of
fermented goat's milk.
One pulls out her purse and starts flipping through pictures.
The women have known each other for years, and they start reminiscing.
"This is my oldest son, He's a martyr," says one of the women.
The woman continues, "This is my second son. He is a martyr also."
After a pause and a deep sigh, the second woman says wistfully,
"They blow up so fast, don't they?"
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And this Snort
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