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    You are right, and the locusts are a particularly horrible problem this year. My point is that, when we concentrate…
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    • Your kind of thinking is exactly what we need, if we are going to improve academia.
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    • But you aren't even reading what was written! Before flying off the handle, take a deep breath and then read…
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    • Again, I want to give a better response than the quick one of Friday, as I was trying to get…
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    • I was in a hurry Friday to drive six hours for a wedding, so did not have time to really…
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    • Not even in Part I do I advocate the abolition of tenure!
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    • What are you talking about? Of course there can be diffuse authority.  Not everything is one pyramid running to one…
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    • Wait a minute: where do I advocate the removal of tenure?  Did you read the diary at all, or did…
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    • Have I been mean to you?  I hope not.  If I have, I am sorry. And my comment on balancing…
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    • One size fits all?   No.  And some people catch one thing more quickly than another.  Sure, I understand that.…
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    • My point wasn't about my score, simply that I am no math dunderhead--as many mathematicians think we English professors are.…
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    • Have you ever seen Bertrand Russell's The ABC of Relativity?  The book came out in 1925 and made one of…
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    • I want to say a little more on this: It's easy to put the blame for ignorance on the ignorant...…
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    • Yes, it is difficult to couch the "discussions" in terms that people not educated in the particular field can understand.…
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    • Here are a couple of links to things I have written for an online journal on Africa: http://www.parallaxonline.org/enov03.html http://www.parallaxonline.org/expnothingnew.html I…
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    • In my experience during the time I spent teaching as an adjunct, I found that my fellow adjuncts were, for…
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    • Part of the problem in dealing with the question of "intelligent design" arises from the fact that few people outside…
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    • I think the genesis of the feelings towards ABD in the academic community is exactly as you describe it: "There…
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    • Hmmm... Clue One: I never said that authority needs to be consolidated to exist.  If you think there is no…
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    • I'm the one BooMan mentions in his intro promoting this to the front page--the one who actually likes Niger. That…
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