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by Riddick
08-15-2012 05:13 PM
Forum: Paranormal
Topic: Bigfoot Don't Get No Respect
Replies: 9
Views: 3271

by Riddick
08-15-2012 05:12 PM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: “America’s comeback team": Mitt Picks Paul for GOP VP!!
Replies: 151
Views: 9468

Baby. Bathwater. In this case, you want to change the culture, not the concept of tenure. You also want to continue efforts to "regularize" part-time instructors into a quasi-tenure-like system -- not throw out the very concept. There ya go! Don't destroy tenure, reform it. As much as red...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 04:26 PM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: Romney: Slash PBS Funding
Replies: 36
Views: 3278

Amtrak received Amtrak received $1.56 billion in federal funding in 2010, with $1.3 billion in stimulus funds .56 billion in federal funding in 2010, with Amtrak received $1.56 billion in federal funding in 2010, with $1.3 billion in stimulus funds .3 billion in stimulus funds Huh. Wonder how much ...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 04:25 PM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: Romney: Slash PBS Funding
Replies: 36
Views: 3278

The government spends 4 million a year on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the parent organization of PBS); Amtrak received The government spends $444 million a year on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the parent organization of PBS); Amtrak received $1.56 billion in federal funding...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 01:16 PM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: “America’s comeback team": Mitt Picks Paul for GOP VP!!
Replies: 151
Views: 9468

Tenure is a way of ensuring academic freedom that far predates the financial crisis... Excerpted from Tenure's Dirty Little Secret [/size] By Milton Greenberg at The Chronicle of Higher Education Online : It seems that tenure is always in the news. Long an article of faith for most faculty members,...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 01:12 PM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: “America’s comeback team": Mitt Picks Paul for GOP VP!!
Replies: 151
Views: 9468

What's tenure got to do w/ college costs? Excerpted from the abstract to 25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College #3: Reform Academic Employment Policies at centerforcollegeaffordability.com [/b]: A large portion of faculty receive tenure, the equivalent of a lifetime employment contract. A decision t...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 04:48 AM
Forum: Art Bell/The New Frontier
Topic: Vintage Dreamland with Art
Replies: 6
Views: 2191

Dreamland 7/4/94 - John Rhodes - UFOs & underground civilizations

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5645606C6CAA7F12
by Riddick
08-15-2012 04:18 AM
Forum: Art Bell/The New Frontier
Topic: Art Bell & Libertarianism
Replies: 7
Views: 2376

Art Bell & Libertarianism

Excerpted from (where else?) libertarianism.com : Over the past two decades, only a small handful of people can claim to have "redefined" talk radio -- among them Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Howard Stern. Add to that list Art Bell, who turned the "graveyard shift"...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 02:03 AM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: 'Naked Cowboy' to run for U.S. president
Replies: 9
Views: 1524

:biglol:
by Riddick
08-15-2012 01:45 AM
Forum: The Brig
Topic: Where were you on August 15, 16 & 17 in 1969?
Replies: 20
Views: 3402

I was a 9 year old in Wisconsin, in all likelihood wishing it wasn't only 10 or so days left 'til school started again!
by Riddick
08-15-2012 12:51 AM
Forum: Politics and Government 2010-2013
Topic: 'Naked Cowboy' to run for U.S. president
Replies: 9
Views: 1524

From Huffpo : "My campaign is a refutation of Obama's direction and a political statement," Burck told The Huffington Post. "It's also a willingness to represent a different opinion." Burck is listed as an independent but is bothered by the fact that no Republicans have (so far)...
by Riddick
08-15-2012 12:23 AM
Forum: Art Bell/The New Frontier
Topic: Question about "Midnight in the Desert" by Crystal
Replies: 53
Views: 21710

Wow, I'm impressed. Looks like you were right there with Art pretty much from the time he went national. IIRC I didn't start listening until around 1995, when time-to-time on Saturday nights staying up late I'd catch Dreamland (with the Milwaukee affiliate carrying the previous Sunday show on a dela...

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