Public Admin retake 3 days from now, and I am starting to panic. Why? I am not sure. I have close to 200 pages of notes on the class I was weaker in last time, and I am currently making small thumbnails of the notes for easier access. I should be fine on the law and policy question (after all, it is my area of specialty) I just want to get some ( Read more... )

To everyone convinced that LJ caved to a fringe special interest group ( Read more... )

I posted a quote from red_silk_robe on the whole community/deletion drama here.

I would imagine that the quote ticked a few people off. I don't know, because I did not enable comment emails. (Thank you members of academics_anon for showing me that shutting off email on potentially touchy topics is a good thing ( Read more... )

but this is an exception...

I am truly sickened by what I am seeing. Read below the cut and if you agree this is beyond anything that could remotely be acceptable I urge you to contact yourmembers of the House and Senate

( Antiterrorism Bill on Detainees, Geneva Conventions )

God I love this band.. they can even make songs I hate sound good....

http://youtube.com/v/JqNgSDT3Ncc&mode=related&search=

( cuteness overload )

For your enjoyment...

Very funny and no this is not a joke.. it really happened.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_Jonny's_Bar_Mitzvah

http://www.youtube.com/v/yvB3hFKBZRM

just so you don't think they are without merit, I give you  a cover of Motorhead's Ace of Spades (Oh and the band made both these videos themselves)

http://youtube.com/v/XFh6IU4ukjo

http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/

When You really think about it, Walk this way is kind of a creepy song... this just makes it creepier...

http://youtube.com/v/muyqMrsuLXw

I recently did some research for a satirical novel set at a university. The idea was to have a bunch of gags about how colleges prostitute themselves to improve their U.S. News & World Report rankings and keep up a healthy supply of tuition-paying students, while wrapping their craven commercialism in high-minded-sounding academic blather ( Read more... )