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CU and the Churchill Affair: how did this happen in the first place?
The wait is over and the inevitable has happened: the University of Colorado yesterday formally dismissed Professor Ward Churchill. Interim President Hank Brown explained, in an open letter to the school’s donors: To help ensure that accountability, we cannot abide academic misconduct. More than 20 faculty members (from CU and other universities) on three separate panels conducted a thorough review
Read moreS&R bestows Thinking Blogger Awards
We were recently honored by BlueBloggin and BlogActive, both of which bestowed Thinking Blogger Awards on Scholars & Rogues. It’s an honor to be thought well of, especially by two such outstanding organizations. So to our friends there, we say thanks, and it goes without saying that you may consider yourselves tagged back. The way Thinking Blogger Awards work is
Read moreCampaign mobile: it’s 1996 all over again
Every time a new medium catches our attention we have to endure this awkward period where people who have decision-making and spending authority but no understanding of the medium at all treat it like it’s the old media they’re used to. Old assumptions, old practices … failure. It’s like in 1996 when ad agencies discovered the Internet. “I know, let’s
Read moreHillary picks her campaign song (insert snark here)
As noted a couple weeks ago, the Clinton campaign was soliciting our input on what her theme song should be. As a social media marketer I liked the concept and frankly some of the executions have been simply superb, like this vid. (Although, remarkably, I can’t find a copy of this video at YouTube. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?) But the songs
Read moreViva Vivoleum! Yes Men punk Calgary Gas and Oil Exposition
How long should it take an educated audience to figure out they’re being played? Protesters spring hoax on oil expo audience Yes Men ejected from conference Sean Myers, with files from Ashok Dutta and Gina Teel, Calgary Herald Published: Friday, June 15, 2007 By the time candles supposedly made from remains of a deceased ExxonMobil janitor named Reggie Watts were
Read moreFTC suit against Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger is like a bad pro wrestling angle
Good to see the Feds finally cracking some greedhead skulls by sacking up and opposing an anti-consumer megamerger. Ummm, wait a sec… FTC wants to stop Wild Oats/Whole Foods deal New Mexico Business Weekly 2:47 PM MDT Tuesday, June 5, 2007 The Federal Trade Commission says it will sue to stop a pending merger between rival natural foods grocers Wild
Read moreTB case: here’s the king-hell coincidence of the year so far
Well, what were the chances of this happening? Odd twist in TB alert: Patient is TB researcher’s son-in-law May 31, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – As information piled up in the case of a man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis (TB) who took multiple international air trips, it was revealed today that he is a lawyer and the
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Read moreJerry Falwell is dead – let’s accord his long career the respect it deserves
I think the late Rev. Falwell would agree with the suggestion that there are bad people in the world, people who trade on ignorance and hate and whose lives diminish our collective humanity. And in that spirit, he would certainly agree that we’re better off when such people pass onto their final reward. It’s for Jesus to judge the life
Read moreNow why didn’t I think of this?
What a wonderful Friday afternoon story. Apple and friends hit with C&D for “actively avoiding” use of DRM tech Posted May 11th 2007 4:22PM by Paul Miller Here’s a new one on us. Instead of suing companies for infringing on its patents, like all the cool kids are doing, Media Rights Technologies has sent cease and desist letters to Apple,
Read moreThe ballad of a progressive gun owner
We’ve heard a great deal on the issue of gun control in the wake of Virginia Tech – not surprisingly – and as is always the case when these debates flare up we see a fairly predictable framing: “conservative” = pro-gun, “liberal” = gun control. If you’re a fairly measured reader, which I think I am, you see comment on
Read moreWho said it?
Which prominent American leader said the following? “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” “I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”
Read moreHope for Internet radio?
Here’s some maybe good news: Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and eight co-sponsors have introduced the Internet Radio Equality Act, which has several major provisions: Nullifies the recent decision of the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) judges. Changes the Internet royalty rate-setting standard so that it’s the same as the one that applies to satellite radio royalty arbitrations.
Read moreOf Virginia Tech and video games: will somebody please do the math?
Video games killed those kids at Virginia Tech!!! So said self-credentialed media scholar Jack Thompson, whose uninformed hissy fit commenced roughly eight seconds after the shooting ended. Of course, FAUX News was happy to hand him a mic and point a camera at him. If only they’d taught math at Jack Thompson’s school.
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