Tuesday with Claymore
Before I went DUmpster diving this morning, I predicted that the page would be full of anti-Confederate flag, anti-gun and racism threads…this is what I found. Enjoy.
Gun control…a political WINNER!
Burn a flag and institutional racism goes away! Yea us.
White folks to the back of the bus.
Oh hey, the NRA are the REAL slave masters.
“It’s huge and shocking..” and it’s on private property.
I’m no Glenn Beck fan, but this is an outright lie.
And for those who were wondering what Michael Moore was thinking…
White people don’t like socialists.
Open carry in Mississippi nearly gets someone shot.
If only Hillary were black…and a lesbian…well…
In case you didn’t get it, conservatives are racist. You’re welcome.
Dividing yourself into groups isn’t diving the nation. Say wut?
…and then they went after Trace Atkins.
Liberal Costco sells too many right-wing whacko books. You rock, 1st Amendment!
Hacking. It’s like climate change except no one cares.
If a pope craps in the environment, does he still oppose abortion?
Ah yes, the old “the Founders couldn’t have imagined machine guns” argument. So original.
Stupid Southerners…from Boston…using flags as weapons…
…because it worked so well with drugs and alcohol.
Oh hey! Let’s add your Facebook posts to background checks!!
The victor writes the history books?
Category: Tuesdays with Claymore
…and yet no one mentions the ten people shot (INCLUDING CHILDREN) in Philadelphia last week and the 11 in Detroit on Sunday. I guess black violence against black doesn’t count.
Didn’t you get the memo? With Confederate flags gone from the SC state house grounds, the racist killings in Chicago and Detroit will grind to a halt.
The MSM isn’t reporting about this, either:
http://www.thepcmdgazette.com/black-guy-shoots-up-church-killing-4-then-abducts-his-wife-and-kills-her/
It doesn’t support the agenda, so no, it doesn’t count.
I do not understand this at all. Last Saturday, there was a 5K held in Gettysburg to, in part, end racial discrimination. So, are you saying that it didn’t end? I don’t get it.
I read thru ONE (huge/shocking/on private property). One person got it right #7 davidn3600, that even though people may be offended, it IS a private flag, flying over private property, maintained by a private organization.
Whew – that’s one in a row.
Wonder if davidn3600 has been blocked/banned by now for being logical and conservative?
Claymore, I hope your bill at the liquor store doesn’t get bumped up over those idiots. I can only take so much of their chitchat. Then my frontal lobes get cross-eyed.
By God, I have to respect anyone who can churn through all this nonsense and still remain standing… I hit a record today and made it through 5 before the pain became blinding. Claymore, my hat’s off to you! (also because now the band hurts my aching head!)
I have no idea why you are calling the professor a dumbass. Anyone who does not understand the importance of the problem he is highlighting is the true dumbass. Most college professors make very little money. For instance the cops at UC Berkeley make far more than most of the faculty. Despite the fact that the faculty are PhDs and most are among the brightest minds in the world in their particular discipline. This is a problem resulting from three primary factors. First, the privatization of public universities and corresponding cuts to state funding for universities. The result is massive increases in tuition, exponential in some states, and huge cuts to salaries to professors. Second, universities are reducing tenure positions and filling faculty positions with low paid graduate students and adjunct positions. The adjunct position are essentially part time positions and working in one has increasingly become necessary to “earn” a faculty position despite the fact that adjunct positions usually do not provide sufficient wages to survive in many cities. Third, the lack of unions for faculty. This is the result of a split in the faculty labor force. The older tenured and selected “eminent” faculty have tenure and are paid and treated like high value professionals so their power in the labor market is separated from the labor power of the rest of the academic community. The cuts are carried by the rest of the faculty, particularly new faculty. This makes unionizing and demanding a fair wage difficult since the most influential members of the community have little need for unions. This hurt the quality of education since earning tenureship and being seen as “irreplaceable” to the university has little to do with how effective you are as a professor in the classroom and everything to do with how well known and respected you are in the discipline. Thus professors are forced to focus entirely on research and publishing and have little to no incentive to perform well in the classroom. In fact time and effort focused on students hurts them in their effort to conduct research and publish.… Read more »
Education, for the most part, has become a giant Ponzi scheme. The very obvious exception are the Technical and Engineering schools.
When I went to school, I started with the lowest degree I could get that would earn me a decent wage in a solid career. I continued my education from there, and when I changed careers, I started at the bottom and went up the ladder again. I see people today that go into college with the expectation of coming out with at least a Master’s and a low six figure salary to start. That’s a rare bird, if it happens at all. Why would anybody go into a career where they can’t make ends meet? Or, if they are so philanthropic as to put society ahead of their own comfort, why don’t they understand that they will have to find a way to supplement their income? They wouldn’t be the first person to work two jobs to make ends meet!
While I don’t disagree with some of what you stated – this is in response to – what?
(Oh, and what a teacher or professor is paid is totally irrelevant to whether they are, in fact, a dumbass.)
Sorry, I hit report why scrolling on my phone
He’s a dumbass.
“My girlfriend is a PhD candidate in Chinese Politics at Berkeley with a MA from Harvard and she faces a brutal job market. Her current income as an instructor is less than $2000 per month in the bay area. She also is unlikely to get a teaching position next term because she is competing with 12 grad students for 2 positions.”
This part of your screed made me smile. It’s either the most epic troll, or the best example of what elitist shitbags in academia consider marketable professions. Your “girlfriend” has likely spent upwards of $200+k on her “education”…an education which makes her less employable than an Amish pornstar. It is weapons-grade dumbassery to invest in an education that has less employment opportunity than Bruce Jenner’s jockstrap. Rather than looking at the landscape and saying, “Hey, I bet that STEM shit is the fucking bomb! I should pursue that!”, your alleged girlfriend wasted a shit load of time and money sitting in classes discussing the political climate…in fucking China. The good news is that by embracing that cultural education, it’s prepared her for eating Ramen noodles for the foreseeable future. Which is nice.
Ramen noodles? I read about a chef who took up ramen noodlery, opened a noodle cafe, and is making money hand over fist.
Pseudo-intellectual elitism is a costly way to find out that your tuition debt won’t get paid back, and you’ll have to do what a classmate of mine did – take accounting or some other practical classes if you want to pay the rent and put food on the table.
Coming out of post-grad school with a doctorate in Chinese babbalooey will get you a job with the title ‘Hey, waitress!’
For me the term DUmbass means it seems quite a waste of time to sell yourself so cheaply.
While I respect those who teach and the rigors of the academic process, if one chooses a degree path with limited options because that’s what they love that is their choice alone yes? If you choose to gain a PhD in symmetrical aspects of Egyptian tomb construction you can’t get upset that you get paid squat in the market when compared to some dummy like me who chose to utilize a skill in color science into a career that pays many more times than the poor adjunct is currently making.
Why should they earn more? And earn it from whom? If your skill set leaves you no options beyond a $15k yearly salary one could argue that you’ve chosen poorly and you must consider some other options if you require a higher salary to live the life you wish.
I turned down a music scholarship to enter the military, after my service I worked in the printing industry learning a great deal while earning a nice high five figure salary for my blue collar efforts. I turned that experience into a General Manager’s position and a Directorship at three other companies and now finally make some serious money. I would prefer to sit and play the piano, but I knew there was a limited market for that skill set and chose to work at making myself an expensive commodity with a high end value add for my employers.
You make some excellent points in your post and I believe we certainly need to pay our engineering and science researchers and professors good money to encourage people to enter those fields.
I did not take Claymore’s title to be anything but commentary on choosing a skill set that has limited market value.
The thread title was indeed a reflection of it being on DU and the idiot poster whining about their virtually useless degree not being marketable. I feel as much sympathy for this asshat as I do someone who would pursue blacksmithing as a viable profession; I’m sure someone, somewhere can use those skills but odds are that ain’t you.
Lars, Lars, Lars.
Oh my word.
Why in the name of all that is holy did your girlfriend want to earn a Ph.D. in CHINESE POLITICS??? Didn’t she know going in that there would be few, if any, jobs available in the field?
For you to say she faces a “brutal” job market is an understatement. I would be heartily surprised if there is a job market AT ALL for that particular degree. (Unless, of course, she wants to work in China.)
More words of wisdom from the dipshit with a Political Economy degree.
Has anyone besides me noticed that when people complain about a crappy job market, those are very frequently people whose education was not aimed at developing marketable skills, like accounting, commercial or graphic arts, or something as lowkey as OTR trucking?
Lars, please tell your girlfriend for me that she should have looked at the classified section in the newspaper to see what is in demand: glaziers in construction, for instance, start at pretty high hourly wages, and they can work just about anywhere, as can waitresses.
I just thought I’d drop this in here, since there are fields that are so hot they are clamoring for applicants. All of them, however, involved practical skills which can be used in the real world.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/the-25-highest-paying-jobs-with-the-most-openings-right-now/ss-BBhIo62
Not one of them seems to have any relationship at all to time spent in the pursuit of a useless and costly program that leads nowhere.
The irony of them saying who needs a gun in church in a thread inspired by 9 people being murdered in a church.
Regarding the whole flag controversy in South Carolina, I must say there is a sort of delicious irony in the current brouhaha…
The fact that so many conservative republicans are currently defending a flag previously used by slaveholding democrats when they tried to sunder the union is the sort of moment you can’t write in fiction because it’s almost too unbelievable for reality, and yet here it is….