(1) These are flawed characters, not writer stand-ins. (2) Keep watching Andrea. (3) Michonne.

" Social scientists need to communicate the value and importance of their research to policy makers in Washington, DC, and throughout America if they want to receive more financial support in the future, a Congressman told Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) members. "

" The timing of Mr. Thompson’s request surely means that it is a response to my blog posting about the American Legislative Exchange Council, since I have never before been the subject of an Open Records request, and nothing in my prior professional life has ever attracted this kind of attention from the Republican Party. It doesn’t take a great leap of logic to infer that Mr. Thompson and his colleagues aren’t particularly eager to have a state university professor asking awkward questions about the dealings of state Republicans with the American Legislative Exchange Council. This open records request apparently seemed to Mr. Thompson to be a good way to discourage me from sticking my nose in places he doesn’t think it belongs. "

" The Wisconsin Republican Party apparently found Cronon's writing on the links between Walker's initiatives and ALEC unacceptable. In response they demanded--under Wisconsin's Open Records Law--copies of any of Cronon's University emails relating to a series of names and topics. "

" When the process of governing is incomprehensible, manipulation and propaganda thrives. The strange stories that Glenn Beck creates with his chalkboard gain traction with Americans, who are made anxious by the large changes that have overtaken the United States, "

" I just wish she wouldn't sell it to the general public as though it were some radical new test that the "mammography mafia" don't want you to know about."

FFS OMFG epic fail GTFO " So, is text-ese wrong? Only according to those who are making the rules (and Pearson’s tests). "

" Making one’s work and perspective visible in the media opens the possibilities for threats and hate mail, loss of credibility, or worse from detractors. "

" Are these professors the successors to the last generation of intellectuals? If so, society has successfully insulated them. They inhabit a protected environment where they can neither harm each other nor reach outsiders. As academic intellectuals subvert paradigms and deconstruct narratives in campus symposia, conservatives take over the nation. Brilliant! "

Sociologists are the absolute last people who should be warping emotionally charged words to mean whatever they want them to mean. See also: Tea Party definitions of socialism and fascism. "given the recent discovery of 4 bodies in Long Island, some or all of whom were women sex workers. Targeted violence on this scale is a form of war, of terrorism, of outright hatred for a particular category of people."

"For years, MacDonald defended his research as apolitical and scientific, but that defense fell apart after the millennium, when MacDonald embarked on a white supremacist speaking tour. Last December, MacDonald dropped the defense altogether and declared his dislike for Jews."

"_There Goes the Science Bit_, a collection of conversations between early-career scientists and the purveyors of pseudoscience. ... the dossier is a startling, shocking, and often humourous expose of the lack of science behind everyday claims."

"Say nothing. Start carefully annotated files. Resist the impulse to try to stifle the discourse with so-far bogus cries of racism. ... Wait. Watch. Study. Amass evidence for some very specific, very well timed indictments."

"Do not succumb to the temptation to give in to the creationist tactics... It is important to oppose creationists, but it's foolish to do so on their terms."

"there simply isn't enough truth to go around. So, we get bullshit instead. ... In choosing guests to appear on cable news, bookers will almost always choose a glib ignoramus over an expert who can't talk in clipped sentences."

See also, especially, H. G. Frankfurt's _On Bullshit_. "The new world needs meta-experts to sort out what it all means. “The social value of the synthesizer has grown,” Mr. Gladwell said. “ … So it’s made my life better.” "

"If more academics deigned to work toward reforms, they might contribute ideas about taxes, education, trade, employment, investment, foreign policy, and security from jihadists. But the academic left is too busy guarding the flame of nullification."

"yet another author drawing on cognitive neuroscience, behavioral psychology & economics in an attempt to make readers feel that they are in control of their lives. ...straight out of the Malcolm Gladwell school of pseudo-scientific,feel-good nonsense"