This guy has the right idea

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We have to start treating the American South, with their open carry and voter suppression like a pariah nation, similar to South Africa in the 1980's and 1990's. If they want "open carry" and voter suppression, fine. They just don't get that stuff and also get to be treated like grownups.
Daniel Hamermesh, an economics professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, plans to withdraw from the university because of his concerns about the campus carry law that will go into effect in Texas in August 2016. According to a Tuesday report from the university's student newspaper, The Daily Texan, Hamermesh will teach at University of Sydney next fall.
Today’s Word Is: Petulant

Today’s Word Is: Petulant

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Petulant.   pet·u·lant ˈpeCHələnt/ adjective (of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered. Imagine this. You’re attending or employed by a large land grant university that receives a measly…
Thursday Open Thread [10.8.2015]

Thursday Open Thread [10.8.2015]

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Sen. Bernie Sanders “is uninterested in going through the motions of typical debate practice,” Politico reports.
“While CNN is billing the event as a showdown, Sanders’ team sees the first Democratic debate as a chance to introduce a fairly niche candidate to a national audience. So his team intends to let him do what he’s been doing. Far from preparing lines to deploy against Clinton — let alone O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, or Jim Webb — Sanders plans to dish policy details, learned through a handful of briefings with experts brought in by his campaign.”
I think that would be a good thing. A detailed filled debate. No personal attacks. Quite a contrast to the GOP.
Lie of the Year. Perhaps of the Decade.

Lie of the Year. Perhaps of the Decade.

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In a dog-bites-man story, the despicable House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst, aka 'Pete's Enforcer', sought to essentially narc out someone who had the temerity to question the raises that D House leadership bestowed upon its staff.  Longhurst did it by leaking an e-mail exchange and issuing a veiled threat to the constituent's employer.  This News-Journal story captures the essence of Longhurst as well as anything I've read. Please read the story. You'll see that Longhurst is first utterly disingenuous in somehow claiming that she HAD NO IDEA whether the e-mail in question reflected the official position of the University of Delaware.  Her intent was clear: To get the employee in trouble, and to underline that the General Assembly, due to its infinite charity, provides funds to the University of Delaware and, gee, wouldn't it be a shame if that relationship was threatened by this e-mail? And, now, to the Lie of the Year.  In Delaware, this is almost certainly the Lie of the Decade:
“I was just asking a question,” Longhurst said. “I’ve never bullied anybody. If that’s the perception, that’s the perception." “How is it intimidating?” she told The News Journal. “I just raised a question.”