The Factory’s best wishes to the recovery of a guy hung heavy enough to get stabbed in the brain and still put down the guy who came after him.

Best of all, he seems to be just fine.

Though if you listen to the commentary, you’ll figure out that a lot of folks’ zombie plans just went right out the window…

Full disclosure: I am a CEU alumnus, and on the off chance that my commentary isn’t preserved on pajamas media (my writing’s not always good enough to make the cut), I’m preserving it here… because another ex-pat just got sold down the river in the following commentary on Hungarian politics.

“They are using this holiday for their politics, but today shouldn’t be political.”
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Mr. Hayes is getting sold a bill of goods, and said student is talking out of his or her collective butt cheeks. (more…)

“Also racism came to a head with the development of the KKK.  They could now publicly hate everyone.”

“Industrialism helped US become more industrialized.” 

“The US entered WWI because of Communism.”

“WWI was caused because of the Holocaust.”

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Q:  “What’s different about the ‘Roaring 20s?’ “

• “Henry Ford produced a car every 10 seconds by WWI.”
• “People did social things again, enjoyed themseles more, and had more children”
• “It was at this time that the oops began.”
• “I believe the roaring 20s were said to be the best century.”

Not that I particularly care about pot, but do we really need anybody with a known history of breaking the law in a notable way being recruited… in Dallas, a.k.a., the home of the lookalike scandal and the closest thing DFW has to Louisiana-corrupt cops?

Ultimately, though I’d like to see some of the drug laws get changed in a major way, this is just a recipe for the real bad apples to start slipping into the force.

Actually, they wake me up by getting my wife out of bed, who then putters around like the morning person she is before making coffee… but this is pretty realistic…

Looks like I’ve got five sections for Spring, plus any MW/MWF sections I want to pick up over in Tarrant.  So that’s a success.  The down side is that I can’t even begin to match my wife’s salary at this rate, and basically have to work a consistent seven sections or so in order to even come close — and this without benefits.

I may be changing careers again, unless I manage to hit the lottery and get into a full-time position within the next two-to-three years — difficult, since I’m a white male and have to be “supercandidate” in order to survive any stage of the process, and I still can’t work even as a part-timer on my hometown campus (not a whine: these are just the facts on the ground, just like it was a fact that the shit-ignorant fratboy investment bankers I used to work for ran a lily-white little operation within the office and weren’t shy about tossing around the kind of racist remarks that would get mere mortals like yours truly canned, and justifiably so, in a heartbeat).  Teaching is nice, and I definitely enjoy it… but its sustainability on a part-time basis is going to be predicated upon an ever-increasing number of sections taught per semester, and although I’m handling seven right now, to match the Bunny I’d need nine, minimum, and I don’t think I can consistently get that many unless I’m very lucky.  Seven is probably sustainable, and eight theoretically possible if I were to pick up dual-credit work again (though that raises timing issues, it’s a growth industry as we continue to replace the high schools/do their jobs for them).

Some hard strategizing is going to be necessary:  I’m either going to have to manage to build my CV up to where I can hit paydirt in a couple of years (and that’s being worked on, since I’m on a committee and registered for significant additional pedagogical/classroom training this winter), or else start looking for a field in which I can leverage what I do into something beyond a menial position.