Notes from the Cafe Fiasco

Waste Management

Was walking down the street in Arlington yesterday and noticed that the young man who was picking up the recycling on the street was throwing waste into the truck with one hand while he talked on a cell phone with the other. We may not be able to give them good jobs but, man, they're connected.

Harvard Funds Diversity (sort of)

Here at the "World's Greatest University (just ask us)" the President has just announced that they will be spending $50 million on a "faculty development and diversity fund" that will support appointees who "contribute to diversity" and pay for mandatory instruction of graduate student Teaching Fellows on gender bias.

Please note that there will be no mandatory instruction of faculty in anything and they're the ones making the decisions about tenure. One wonders if the criteria for "contribution to diversity" will include those who don't think that Harvard is the next best thing to chunky peanut butter. I doubt it.

Well, all this goes to prove that your mother was right -- watch what you say in public; it could cost you (or the endowment) alot of money.

Epitaph

Well, it's been interesting so far.