paralepsis

From time to time, I surf over to Uncommon Descent to keep tracks on the intelligent design folks. They're an odd bunch over there: constantly proclaiming that this or that study is the stake in the heart of Darwinist Orthodoxy TM -- but then, nothing changes, and so a new stake must be discovered next week. I commented there for a while but then I got banned, I guess -- anyway, my comments stopped showing up. I guess they were considered too snarky: this at a site where Dembski actually began a post by comparing the face of Jerry Coyne with Herman Munster. What. An. Asshole. Today Dembski posts the following : It will be interesting to see how the National Center for Science Education Selling Evolution deals with the growing number of non-religious ID proponents. Check out the following link: icon-rids.blogspot.com . Yes, very interesting. No doubt the NCSE will be shaking with fear at this guy : I don't hold any degrees from any university of any kind. My job as a citize...

I really appreciate those who have commented here and at Kos about the Rhetoric of Now series. I'm pretty jazzed about it; it seems to satisfy something at the core of me, and it's profoundly moving to have so many notes of appreciation over at the Big Orange. But there will be a brief delay; I've got to wrap up another project, and so I won't be posting a new installment until at least the middle of next week.

Via Zuska , we learn of an excellent new website for academics: the National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife . A description: Today, college and university faculty members face many challenges, including an increasingly diverse workforce and new models for career flexibility. The National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife (NCAW) provides resources to help faculty, graduate students, administrators and higher education researchers understand more about all aspects of modern academic work and related career issues, including tenure track and non tenure track appointments, benefits, climate and satisfaction, work/life balance, and policy development. An important resource, especially for young academics.