Just a reminder (for the interested and the uninterested) that this matter of the 4 Barnacles has yet to be resolved.
Posts Tagged ‘Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse’
4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse, Redux
Friday, June 12th, 2009Tags:academic freedom, College Grade Tampering, D:F/M, Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse
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ER: I Blame George Clooney, Trapper John, Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby, Doogie Howser And the Like
Friday, June 5th, 2009Since May 30, Saturday, because of a bike accident, I’ve been to two emergency rooms, the first via ambulance in Jersey City, and the second in Manhattan via PATH and taxi, and have made office visits to two Manhattan doctors, one to my personal physician who referred me to a podiatrist, who told me I really needed to see an orthopedic specialist. He told me to rush to NYU’s orthopedics emergency room where a NYU orthopedics ER doc told me what I suspected when I was in the Jersey City Medical Center but couldn’t get anyone there to take serious my concerns: My Achilles tendon was mangled, to what degree she couldn’t determine because the NYUÂ MRI folks had left at 7 p.m.
Tags:emergency rooms, EMTs, ER, Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse, George Clooney, hospitals, Jersey City Medical Center, Quincy, storytelling, The Fourth Estate
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Omar Edwards, Andrew Duton, NYPD, New York City, Civil Liberties, America, Et Al
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Was race a factor in the death of NYPD Officer Omar Edwards?
Possibly.
Was Officer Andrew Duton acting like a racist? Trash that question. Better ones are: Does he live in a racist society? Was his fatal mistake the result of his growing up and living in a racist society? What was his mindset at the moment he squeezed off several shots? Would he have shot a white man, woman or child under similar circumstances?
Who the hell is capable of answering such questions considering the epistemological challenges, regardless of the torrent of news reporting as well as commentary manipulated to look like news reporting?
No one.
Google, this date, listed 1,184 links to news stories about Omar Edwards’s slaying. Yet, every sane New Yorker, however, knows the answer to this one: When was the last time a black NYPD officer mistakenly shot a white police officer under similar circumstances?
Tags:Al Sharpton, American racism, Andrew Duton, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights Movement, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Doomsday Clock, Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse, Highland Park New Jersey Police, Jersey City New Jersey Police Department, New Brunswick New Jersey Police Department, New York Post, NYPD, Omar Edwards, racial profiling, Rutgers University, Time magazine
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A Tempest in a Teapot Is a Tempest No Less
Friday, April 17th, 2009“Most Film and Media dept. faculty know that Gregg can raise issues in ways that are contentious.” Blanca Vasquez, Adjunct Instructor.
Before she embarked on a path to ingratiate herself into D:F/M – or perhaps before I knew she had embarked – Blanca Vasquez and I commiserated occasionally about some of its sordid features. For example, the reputation of a College Lab Technician known for his dedication to students and his technical smarts inspired a fully tenured professor who, flushed in villainy and stealth and paranoia, orchestrated the demise of the CLT as a member of D:F/M.
I kid you not.
Tags:Academic Politics, Blanca Vasquez, D:F/M, Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse, Hunter-L, Office Politics
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