[AGL] "Dr" Jill Biden

[Charles Loving]

Mr EIesenstadt..who gives a shit what you think? Go cry that Trump Lost.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 10:17 AM Byron Allen Black <
englishcorrection at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this a new fad, like stuffing college kids in a Volkswagen or doing
> panty-raids? (Sorry, I'm 11 time zones away so I don't keep up with what's
> hot and what's not).
>
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 18:53, Bill Killeen <bill.killeen094 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I’m with Fontaine.  Please dump me, as well.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2020, at 6:24 AM, Michael Eisenstadt <
>> mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  As you wish.
>>
>> On 12/16/2020 1:57 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:
>>
>> You know, I don't have room in my life to read the babblings a foolish
>> old men. Take me off of this list.
>>
>>    Fontaine
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 06:58:14 PM CST, James Holland
>> <jholland123 at comcast.net> <jholland123 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The only time I see Ph.D. after my name is when I get the stuff from
>> U.T.  I've managed to eliminate it elsewhere.  You're dead on about the
>> title of Mr. at the better universities.  And about the usefulness of a
>> humanities Ph.D.
>>
>> But an Ed. D. is Doctorate Lite.  Since the educationists substituted
>> pedagogy itself as a degree at the expense of actual subject matter the
>> public schools have been, if not completely screwed, at least fed the date
>> rape drug.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Austin-ghetto-list [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net]
>> On Behalf Of Michael Eisenstadt
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 11:52 AM
>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
>> Subject: [AGL] "Dr" Jill Biden
>>
>> First Lady-elect Jill Biden doesn’t even have a PhD, but instead an EdD,
>> famous across academia for being an easy way for school administrators
>> to inflate their credentials and get a bigger paycheck. While PhDs at
>> least have to slave away for half a decade, balancing coursework and a
>> dissertation with teaching requirements, Lady Biden’s degree was only a
>> three-year part-time commitment. Not only that, but only a 2.75
>> undergraduate GPA is required to enter the program. Cockburn has met
>> furniture that could manage a 2.75 at American colleges (it helps if the
>> furniture can play basketball).
>>
>> When I got my Ph.D. I had to talk my mother out of addressing letters to
>> me as Dr. Michael E... At classy universities, professors with Ph.D.s
>> are addressed as Mister or Mrs. At community/junior colleges it is all
>> the rage for marginal academics with Ph.D.'s in sports management or
>> similar to insist on being called Doctor.
>>
>> It is amusing how MLK is referred to as The Reverend Doctor Martin
>> Luther King, Jr.. King got a Ph.D. in theology from Boston University
>> but it has come out that he plagarized his Ph.D. dissertation. He is the
>> only American who has a Federal holiday. So much for Washington and
>> Lincoln, both bad whites. Still and all King advocated pacifism in the
>> righteous struggle for civil rights for negroes and spoke out against
>> the Viet Nam war. So all in all I count him as one of the good guys. Why
>> he needed a Ph.D. escapes me. So he faked his dissertation. So what? I
>> had an acquaintance, a gifted mathematician unable to complete his
>> studies who solved that problem by conferring on himself a Ph.D. and put
>> himself forth to the world as having a real Ph.D. Considering the work I
>> had to do to earn a real Ph.D and for its utter uselessness for me in
>> real life. I wish I had thought of Roy Lisker's stategem myself.
>>
>>
>>

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Charlie Loving
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