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meanwhile, the petition put up by joel pust and jeff jordan has gathered over 200 signatures, and i must say it's quite a lineup. by all means sign if you can be plausibly described as an academic and if you haven't already.
crispy on April 27, 2016 at 04:25 PM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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so amazed and pleased that the gofundme campaign has exceeded its goal! i am leaving it up, for legal expenses are likely to well exceed this. but thank you so much, folks. you're on the right side on this one. also, a petition is circulating for academics to express their...misgivings about dickinson's actions.
crispy on April 23, 2016 at 05:45 AM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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to repeat, what got me thinking that i wanted to make a (smooth!) transition out of academia is not that i've been so neglected or got bit so hard, etc. it is the ever-intensifying atmosphere of extreme speech restrictions (which, however, is not a new problem), and the complete, enforced unanimity and relentless self-congratulation on a politics i regard as obviously irrational, as incoherent. however, even if noodle socialism was obviously the only rational position, enforcing unanimity on it by overwhelming social and professional sanctions would be wrong and it is wildly incompatible with the values these people and institutions profess. as it is, you who advocate it have no idea whether it is true or not, having purified your environment of all objections and objectors.
specifically the last straw was the apa anti-bullying thing, in which major intellectual figures express themselves like whining school-children, and luridly display their authoritarianism. well, any place you stop on the road to serfdom is arbitrary. but seriously, i cannot teach what i think should be taught nor write what i think should be written in that atmosphere. once again, though, i hadn't quit, and i certainly would never quit or resign in the middle of a semester and ditch my students and so on, and as i said i was too chicken-shit not come up with a slow plan that would leave me with health insurance and an income and stuff.
crispy on April 21, 2016 at 08:19 AM in academia, scandal | Permalink
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what's moving me more than anything, in email, on facebook, on gofundme, is people who remember me as a teacher, from every phase of my career from babyprof at vandy to this year at dickinson. i never had much luck being valued by the institutions, but i really have cherished many of my students and tried to help them and share my enthusiasms. people remember that! when i was thinking a transition out of academia, i was also thinking that i'd always find a context to teach as well.
i was really wildly overconfident about everything as this unfolded, and at this point i am left wondering whether i will ever be able to teach again anywhere. this thing where everyone's only defense of their own actions is that they were dealing with a violent lunatic will make anyone leery of putting you anywhere close to students. but one thing i notice about human beings: they don't actually care about each other very much. they care about social self-exculpation. they care about how they think they look to other people, but not about those other people, even friends, family, etc. i feel like a mere image in other people's solipsistic hall of mirrors or self-esteem drama.
i wish i was thinking something else right now. well, the support helps me try to think that we are not all only using each other to prop up our own public image or to help construct a false self-image. i'm sort of hoping that god or something can work a redemption, or free us to make contact with each other and not just treat other people as symbols or place-markers in the apparently infinite self-regarding emptiness within each of us.
crispy on April 20, 2016 at 06:08 AM in academia, me, scandal | Permalink
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one hundred contributors on gofundme.com/freeprofcrispy! it's true, i was worried that i'd end up with $38, 25 contributed by me. this is very encouraging, and things will occur.
someday somehow i'm going to write this whole story up; it has many amazing comedic elements, for one thing; i'm already choreographing the catfight between miranda lambert and my ex-wife; sketching out the anarchist jurisprudence, etc. i have paid, moderately, to see will ferrell go through a few weeks like i've been going through. admittedly it's hard to keep track of the hilarity when you have a toothache and no dental insurance. man it's always a surprise when the bourgeoisie pulls over, kicks you out the car, and leaves you by the side of the road, hitchin. but it does happen to people quite often one way or the other.
like pimpin, insanity is straight-up hard work.
crispy on April 19, 2016 at 10:33 AM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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As many have advised, I have 'lawyered up.' I'm represented by Jim Lieber of the Pittsburgh firm Lieber, Hammer, Huber, and Paul.
So much gratitude to everyone that's thrown me some $$ on www.gofundme.com/freeprofcrispy! Money will be handled scrupulously, applied exclusively to legal expenses. (Keep it coming; this will mount fast and still 2k short of goal.)
Also, I am so glad that the AAUP agrees that something went terribly wrong with Dickinson's process. The person they addressed it to, Pres Nancy Roseman, announced her resignation a day or two before the letter was sent (my case is not why she left). That will leave the person who removed me, Neil Weissman, as acting president. I don't know how that affects the whole thing: not for the better, perhaps.
crispy on April 14, 2016 at 09:30 AM in academia, dickinson, jurisprudence, scandal | Permalink
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In brief, I did not resign and I do not resign, and I explicitly declared that I did not resign the day before the deadline they gave me, even as they continued to assert publicly that I was on leave and a member in good standing of the faculty.
I regarded myself as having been effectively fired. I expressed myself in bitterness and sadness, after a terrible humiliation and breach of my free speech, to the effect that I did not intend to return. I sought a dignified separation agreement that would allow me to retire and make me something like whole financially. It was pointedly not forthcoming. I did not resign.
In my opinion, the reason that they decided to assert that I had resigned anyway is because the process for removing me, as specified in the Dickinson Handbook (a contractual obligation on the administration) would have been extremely embarrassing for Weissman and Scaduto, and unsustainable. I better have resigned, I believe they believe, or else their actions will be scrutinized by faculty members and become common knowledge in the community.
Dickinson College Handbook, see also the section on free expression.
Even as I walked into the meeting with Weissman and Scaduto, I had no idea what would happen, or that something like what has happened - removed without recourse - was even one of the possibilities. Faculty people at Dickinosn and everywhere need to think about what the guarantees of free expression and a fair and elaborate disciplinary process or tenure mean when push comes to shove. All were instantly and unilaterally suspended in my case.
crispy on April 11, 2016 at 04:40 PM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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People are really wanting a timeline again - in the context of the coverage at Leiter Reports and the freeprofcrispy gofundme site for legal expenses - this time focusing on my employment relation to Dickinson College. Alright,
Feb 27: I said in this blog entry that I wanted to get out of academia. I also said that I wasn't quitting Monday or whatever, and what I was thinking was an early retirement and a transition to full-time writing of some sort.
Here is a timeline, with documents of how the plagiarism accusation unfolded, and then the way the Oklahoma and Dickinson police got involved, etc.
March 3: Neil Weissman - the Provost (#2 person) at Dickinson - and Dana Scaduto, the General Counsel, after meeting with me for an hour, removed me from the classroom until I had a compulsory psychiatric examination "as a condition of employment" (despite the fact that I had expressed my willingness to have an examination voluntarily and waive confidentiality). They explicitly asked what I would do if arrested by Oklahoma authorities, and Weissman repeatedly asserted that I had threatened Zagzebski's life as Scaduto listened and confirmed his interpretation, or at least did not object to it.
When I refused, they gave me a few minutes to leave campus or be escorted off.
March 9: I asked in the nicest possible way, for early retirement and some sort of severance package, hoping to pay off my student loans at last.
This entry includes the email exchange with Weissman, including the fact that I said "I am not coming back." I must say that in the immediate aftermath, I was outraged, deeply humiliated, really feeling wrong about my students. It is also true that it would under any circumstances be very difficult for me to decide to return if the same administrators were in place; the institution showed that its values were incompatible with my work, and that they placed no value on my contribution over the last 13 years, during which I had been reviewed a number of times very positively, including for tenure, and during which I had never had any disciplinary-type problems whatever.
But again, I would be seeking an early retirement. And I would listen to offers, ideas, alternatives, respectful separation arrangements that would not leave me in a desperate financial condition. I did not resign, and I do not.
my cv
When they remove you from campus and ban you from returning while inflicting maximum humiliation on you, let me tell you this: you feel that you have been fired. Or, I might just say: you have been fired, no matter what they say. But they also did not say, through the end of March, that I had resigned; instead they claimed I was "a faculty member in good standing."
March 10: They replied with an astonishingly insulting offer, including the stipulation that I have a compelled psychiatric examination before I could enter the campus.
Here is the severance offer.
When I responded negatively, they immediately sent a revised separation agreement, also dated March 10, with a 30k lump sum and a campus ban.
Here is the revised separation agreement. The agreement stipulates that I must respond by March 31. On March 30, I sent Weissman and Scaduto the following email:
To Neil Weissman and Dana Scaduto
From Crispin Sartwell
I do not accept the separation agreement dated March 10. Nor do I resign my position; you will have to go through the Handbook procedure for removing me.
Crispin Sartwell
Associate Professor of Philosophy
The March 31 issue of the Dickinsonian reported that 'Provost Neil Weissman says that Sartwell "remains a member of our faculty on leave."'
He said the same in the March 8 issue.
And this is from Reason Magazine online, dated March 16.
In Reason magazine online, Dickinson spokesperson Christine Baksi characterized Sartwell as "on leave," in an email to Reason.
"Professor Sartwell is a faculty member in good standing at Dickinson," she wrote. "He is currently on leave.
from Dana Scaduto, April 4.
Starting on March 3, 2016, Dickinson College allowed time for you to consider and select among options that would have allowed you to return to active service or request a leave of absence. You did neither. Instead, on March 8, when Neil Weissman reiterated the college's interest in your return to the classroom, rather than your departure, you advised Neil Weissman in an e-mail as follows: "Neil i am definitely gone! i have retired."
Consequently, without obligation but in response to your specific request, on March 10, we tendered a separation agreement to assist you in transitioning from the college. We agreed to allow you twenty-one days to consider the terms of separation offer, during which time we continued to provide your salary and benefits. This continuation of salary and benefits was a courtesy. Your rejection of the terms of the proposed agreement is a separate and distinct issue from your resignation from the college based on the indisputable statement to Neil on March 8 that you had elected to end your service to the College. You reiterated this position publicly on multiple occasions, including most recently in a written statement you sent to the Dickinsonian on March 29 in which you stated, "No, i will not be accepting [the separation offer] and I will not return. . . . Not, in short, if it was the last college on earth."
For these reasons, asserting that you unquit in your message of March 30 is a position without merit. We do not have any obligation to invoke the dismissal procedures of the Academic Handbook as you are no longer an employee of the College.
from Human Resources director Debra Hargrove, :
Prof. Sartwell,
Your employment with Dickinson College ended effective March 31, 2016. Attached is some general information about your benefits that we hope will assist in this transition.
If you would like to make arrangements to remove personal property from your office, please contact the Provost's Office to coordinate a mutually convenient time.
Your final pay was deposited into your account on March 31, 2016. A printed copy of the payroll advice will be mailed to the address on file. Your health care benefits will end on April 30, 2016 unless you decide to continue those benefits available to you through COBRA, as described in the attached brochure.
I sent this email to Dana Scaduto on April 4:
crispy on April 11, 2016 at 03:32 PM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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i've set up a gofundme drive for legal expenses. this is going to run to money i don't really have.
crispy on April 08, 2016 at 03:52 PM in academia, dickinson, freedom, jurisprudence, scandal | Permalink
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i have been officially terminated by dickinson college, as of march 31, without appeals process or compensation, for precisely posting a miranda lambert video on my blog, and the fact that this shows that i am dangerously insane. they may well claim that i resigned: this can be shown to be false with documents. yes, i am lawyering up, aaup investigation, and so on. i did not realize how far we are from free.
crispy on April 07, 2016 at 05:12 PM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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One aspect of this: compare the discussions in
my paper "Why Knowledge is Merely True Belief", section 3 (Journal of Philosophy, 1992),
in Ward Jones's paper "Why Do We Value Knowledge?", section 2 (American Philosophical Quarterly, 1997)
and in Linda Zagzebski's paper "The Search for the Source of the Epistemic Good", section 1 (Metaphilosophy, 2003).
They are remarkably similar.
This is how my students appropriate, when they do: they cut and paste off Wikipedia (or whatever it may be), then replace a few synonyms with synonyms, recast slightly, etc. Both Jones and Zagzebski do that with my discussion.
But I call Zagzebski's plagiarism and not Jones's. Jones does introduce the argument with a quote from me, and I feel he does enough to avoid plagiarism. For one thing, someone interested in this argument or this question would naturally be directed to my papers by Jones's discussion.
Now it is just possible that Zagzebski cribbed the discussion from Jones. But then, she does not footnote Jones at all, so that would also be misconduct. And I will say again that though Zagzebski does give a reference to my papers, it is just a wave that indicates no connection at all to the relevant argument. I feel she does directly misuse the material, either mine (pretty obviously, I think) or Jones's. Either way...
crispy on March 26, 2016 at 10:12 AM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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if you're here looking for my scandal - links.
timeline, with documents
what happened at dickinson
pc'd to death: my internment in academic guantanamo
media coverage
zagzebski cheat sheet
zagzebski's libels
one more time: linda zagzebski is the only person i have accused of plagiarism. but i am also trying to establish that i invented the swamping problem in epistemology.
how i invented the swamping problem
swamped by ward jones
in the swamp with jonathan kvanvig (who treated the whole thing responsibly)
swamp warfare with wayne riggs (the chair at oklahoma who, according to zagzebski, called the cops to deal with an accusation of academic misconduct against his fellow swamp thing)
marian david on the swamp thing
crispy on March 25, 2016 at 04:48 AM in academia, dickinson, philosophy, scandal | Permalink
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just to begin the re-defense of 'knowledge is merely true belief': say you had some commitment to economy, ockham's razor, the simplest law-like explanation for apparently disparate phenomena. (that's supposedly stephen hawking's first criterion of theory choice, e.g.) don't you think you should see how far you can get with k=tb? not going to find a simpler among the proposed theories of knowledge, i believe (truly).
[nuthin, i just love this song.]
crispy on March 23, 2016 at 06:35 PM in epistemology, scandal, swamping | Permalink
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Again, I want to say that I haven't accused anyone except Zagzebski of plagiarism. Another person mentioned by Pritchard as a source of the swamping problem is Wayne Riggs, the chair at Oklahoma who according to Zagzebski said that I sent him a threatening email, which is demonstrably false. That got me threatened with arrest, fired, and held to be insane. That Riggs shows up again here as someone who's fundamental to the swamping problem is really quite the little coincidence.
Perhaps the massively excessive reaction begins to make sense. Either way, Dickinson College's response was truly disgusting, something that must disturb every member of its faculty.
At any rate, in Reliability and the Value of Knowledge (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, January 2002), he attributes the problem to Ward Jones, who certainly got it from me, and to Zagzebski (however, to an earlier book [Virtues of the Mind] and paper ['From Reliabilism to Virtue Epistemology']), and to Kvanvig (see note, p. 80). Like everyone else, starting with me, he saw that it was a fundamental challenge to reliabilism.
But obviously Riggs could really have gotten it from Jones and Zagzebski, and I don't see any cut-and-paste, etc. Still there too it derives from me, I believe, because at a minimum it derives from Jones and Zagzebski, who got it from me.
crispy on March 23, 2016 at 01:44 PM in academia, dickinson, epistemology, scandal, swamping | Permalink
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One thing about the swamping problem: whatever you may think of the thesis that knowledge is merely true belief, I don't think that anyone could have come up with the problem unless they had been focused very critically on the function of justification, someone who was skeptical about regarding justification as necessary for knowledge. And I think that perverse as the position was, it has turned out to be of use to the profession!
That is what I do, I feel, better than anyone working, more or less. I'm not necessarily smarter than the average analytic epistemologist, and i do make mistakes. But I focus on counter-consensus moves kind of automatically. So, if you want to remake part of a discipline or a topic, try this: what are the first few ground-clearing intuitions/assumptions that make everything else possible? These are often inadequately or not even argued for, and often I find when I think about it a little, I don't think they're obvious or even true at all.
That's how I did the swamping problem in Cargile's seminar at UVA, probably '87. I was probing for the assumption that would give a lever (and show my cleverness and profundity, etc). So we did Alvin Goldman's reliabilism, and something just seemed sort of off to me, like that's really just redundant: knowledge is a true belief that is reached by a reliable method for reaching...true belief. Well, what are we after then? What's our goal? Obviously or explicitly just true belief, so the method is merely instrumental to the real admitted telos. Then I started trying to generalize it and that's how I found all those quotes from Bonjour, Moser, Armstrong that Zagzebski and Jones recycled. Without that sort of reasoning, or to save some pet version of justification, no one would ever have generated the swamping problem.
Also I would say you better get out of a narrow frame. Actually, what was driving me was Kierkegaard; I thought that analytic epistemology just deployed definitionally a cult of reason that was really impoverishing and unrealistic. That's why I wanted to delete the justification condition in the first place. No one conducts their epistemic lives in the way the analytic trad suggests we all ought to; and anyone who did would just be gross and inhuman. So that's what made me probe for weaknesses. Ask any of these other alleged originators how and why they thought of this...
So a more recent version of this move is that I assert that free will is not required for moral responsibility. I submitted it here and there with no luck; still getting the 'that's ridiculous' response. But it will be in the ethics chapter of Entanglements. If nothing else, it will really press people in the free will problem to think hard about the initial assumptions. I think it could make a positive difference and I think again that it will be vindicated.
crispy on March 23, 2016 at 11:41 AM in academia, epistemology, scandal, swamping | Permalink
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Another locus classicus of the swamping problem is Jonathan Kvanvig's The Value of Knowledge and The Pursuit of Understanding (2003) (here it is on amazon). Kvanvig does much better: he sets the whole thing up as an attempt to deal with the problem I raised (i.e. the swamping problem). Man, I really should have been paying attention! But then by the time you get to Pritchard and Turri's Stanford Encyclopedia article, I've dropped out of the bibliographies. I'll have a look at some of Kvanvig's earlier papers.
When I finally get back up to speed, I'll make this sucker stick against virtue epistemology and all the other alleged answers. K=TB, baby.
One way this happened, I think, was that everyone agreed that my position was ridiculous (and like I say many of the eminences of epistemology gathered at at APA in '92 or '93 and tried to crush it). One problem was that if I was right, the whole of analytic epistemology after Gettier was kind of a waste of time; I thought my position was a fun and useful provocation, but I can see how people might not want that, and the book was never published (originally I submitted it to the same Cambridge series that eventually did Kvanvig).
But then again, my argument did present one fundamental challenge: the 'swamping problem' or 'the problem of the value of knowledge.' For one thing, it just destroyed reliabilism. So people managed to absorb that, then maybe thought they'd be discredited by association with my insane conclusion? Everyone who tried to answer the problem or build on it, including Kvanvig, Jones, and Zagzebski, answered it on behalf of JTB or used it to build toward relatively fresh but not apparently bizarre conclusions (the way it drove virtue epistemology as a theory of justification). So that was a lot more palatable to everyone, and they wanted to forget where I drove it, so they wanted to forget where it came from.
Anyway, I am going to arm up (as it were) and reassert that (propositional) knowledge is merely true belief against all comers, virtuous, social, and whatnot. Then you can repress it again, so it might take another century or so, but finally people will capitulate to the obvious, no matter whom they attribute it to. One remark: the reason people have such strong 'intuitions' that knowledge requires more than truth and belief is because for a philosophy prof, whatever they said in intro when you were 18 is a baseline truth you remember from before birth. Guess what? There is no such intuition.
crispy on March 23, 2016 at 08:41 AM in epistemology, scandal, swamping | Permalink
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I do want to establish that I invented the swamping problem, and I really am just returning to the discourse in epistemology, so I've had to try to catch up. Meanwhile yet another revision of the charge sheet on Zagzebski; I will get this exactly right eventually. (Replaced in timeline as well.)
Duncan Pritchard, in a draft paper titled What is the Swamping Problem?, gives the following pedigree.
This difficulty is the so-called 'swamping problem', as defended most prominently by Jonathan Kvanvig (e.g., 2003), but also put forward in various forms by Ward Jones (1997), Richard Swinburne (1999; 2000), Wayne Riggs (2002), Linda Zagzebski (2003) and John Greco (forthcominga).
I am going to try to go at these in order, one at a time. Ward Jones' paper (American Philosophical Quarterly, October 1997), early on sets up the question with a quotation from me (page 424), and section 2 is a remarkably close recapitulation of section 3 of my journal of philosophy paper.
He formulates the problem in just my terms, attacks reliabilism with it as I did, then actually brings the same quotations to bear as I did, and Zagzebski.
Jones p. 427:
I have been discussing the reliabilist in particular, but I should reemphasize that I consider the relibilist to be representative of epistemic instrumentalists. Laurence Bonjour, a coherentist, writes:
If epistemic justification were not conducive to truth in this way, if finding epistemically justified beliefs did not substantially increase the likelihood of finding true ones, then epistemic justification would be irrelevant to our main cognitive goal and of dubious worth. . . . Epistemic justification is therefore in the final analysis only an instrumental value, not an intrinsic one.
And Paul Moser, a foundationalist, writes:
Epistemic justification is essentially related to the so-called cognitive goal of truth, insofar as an individual belief is epistemically justified only if it is appropriately directed toward the goal of truth.
And me, p. 172-73:
Indeed, proponents of all the major conceptions of justification hold this position. For example, the foundationalist Paul Moser writes:
Epistemic justification is essentially related to the so-called cognitive goal of truth, insofar as an individual belief is epistemically justified only if it is appropriately related toward the goal of truth. More specifically, on the present conception, one is epistemically justified in believing a proposition only if one has good reason to believe it is true.
The reliabilist Alvin Goldman claims, similarly, that a condition on an account of justification is that beliefs justified on the account be likely to be true; he says that a plausible conception of justification will be "truth-linked" ( op. cit. 116-21) . And the coherentist Luaurence Bonjour puts it even more strongly. p. 173
If epistemic justification were not conducive to truth in this way, if finding epistemically justified beliefs did not substantially increase the likelihood of finding true ones, then epistemic justification would be irrelevant to our main cognitive goal and of dubious worth. It is only if we have some reason for thinking that epistemic justification constitutes a path to truth that we as cognitive beings have any motive for preferring epistemically justified beliefs to epistemically unjustified ones. Epistemic justification is therefore in the final analysis only an instrumental value, not an intrinsic one.
The quotes are obvious, but the whole discussion is a very close recapitulation of me. And of course, both these discussions are also identical to Zagzebski's. I will say that Jones also did a cut and paste from my paper, but at least he quoted me in proximity, and he comes closer to crediting me with the argument. But we will see that by every route that this argument entered the discourse, it derived from me.
crispy on March 23, 2016 at 06:55 AM in academia, epistemology, scandal | Permalink
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i never lost a job, i believe, except because i wouldn't join a party, or i said something a feminist might construe as objectifying or something. they leave you speculating at the time, but sometimes you learn what happened. i believe i lost the job i really wanted at vanderbilt, because of my crazed, palpable anti-semitism. idit dobbs-weinstein and julie klein - real pc killers - did not give me a chance to say meet my great grandfather. on my mother's side. they missed my daughter's bat mitzvah. somewhere in the process i picked up the outlines. i hope i managed to convey that i was jewish.
then it was sort of: we learn to hate ourselves in our oppression; sometimes jews are the biggest anti-semites! not talking about you, of course...but they did hear one of the counter-examples i used in my job talk, and were retraumatized from the holocaust. that's 1992, y'all. much worse now. the next month, the same paper appeared in the journal of philosophy, merely despised until zagzebski found it. i was also doing some politically suspect columns for the nashville banner, like the one where i argued in favor of school vouchers. that sort of thing will garner you some pointed silence, though no arguments.
i'll throw a paragraph at mica, a place that was beloved to me before i ever got there, having lived around the corner and fantasized the whole time about teaching philosophy to art students. they don't have tenure. they brought me in with the understanding that i was permanent and there were no issues, they were lucky to get me, they said. i gave up my tenure track job teaching journalism and media studies and advising the school paper at penn state harrisburg. this is what i'd always wanted.
i was on campus a couple of days after 9.11, and i had already recorded a spot for all things considered. they were looking for someone who would express any sort of anger, could not find one among their staff or usual contributors, i gather. i had been talking to my (now-deceased) brother jim, who was an unbelievable cynic, raconteur, and artist of the hyperbole. 'i want to fly over the middle east and see nothing but piles of smoking rubble.' i started there. you know, i too want vengeance. in fact this distinction between justice and vengeance is complete jive, just a way of pretending you don't want revenge, or collectivizing responsibility, effectively offloading it from everyone entirely. i had three minutes, years of argument behind it. then i said: but even if it is legitimate to take vengeance, you are morally obliged to take your vengeance only precisely on the perpetrators. no burning rubble, my brother, without osama & co inside it. only them.
next day, robert merrill (a senior colleague), confronted me in the hall and said "that was disgusting!" the next words out his mouth were 'osama is a freedom fighter!' i felt a marked cooling toward me and rallying around him after that.
then for whatever political reason, they put my job to a national search. i did 'six names of beauty' as the talk, just or soon-to-published by routledge. anyway, it defines beauty' as 'the object of longing.' then i put up my childhood crush emma peel. then i went on to buntings and roses and the universe as a whole. a lit prof, soheila ghaussy, hopped up and started saying my whole thing was just (paraphrasing) coming from the dick, and weren't millennia of oppression enough? they hired someone else, who did not work out at all.
oh, and then there's this, where i posted a miranda lambert song to my blog, which led to academics calling in the police and academics firing me. finally water-boarded to death!
what i have found over and over again is that teaching, research, and service are irrelevant in an academic career (research, for sure). the only real criterion of advancement is conformity. that's why you have all these mediocrities at the very upper reaches: mere careerists. that's why the senior level of the profession now is lilliputian compared to the last cohort. i think the last actually interesting or sincere president of the apa was stanley cavell. if stanley was starting out now, he'd be drummed out of the profession for even mentioning greer garson, or because of that weird beret.
to clarify, i am definitely not a progressive. but i am definitely not a reactionary. i think the whole thing makes no sense, which is why it's enforced with insane social sanctions. i define my position as anti-hierarchical: i am opposed to both state and economic hierarchies and think they go together. this position is incomprehensible to academics because it is internally consistent.
one conclusion i'd draw is that anything besides the noodly socialism that is unanimous in academia is incomprehensible to the people there. another is that in the long run it is impossible to be both a professor and any kind of honest opinion journalist.
herman or osama?
[this is drawn out of my entry out.]
crispy on March 20, 2016 at 08:31 AM in academia, autobiography, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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media coverage of coverage of my situation:
linda zagzebski news:
On the role of emulation of exemplars in aquiring virtue — Linda Zagzebski's 2015 Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews
linda zagzebski wins $95,500 grant to research her book, Moral Exemplars in Theory and Practice
washington post links to the reason article
reason magazine: professor kicked off campus, deemed security threat for posting miranda lambert video
veterans today: mike farrell, academic freedom and dystopia
inside higher ed: professor on leave after posting plagiarism accusations
(i will say once more that i did not accuse alexander nehamas of plagiarism)
pennlive (harrisburg news site): dickinson professor placed on leave after series of blog posts
philosophy blogs
leiter reports: philosopher crispin sartwell, dickinson college, and academic freedom
dickinsonian coverage:
march 3: philosophy professor placed on temporary leave
march 4: leave will not be temporary, says sartwell
march 10: peter soeller, 'sartwell targeted for extremism'
march 10: grier, cozort to cover sartwell's classes
crispy on March 18, 2016 at 11:39 AM in academia, dickinson, me, scandal | Permalink
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Absorb this series of events.
February 28: On my blog, I said that Linda Zagzebski, an eminent professor at the University of Oklahoma, had plagiarized my work, in a fundamental way. I provided what I regard as proof (though it took me awhile to nail it without mistakes).
My initial blog entry
As far as i can see, no one at Oklahoma or at Dickinson - or indeed anywhere else - ever carefully reviewed the charges.
My plagiarism charge against Linda Zagzebski
March 1: I wrote Wayne Riggs, the chair of the philosophy department at Oklahoma, an email warning him that I had made an accusation of academic misconduct against Zagzebski.
Zagzebski and/or Riggs, called the police in Oklahoma, on the ground that the initial post in which I made the charge was a death threat, because it contained a video of Miranda Lambert performing 'Time to Get a Gun.' (here is the video)
This entry includes the complete text of all emails I have ever sent Wayne Riggs
The police in Oklahoma swung into action and contacted the police at Dickinson College.
March 3: Neil Weissman - the Provost (#2 person) at Dickinson - and Dana Scaduto, the General Counsel, also did not bother assessing the plagiarism charge, but after meeting with me for an hour, removed me from the classroom until I had a compulsory psychiatric examination "as a condition of employment" (despite the fact that i expressed my willingness to have an examination voluntarily and waive confidentiality). They explicitly asked what I would do if arrested by Oklahoma authorities, and Weissman repeatedly asserted that I had threatened Zagzebski's life; that is, he directly accused my of a felony as Scaduto listened and confirmed his interpretation, or at least did not object to it
When i refused, they gave me a few minutes to leave campus or be escorted off.
March 9: I asked in the nicest possible way, in the face of outrageous violations of constitutional free speech and freedom of the press and basic academic freedom, for early retirement and some sort of severance package, hoping to pay off my student loans at last.
This entry includes the email exchange with Weissman.
March 11: Linda Zagzebski outrageously libeled me in the Daily Princetonian, saying that Riggs had received a threatening email from me, and describing me as mentally ill. (The piece is dated March 8, but I think the quotes from Zagzebski were added a few days later.)
Daily Princetonian article in which Zagzebski asserts that I sent Wayne Riggs a threatening email ("which provoked a security response") and says that it's sad that I have such bad mental problems
In short,
(1) Zagzebski and Riggs wielded the police and the press to conceal her plagiarism and get me fired and discredited, while as far as I can tell never having to address the plagiarism charge at all or herself undergo any disciplinary procedures.
(2) Police agencies in Oklahoma performed a direct act of government censorship on protected speech. Police agencies in Pennsylvania - specifically Dickinson DPS - colluded.
(3) The administration at Dickinson breathtakingly violated my free speech and free press rights, and their own canon of academic freedom, while impugning my sanity and accusing me of felonies.
Dickinson College Academic Handbook, section on academic freedom
(4) Dickinson College compromised their own students' education by profoundly interrupting a course for about 50 of them in the middle of the semester, scrambling for makeshift solutions.
crispy on March 18, 2016 at 03:16 AM in academia, dickinson, scandal | Permalink
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the french are so civilized! i have often heard people admiring their sexual mores; remember mitterand's funeral, where his wife made out with his mistress or whatever? so civilized are french men that they promise to be faithful to you and are fucking someone else that afternoon. and so civilized are french women that they don't mind that at all; in fact, they like it when you lie to them, which i admit is actually a feature of civilized societies. americans are so provincial and puritanical. so what the hell is valerie trierweiler doing in a hospital for a suicide attempt or whatever it may be? it is treason to the french republic! a civilized, open-minded man acts like dominique strauss-kahn. we need to emulate these behaviors, or else we'll get fat. oh, the wine, the food, the clothes, the accent! i can hardly bear the romantic civilizedness of it all. let's go to provence and rape some maids, honey.
crispy on January 21, 2014 at 03:06 AM in scandal, sex | Permalink
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In which Crusader AXE bitches about the events, all preceeding the Wikileaks disclosures to Julian Assange, in Bradley Manning's case and echoes Joseph Welch, Attorney for the US Army who asked Joe McCarthy "Do you have no shame, sir!" and bets even money on a sentence of ten years or less.
Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes on August 13, 2013 at 05:11 PM in Current Affairs, ethics, scandal, terror and war | Permalink
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In which CrusaderAXE comes to terms with the overwhelming existential truth of the age: Not only are we all bozos on this bus, the bus has a flat tire, broken axle, seized engine. (Excellent new Those Darlins
song at the link.)
Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes on July 31, 2013 at 09:46 PM in middle east, politics, scandal | Permalink
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I actually started this about the Amnesty International Campaign to free Pussy Riot, but digressed...part II which will be about religon and Pussy Riot and the silliness underlies Putin's version of the Surveillance/Big Brother state will be tomorrow or the next day...tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Post Script
I also posted this at Veterans Today which was interesting when I looked at the initial comments. I recommend visiting that site and reading the comments. I responded perhaps more gently than I should but when the comments indicated that I was prostituting myself for the Jewish-Communist-Lezbo conspiracy to pollute the precious body fluids of true Christian Americans, I thought I'd take the high ground. Your comments are welcome.
I am proud, proud I say, to prostitute myself in the service of the Lezbo-Jewish-Commie-Irish-American-Sein Fein-Marching Band and Chowder Society. In fact, I think I'll have T-shirts made. See if I can get some in Staid Francais Rugby colors. (Black and Pink...mainly Pink.)
Enjoy. More to come -- http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/07/23/theocratic-totalitarianism-in-the-new-russia-or-putinesque-is-not-a-style-of-spaghetti/
(This is a bribe. Complete Dylan Concert with the Band...)
Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes on July 23, 2013 at 05:49 PM in chechnya, Current Affairs, extreme sucking problem, politics, scandal | Permalink
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i never found my black cinderella. but we all found our black richard nixon. really. so just listen along, replacing her with him in the lyric. what progress means is that eventually there will be a female richard nixon, a latina richard nixon, one richard nixon each for l, b, g, t, and q, etc.
yo one run through that bassline is worth all the words that have ever come out of barack obama's mouth, and much more.
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the thing to take away from petraeus scandal - not that people are really capable of drawing conclusons like this, or they would have done it from infinite data around 2000 bc - is a vague recollection of what power actually is, and what sort of person actually wants it, and what people do with it when they get it. this is just a kind of hilarious thing: beyond hubris and tragedy into a realm of sheer narcissism, grotesque self-deception, and farce. so really, i want you to picture this situation; petraeus chooses broadwell as his biographer either because he's sleeping with her or because he wants to. then they spend months together working together on a hagiography of petraeus and screwing (if you believe this crap about how it only started later, you're a worse sucker than david's wife; it might be some sort of attempt to save the book, which ought to be vaporized except as a cautionary tale). let's say the wholly uncritical worship - whether it was sincere or not (and in this sort of hierarchy, sincerity and voluntariness are always pre-compromised) - had an erotic effect; petraeus finally realized how his sexuality was actually configured or what it was actually for: an orgy of the most mortifying self-love, gaucherie on a world-bestriding scale. petraeus is his own fetish. then broadwell's on her book tour with their stirring tribute to his extreme...excellence, giving him a blowjob on every news program and radio show, and then again at the hotel room that night. in brief, a pure ethic of public service.
normally i might have a certain sympathy with the 'human foibles'/hey that could happen to anyone/throw the first stone kind of approach. let's say you want to think that through before you apply it here. the person of petraeus exposed in the scandal is a conspicuously outstanding - a truly distinguished - nightmare.
i like privacy as much as the next guy, but i am not going to peg my argument for it on the example of an invasion of the privacy of the director of the cia, though like so many others i would die to protect it. i would love to hear him explicitly crying foul on that, though. i admit that the concept that someone is rummaging around in the email of the director of the cia is very surprising, unprecedented as far as i am recalling at all. indeed, it is potentially explosive; it seems to expose rival commanding factions in the security state, like you'd get in pakistan or iran: hard to say who's in charge of what, really. you start to wonder who controls the nukes. i wouldn't think we know the half of it between the fbi and the cia; it could well have to do with, like, rival adulterous sexual factions: rival procuresses and viagra suppliers, for example, rival studs and lovelies and distinguished old men peppered throughout the military, the secret service, defense contractors, lobbying firms, etc. well honestly what do you expect in that sort of authoritarian hierarchy? heroes?
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A Surprise Kanye West Show Was Kancelled After Too Many People Showed Up
Usually concerts get cancelled after a roadie peeks out from behind the curtain 5 minutes before show time and realizes the audience consists solely of a dozen stray cats who ended up there after following the smell of green room tuna sandwiches through an open stage door. It's less common for a show to get cancelled after too many people decide they want to see it. But that's what happened at 2 this morning.
We Finally Know What Kim Kardashian's Second Kid Looks Like
He looks like…A BABY! Can you even believe it? I can't.
In the grand Kardashian family tradition of sleepy-faced selfies, Kim Kardashian threw up the first real picture of her three-month-old baby Saint West on her website early this morning. Kim chose today to show us what Saint West's face looks like because it would have been her dad's 72nd birthday and that "there's nothing more in the world he would have wanted than to meet his grandchildren." Which is a little surprising. I always assumed the reason we hadn't seen Saint yet was because Kim was holding out for a cover of VOGUE or Son of God Weekly. You know, only the best for Kanye West's kid.
But back to Saint. I know babies sleep a lot, but I like to pretend that Baby Saint has his eyes closed on purpose. It was probably the first time he's seen Kim since his birth, and he realized it would be better to pretend to be asleep than to make small talk with the rubber-faced stranger and her kamera krew.
Of course, Kim also made sure to give some internet attention to her two other children this weekend by throwing up a picture of Kanye and North West taking a nap at a baby store yesterday to Instagram.
I'll be honest, if I had to listen to Kim's white noise vacuum cleaner voice, I'd be fast asleep too. Here's more of Kim, North, and the No.1 threat to Kris Jenner's decades-long investment shopping for baby shit with Chrissy Teigen and John Legend yesterday.
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Rob Kardashian Has Been Diagnosed With Diabetes
Because Rob Kardashian isn't nearly as pimpable as his sisters, he falls fairly low on the Keeping Up With The Kardashians kall sheet and we don't really see him that much on TV. We also don't see him in real life that often either, because Rob doesn't speed dial the paps every time he farts like the rest of them. The last we heard from Rob, he was maybe-addicted to cough syrup cocktails and dragging his sister on Instagram. Well, we have an update on Rob, and it's not great.
TMZ says that the Kardashian family sock mogul-turned-Kardashian family version of a Bigfoot sighting was rushed to the hospital on Sunday and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Apparently Rob had no idea that he was diabetic. Sources tell TMZ that Rob's official diagnosis is something called diabetic ketoacidosis. "Ketoacidosis? I think I injected that into my forehead once" thought Kim Kardashian.
Rob caught his diabeetus in the nick of time; according to TMZ, if he had ignored the sick feeling he felt on Sunday, he could have gone into a diabetic coma. A source says that if Rob starts to eat right (RIP all those late-night In-N-Out runs) and take care of himself, he can control his diabetes and maybe get it into remission.
Poor Kris Jenner; she must be so conflicted right now. On her right shoulder is a tiny angel consoling her after finding out that her only son is sick in a bad way with diabetes. On the left is a skanky devil screaming with glee and congratulating her on her great new story line for the next season of KUWTK. What am I saying? She totally flicked the angel off her shoulder and started doing celebratory vodka shots with the skanky devil.
Speaking of Rob's possible return, here's a kouple kast members working hard to avoid a KUWTK pay kut by strolling into a play gym earlier today.
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Pop A Bottle Of Sparkling Botox: Another Kardashian Has Entered This World
And I'm sure that before I even finish typing this sentence, a team of plastic surgeons will have already nipped, tucked, sucked, rotated, and filled Kim Kardashian back to her original pre-pregnancy rubber glory.
After being knocked up for what felt like six weeks (none of which could hold a candle to her museum-worthy first pregnancy), professional drowsy-faced reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her current husband Kanye West announced earlier today on her website that she's finally given birth to her second kid, a baby boy. Somewhere in the Kardashian Khompound (let's be honest – the nanny's quarters), North West just let out a giant sigh of relief after realizing she no longer had to go to Pimp Mama Kris' weekly 4-hour fame whore workshops by herself.
Kim and Kanye haven't released anything else about their baby's birth – like if he came out, took one look at who his parents are, and tried to crawl back in. But really, it's the Kardashians, so it's only a matter of time. A kamera krew was probably there to record the whole thing (Kris Jenner probably hired the original crew from Kim's sex tape, since they already had experience with lighting her crotch) and Kim's intern Kylie has no doubt already started Photoshopping all the wrinkles and womb goo off baby's face for his first Instagram selfie ("I woke up like this #nomakeup #natural #kuwtk #fittea").
Obviously, the only thing that matters is what kind of messy name nonsense Kanye wrote on the birth certificate. You're right, it's definitely SON OF GOD, in all-caps.
Pic: Splash
The Kartrashian Koven Is Trying To Destroy Rebel Wilson!
It goes without saying, but yeah, Rebel Wilson makes a better Victoria's Secret model than Kendall Jenner.
Rebel Wilson was a guest on the Australian radio show, Kyle & Jackie O, not long ago and she told them about the time she said "HELL NO" to presenting an award with Kendull and Kylie Jenner at the MTV VMAs. Rebel said that the Kartrashians stand for everything she is against and they didn't work for their fame. As far as I know, Rebel's comments didn't get any backlash at all. Everyone pretty much slow clapped for her. Well, everyone but Oprah's Kartrashian-loving ass slow clapped for her. But according to Rebel, deep down in Pimp Mama Kris' lair of evil, a publicist is carrying out a diabolical plan to smear her!!
Everybody Looked Absolutely Thrilled To Be At Kanye West's Fashion Show
It says everything when soulless grand dame of the Death Eaters, Anna Wintour, would rather pay attention to a human child than pay attention to the ~fashuns~ in front of her. To Anna Wintour, North West is like a cat at a boring party. She's so happy that child is there to distract her from the dumb, boring shit going on around her. Mark this day as the first day in history when Anna Wintour is happy to see a child she isn't about to suck the life out of.
Kanye West wasn't supposed to butt squirt out his latest collection of overpriced post-apocalyptic rags for Adidas during New York Fashion Week, but since his throbbing pus-filled ego will deflate if he doesn't take every opportunity to get as much attention as possible, he decided at the last-minute to do a show. Two designers who were scheduled to show at the same time Kanye suddenly decided to show weren't happy, because they knew he would overshadow them. One designer decided to show anyway and the other rescheduled.
I don't know why those designers are bitching. They need to shut the hell up and be thankful that his highness Kanye allowed them to show at Fashion Week in the first place. I mean, New York Fashion Week may as well be called New York Kanye Week since Kanye IS Fashion. Besides, I doubt those designers' collections are as innovative, forward and avant-garde as what Kanye queefed out. And of course I mean the opposite of that since this year's collection was as bland and basic as last year's.
Today adidas long term partner @kanyewest presented a collection as a designer in his own right. Congrats, Mr. West! pic.twitter.com/MRPM7vMlul
— adidas (@adidas) September 16, 2015
They all look like sad used condoms.
Kanye's kollection for Adidas is perfect for rich bitches who want to waste a lot of money to look like a malnourished desert hobo on the planet Tatooine or like a Walking Dead zombie who teaches aerobics. But what do I know about fasihon? How can I judge Kanye's genius designs when I'm sitting here wearing a droopy tank top and baggy beige sweatshorts. Oh, wait…
And Now For Kim Kardashian's Letter To Her Future Self
Yes, the person above knows what the word "future" means. I can't believe it either. Full-time drowsy-faced Instagram model and part-time mother Kim Kardashian "wrote" a letter to her future self for Glamour.com containing a list of her hopes and dreams for the next 10 years. Naturally, I assumed that letter was just a piece of paper with a bunch of dicks drawn on it in black pen, but it turns out it was an actual letter with actual words.
According to Kim's letter, Kim wants Future Kim to "remember to be kind" to herself about her body and to enjoy how she looks right now because she's "not getting any younger." Damn, present-day Kim is a cold-ass bitch. Kim also hopes that Future Kim is patient with her 12-year-old daughter, North West, who no doubt wants nothing to do with the vulcanized tire she calls a mother. Once she got all the superficial shit out of the way, Kim got into her real wishes: Kim hopes that Future Kim is still really good at contouring her face, and that science will have invented a green juice that keeps you tan forever. "Me too, girl," thought Rachel Dolezal.
"Am I still on fleek? Am I still hot? Please tell me I'm still hot. Oh lord, I'm not hot anymore, am I? Am I at least still hotter than Khloe?"
Here's more of present-day Kim, Kanye West, and about 2/3 of the Kardashian Koven at Disneyland for North's 2nd birthday. I heard they couldn't go on the It's A Small World ride. Apparently, there was too great a chance Kim would steal the head off the hippo and use it to pad the ass of her pants.
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Kongratulations To The Nanny Industry: Kim Kardashian Is Knocked Up Again
"Dayum, dem titties look like Riccardo's ass cheeks covered in glitter" is what future second-time dad Kanye West is thinking in that picture. Probably.
On a preview that aired after the mid-season finale of Krapping Up the Kartrashians, Kim Kartrashian lets it be known that North West is going to have a little brother or sister that Kanye West and she will probably name South West or Key West. But they really should name the kid Harpo West. I mean, every time Kim will come to collect her kids for a good old-fashioned photo-op strut on the stroll, North West will say to her brother or sister: "Harpo, who dis woman?"
After all the IVF treatments and shit, Kummy Kakes announced that she's got a womb full of another baby that will only wear black, white and beige and will have to dodge Pimp Mama Kris as she tries to suck their young blood from their veins. via E! News
The clip shows Kim hearing the exciting news during a doctor's appointment shortly before spilling the beans to Khloé Kardashian.
"I just got the blood test back, and I am pregnant!" Kim—who's beaming ear-to-ear—exclaims to her stunned sister.
That's your cue to brace your eyeballs for picture after picture of a pregnant Kim looking like a sausage exploding in slow motion and her hooves looking like suffocating ham hocks in distress:
Also, Kim tweeted this about the moment in tonight's episode where she, North, Kylie and Khlozilla get in a kar accident in Montana:
If u only saw Northie's reaction! As a mom I got protective and left that scary moment out of the episode for her privacy
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 1, 2015
"For her privacy"? "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA," laughed Pimp Mama Kris before saying, "Kim, you're kidding right, because we signed a contract with Satan and promised we'd pimp out our own at any cost. Just say you're kidding."
Kim Kardashian Helped Konvince Kylie Jenner To Get Lip Injections
"I am SHOCKED!!!"…is what I would say if this news wasn't the definition of DUH. Although, to be honest, I am a little surprised it wasn't Pimp Mama Kris who convinced Kylie Jenner to stuff her lips full of fillers. But that's what happens when you spend 90% of your day in the Kardashian Khompound's 'lower office' (aka the 7th circle of Hell) kounting your kash and brainstorming new ways to pimp out your family with Satan's public relations expert; you really start to forget about the things that truly matter, like encouraging your 17-year-old to get plastic surgery.
During an interview with Access Hollywood, (via People), Kim Kardashian admitted that she helped prepare Kylie for the Kardashian family initiation ritual of walking into a surgeon's office and asking for whatever looks the least natural. In Kylie's case, it was having a hunk of CyberClean injected into her lips. But she totally did it out of love, you guys!
"I saw how for so many years she was so insecure about [her lips]. I mean, at 10 years old, she would say to me, 'How come my lips aren't big like you guys?' And I would see this insecurity … For me, I gave her advice and I still stand by that advice. I think it changed her confidence so much."
To be fair, that's not really specific to Kylie; I'm sure if any of us grew up around a pack of drowsy-faced silicone-enthusiasts, we'd start to question why we didn't look like them too.
But what I really want to know is what other procedures Kim pitched to Kylie. "Are you sure you just want to stick to lips? You know you get a discount if you bundle lips, ass, and tits, right? Plus, they'll throw in a complimentary nose job."
Speaking of more rubber than a new set of tires, here's Kim giving the nannies a 10-second break by picking North West from a dance class yesterday, as well as Kourtney Kardashian and Penelope Disick working the hell out of a super cool birthday cake hat.
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Kim Kartrashian Cut Her Self-Promotion Tour Through Armenia Short To Baptize North West In Jerusalem
Alternate title: North West Baptized In The Middle East
Kim Kartrashian, Khlozilla, Kanye West, North West and E!'s camera crew were supposed to stay in Armenia for 8 days, but I guess they got all the footage they needed and if they need to do reshoots they can always build an exact replica of the Armenian Genocide Memorialin a studio in the San Fernando Valley somewhere. So after Kummy Kakes got her bleached b-hole sucked by the Prime Minster and made sure everyone could see her at the Armenian Genocide Memorial and greeted the people like she's the fucking Princess Diana of Armenia, she cut her visit short by 3 days to take her goodwhore ambassador tour to Israel. Just when you think that Israel has been through it all, the Kartrashians visit it.
E! News says that Kim, Kanye, Khlozilla and North West all left Armenia early this morning and took a private plane to Jerusalem to baptize the Kardashian family's newest little money maker. North West's baptism was an intimate, low-key event and what I mean by that is that they were mobbed by the paparazzi Kim called and E!'s camera crew shot the whole thing for an episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. North West's baptism happened at the St. James. Cathedral in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem. Kim must have gotten a look-alike to go into the church with North West, because I haven't read any reports about how the church burst into flames and collapsed as soon as she walked in.
Since Anna Wintour and Beyonce probably said "no thank you" to being North West's godmother, Khlozilla did the honors. North isn't going to have a godfather so the priest played that role during the ceremony.
North West's baptism was just one, great big stunt for Kim's reality shit show, but it's still a good thing for North West. Because now that she's been dipped in the holy water of the holy hand, Pimp Mama Kris can never hold her. The next time PMK tries to hold North West, that baby's blessed skin will burn off the demon leather on PMK's claws and the only way she'll be able to stop the burning is to dip her hands in the blood of a sacrificed goat. It's just not worth it. So YAY for North West for that.
And before Kanye left Armenia, he did a free concert in Yerevan where he baptized himself as an attention whore by jumping into Swan Lake:
You'd think that as a Gay Fish, he'd be a lot more graceful in the water.
Here's more of Kim and Khlozilla being treated like damn royalty in Armenia:
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Industrial Security Trends & Best Practices
By Paul Didier of Cisco
Industrial Automation & Control Systems, Smart Grids, SCADA, Plant-wide Ethernet and smart transportation systems are all driving the Internet of things. More and more machines, controllers, sensors, meters, motors, drives, actuators, I/O, remote cameras, the stuff that makes up production and operations infrastructure is being connected via standard networking technologies. The productivity gains, sustainability improvements, optimized energy consumption and other benefits are dependent on this trend being securely deployed.
Issues and Trends
Stuxnet, son-of-Stuxnet (a.k.a. Duqu), Illinois Water district attacks, all these events have manufacturers, utilities and owners of industrial networks on edge. The key in these attacks is that they are deliberate, external and damaging. This goes well beyond the very real and damaging impacts of the un-intentional, internal incidents where a virus or inadvertent action causes a plant outage. The current malware attacks may not be "widespread", but they are distributed and sophisticated leaving many feeling un-easy and concerned about the security of their industrial networks.
There is also no turning back. If there is one lesson from the above, disconnecting or "air-gapping" the industrial networks as they used to be is not a solution. These attacks found ways around such mechanisms. The point is that the need to share, exchange data and bring in remote expertise will drive most users of industrial networks to integrate in some way. And, if this is true, then best prepare for this integration by developing a security approach to do that.
A clear trend is that Enterprises with industrial networks are taking action. They are performing reviews of their security stance:
- What are the policies and standards we currently have?
- How well are they implemented?
- What issues/problems do we have?
- What requirements apply to our industry?
- Where do we need to be from a security perspective?
- How will we change/improve the situation?
Priorities, Policies and Governance
The first consideration in regards to Security for production environments is to recognize the financial considerations and priorities in terms of key objectives. Typically, downtime for production facilities is counted in hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per hour. It is driven by lost production, unused capital assets, personnel costs, energy costs, cost to repair and other penalties or issues due to production failures. It can include loss of Intellectual Property and corruption of critical data. If the event is made public, the cost to a company's value and reputation drastically increase the impact.
Typically, the security priorities are summarized in 3 terms:
- Availability: The ability to preserve operational continuity. Information, data, services, networks, applications, and resources should be accessible in a timely manner when needed.
- Integrity: The ability to preserve the authenticity of information, data, service, and configurations and to help ensure no unauthorized clients unexpectedly or covertly modifies any of these aspects.
- Confidentiality: The ability to maintain the privacy and confidential nature of potentially private or sensitive information, and to help ensure that only authorized entities have access to it. This applies both to data at rest and data in transit during communication.
In production environments, typically the order of priority of these is first Availability, second Integrity and then Confidentiality. The opposite of the priority in typical IT Security, where Confidentiality is first, Integrity second and last is Availability. That makes a big difference in the way security is approached
Interesting though is that even given this significant difference in security priorities between production and IT environments, most enterprises have an IT Security policy, but nothing specific to production. The key source of guidance, rules and policy on security lacks a perspective on the most critical part of many enterprises: their production facilities, SCADA networks and other industrial networks. The result is that most enterprises have widely different levels of security for production facilities and a variety of solutions inconsistently implemented and maintained. This also leads them into situations that make it difficult to take full advantage of the standard industrial network's value. Who is going to allow enterprise-level remote access to either appropriate employees or partners if you cannot be sure that their access will be secure?
This is beginning to change and probably the first, or at least one of the initial steps an Enterprise can take to improve the Industrial Security situation: establishment of a Product Security Policy. This policy should be established and governed by a combination of existing IT Security governance with strong influence from the Production organization.
Architectures and Best Practices
As an enterprise begins this process of examining the Security stance of its industrial networks and establishing the Production Security Policy for those networks, they often look for frameworks or architectures to give context to the policies. Additionally, an understanding of the best practices is important to give guidance as to what is achievable and what may require extra effort to achieve.
For a framework, there are two key models that help structure a production environment. First, the Purdue Model for Control Hierarchy is a common and well-understood model in the manufacturing industry that segments devices and equipment into hierarchical functions. It has been incorporated into many other models and standards in the industry. Based on this segmentation of the plant technology, the International Society of Automation ISA-99 Committee for Manufacturing and Control Systems Security has identified the levels and logical framework that identifies zones to which Security concepts and policies can be applied. These are represented in the figure below.
The key security best practices that apply to the Manufacturing and Cell/Area zone include:
- Manufacturing/Production Security Policy - A policy focused on Production facilities that reflects the different operational priorities vs. the Enterprise network is a basis for best practice organizations. A multi-discipline team of operations, engineering, IT and safety should develop this Production security policy. The policy should cover topics such as DMZ, segmentation, access (remote and local), physical security, update frequency and operational responsibilities.
- Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) - This buffer zone provides a barrier between the Manufacturing and Enterprise zones, while allowing users to securely share data and services. All network traffic from either side of the DMZ terminates in the DMZ. No traffic traverses the DMZ, which means that traffic does not directly travel between the Enterprise and Manufacturing zones. For the DMZ to be most effective, it needs to be the only point of access into and out of the Manufacturing zone. Remote access via a modem located behind the firewall is essentially an unmanaged back door that may represent a threat.
- Defending the manufacturing edge - Users should deploy stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewalls (barriers) with intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) around and within the IACS network.
- Authentication, Authorization and Auditing (AAA) - A process should be established that production users (remote and local) are authenticated and new devices on the network are approved. For production users, they are authorized (and validated) to access applications and devices in the production zone and that this access and authorization is tracked and auditable if issues arise. For many production environments, log-ins and authorization are not in place and putting them in place will represent significant work and production process changes. A host of authorization technologies may ease the challenges (e.g. appropriate bio-metric technologies), but require research and testing.
- Protecting the Interior - Users should implement access control lists (ACLs) and port security on network infrastructure devices such as switches and routers. As well, key Automation and Control applications should have authorization and role-based security, and preferably use the AAA services used to manage network access as well.
- Identity Services - Enterprises use 802.1x, the IEEE standard for media-level access control. 802.1x offers capability to permit or deny network connectivity, control VLAN access and apply traffic policy, based on user or machine identity. This includes the ability to verify the devices (usually computers) accessing the network has appropriate versions of applications, up-to-date virus protection and other prescribed characteristics. This is a valuable capability for production environments.
These identify technologies are advancing to the point where they can also identify and validate non-user devices, such as a sensor, drive or controller are connecting at the right location, are communication like an Automation and Control device and maintaining expected behaviors e.g. requesting an IP address via DHCP and NOT acting like a DHCP server. This is not yet a common best practice, but does offer some advanced security capabilities.
- Endpoint Hardening - This includes applying anti-virus and anti-malware tools on devices with common operating systems (e.g. Windows and Linux), eliminating un-needed features and functions on those computers. As well, a means to update the anti-virus SW is required, but should be done in such a way as not to interfere with operations, such as during downtimes after updates have been tested.
- Network Hardening - This restricts physical access to the network by preventing "walk up, plug in" access and uses change management to track access and changes. Techniques such as blocking and shutting-off un-used ports and creating "laptop" ports with appropriate configurations (e.g. separate VLANs) all
- Segmentation and Domains of Trust - Users should segment the network into smaller areas based on function or access requirements. Typically, this is done via the implementation of VLANs and subnets. VLANs act as a basis for a security approach and also limit the impact of issues that may arise in one area of the network.
- Physical Security - This restricts physical access to manufacturing assets and network infrastructure devices. This usually represents a significant difference between IT environments and production – the tighter restrictions on physical presence.
- Security Management, Analysis and Response System - Establishing a process that monitors identifies, isolates, and counters network security threats is a common practice in the Enterprise that should be reflected for the Production environment.
- Remote Access Policy - For employee and partner remote access, implement policies, procedures and infrastructure. There are technologies available that allow remote engineers and partners secure access to the appropriate applications and devices in the plant. Additionally, local engineers can also securely share their desktop and applications via collaboration tools, such as WebEx or MeetingPlace.
This may seem like a long list, but for those developing or enhancing a Production Security policy, this represents a good list of the best practices to consider. It does represent a "Defense-in-depth" approach where any security attack or breach has a number of obstacles and there are means in place to identify and eliminate the threats that may arise. The value of standard networks for production environments is enormous, so to are the risks. A planned defense utilizing best practices will be more secure than the old "security-by-obscurity" models, as highlighted by current events.
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Here's your gun control failure of the year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Bradys were unavailable for comment:
Chicago has hit a dismal milestone. A late night shooting has marked the city's 500th homicide for the year.
40-year-old Nathaniel Jackson was shot on the city's West Side around 9 p.m Thursday. He was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. The victim's family has confirmed his identity.
Chicago Police say Jackson was shot in the head while standing outside a convenience store at Augusta Boulevard and Lavergne Avenue in the Austin Neighborhood.
…2008 was the last time Chicago reached 500 homicides.
Via WGN-Chicago.
Related: Here's my Fox segment with Sean Hannity last night on Cuomo, Feinstein, and the latest gun confiscation schemes that anti-Second Amendment zealots keep telling us don't exist:
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