A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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The Trumpocalpse will likely kill the GOP Senate. Already Kirk (IL) and Johnson (WI) are trailing in the polls, and Ayotte is barely leading— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
My path to advocating open immigration was sparked by a few considerations. For example, there is a zero-sum game between family and merit .— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
The quota system is ludicrously implemented,never mind a contradiction to the concept of free markets. E.g., Indians and Chinese: no chance.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
We have a visa program that is oversubscribed within a week for a whole year. There are local rock concerts that don't sell out so soon.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Four, I'm personally annoyed, well into my work career, at having to routinely document work eligibility and fill out EEOC nonsense.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
The anti-immigrants ("some of my best friends are LEGAL immigrants") play Whac-a-Mole, interfering in the affairs of other people: MYOB.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
The anti-immigrants worship a century of immigration overregulation, with a birther's zeal for legal details, hoping to find undotted i's.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Don't depend on SCOTUS to defend fundamental rights against the tyranny of the majority. I mean, SCOTUS blessed the internments under FDR.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I'm getting a little tired of these pop conservative emails 'Trump warns of recession" or "Trump rips into Yellen".Guess what I think of him— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Trump is a guy who ran his businesses 4 times into the ground taking on high-interest loans. For a guy running casinos, the house lost.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Trump is very good at hyping himself. Unlike the annual pilgrimage to Omaha for Buffett's views on stocks or the economy, Trump is a nobody.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
As an academic, I've known a lot of other very smart people; until Trump, I've never heard anyone brag about having a very good brain.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I'm not saying I didn't meet prima donnas in academia,people who are a little too full of themselves.But most smart people know their limits— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
In many fields, there are highly regarded academic journals. One of my MIS profs asked me to proofread her CACM galleys. I did due diligence— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I discovered her reference section was out of sync. E.g., her reference to Likert scales was wrong. My prof had not waited for my feedback.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Now probably 99/100 readers won't notice the problems with a bibliography. But for me it's a big deal. Even now I cringe seeing the paper— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I'm a research junkie. A favorite pastime at UH was to go to the bookstore and look at the course methodology books for other disciplines— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Learning to do research is not unlike learning about watches by taking one apart & putting it back together again. Bibliographies tell much.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I get a lot from reading bibliographies: what does a scholar put in, what does he leave out? Sometimes you run into new interesting sources.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
My predecessor to UIL science in south Texas was a brilliant guy who placed into MIT out of his junior year. He got into a MIT startup.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
He eventually cashed out, a millionaire in the 1980's while I was living between grad student stipend paychecks in Houston.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
His life's ambition was to earn a Nobel Prize in the sciences, but the last I heard, he never bothered to graduate.I don't think he'll do it— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I'll likely never win a Nobel, Pulitzer, Oscar, Emmy or Grammy.I suppose if I ever got one, it would be nice to be recognized. But I'll live— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Still, it's very cool when someone asks me for a copy of one of my papers. Some lady in Australia over the past week asked for one.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I should scan my articles and book chapters into pdf format and post them somewhere. Most of my publisher copies are in storage.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Donald Trump, who has rallied his cultists against PC culture, seems to be fine with LGBT political agendas but criticizes replacing Jackson— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
@AlexNowrasteh Were you responding to media reports that Prince has died?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
It seems everyone is arguing Broadway saved Hamilton on the $10. Let's point out that Hamilton was the architect of our financial system.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Hamilton was a polymath, one of the principal writers of the Federalist Papers promoting our Constitution, a war hero & brilliant lawyer.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I think Trump's real issue with taking Andrew Jackson off the $20 is because he sees Jackson's "King Mob" populism an archetype of his own.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
This is Soft Rock America. Remembering Prince through one of the greatest covers of his songs, a worldwide #1: https://t.co/jsDq4LiI8X— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
The FBI spent more than $1M to hack the San Bernardino terrorist work phone. The FBI chief said it was worth it. I'm calling BULLSHIT!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Have you ever heard a public employee ever admit the government wasted money? Of course not. I have no specific knowledge of this but I know— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
To a government some $19T in the hole, of course, throwing $1M at the only cellphone the terrorists didn't destroy (why?) is wisely spent.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
This is like the TSA going through this kabuki dance of poking at a baby's diaper or feeling up your great-grandma at the airport for safety— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
The TSA may look like it's collecting an EPA field sample in checking your baby's poop, but they're probably actor rejects from Hollywood.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
Never mind we don't find even 25% of real weapons in spot field tests, but we are diligent about checking baby poop and ounces of liquid!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
What really pisses me off are the security conservatives who are willing to throw your rights & dignity under the bus over security theater.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
So, no, I don't feel "safer" because the FBI was able to crack into a useless work phone. What bothers me is the govt going after vendors.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
I'm not going to buy security-cripped American IT products for the benefit of fearmongers' apocalyptic imaginations. I'm an academic: boring— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 21, 2016
@realDonaldTrump Cruz got more votes in WI than you got in NY. You can't make it to 1237, Scammin' Whinin' Sleazy Donnie: you drop out.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 22, 2016
Cruz needs to cut out his economically illiterate anti-trade bullshit. ("Fair trade" is like anti-immigrants arguing they are pro legal.)— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 22, 2016
Cruz, you need to stop this anti-trade, anti-immigrant nonsense, which is totally indefensible anti-growth economics. Same as Trump, Kasich.— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 22, 2016
As Cato Institute points out, nearly 60% of imports are NOT consumer goods, but resources used by American companies. Anti-trade is anti-job— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 22, 2016
It goes without saying that the anti-trade Dems are even more illiterate. Oddly, progressive Krugman cut his economics career on trade: sad!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 22, 2016
Image of the DayIf Trump is going rogue on an independent path, he's got a couple of weeks to get signatures for the Texas ballot. Given CO and WY, no way!— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) April 22, 2016
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