I saw "Moderna" trending, and surprise, surprise about 90% of the tweets I saw were anti-vaxxer FUD rubbish. Typical Politics of Envy charges of profiteering and the like.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 29, 2023
After I left academia during a recession, I never used the title in professional IT. Professional recruiters were openly hostile to academic credentials and treated 8 years in academia as unemployment. I buried the PhD in my resume. A recent supervisor discovered it: "Dr. Ron".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
I used to work with a former Marine who earned a DBA (think an MBA upgrade), comparable to Biden's EdD. Professional doctorates are lower on the academic food chain. I had never met someone with a DBA degree and never heard of the school he earned it from. It drove him nuts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
Don't get me wrong. I admire anyone who seeks to improve himself by pursuing advanced degrees, and that includes Mrs. Biden. But it's somewhat uncommon to reference or draw attention to one's credentials outside of academia or things like job interviews.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
No, Novak Djokovic is no "hero". He's a self-serving jerk who promotes anti-vaxxer ignorance at the expense of public health
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
If you look at the education faculty at say UT/Austin, you will find the overwhelming majority have real PhD's, not EdD's.https://t.co/LYtZTf7zOW
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
This one troll tried to shame Megyn Kelly by alleging her own late father, a former New York/Albany associate professor, was an EdD. It took a bit of Googling but I finally confirmed it. https://t.co/j9Aup1Y7QX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
Things change over time. It used to be easier to query for my dissertation reference online. My dissertation chair resume: https://t.co/EnX3eCNFsH, and there's also this query: https://t.co/7xXKX7p2EH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
The same kids who would train for weeks to run a marathon would complain about the time they spent on learning a new skill like computer programming vs. acing their college history course. It's hard, and if you, professor, were doing your job, it would be easier.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. "Dr. Jill Biden" holds an EdD and insists on using her title socially. This reminds me I haven't heard Carly Simon's signature hit in a while: https://t.co/rA84WGPfBN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
Some thin-skinned PhD troll got defensive over my calling her out during the Biden kerfuffle over using the title in her Twitter name. It was like the Boxer kerfuffle ("call me Senator, not ma'am") all over again.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
I'm sure he told evangelicals the 'J' stood for 'Jesus' #Sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
Donald J Trump https://t.co/8dfEP0jxSF
Remember the dad who pushed a pro-abort geezer who got in the face of his 12-year-old son, and Biden's FBI terrorized his family of 9 in an early morning raid? https://t.co/LtLsnoPqgO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
Lots of healthy people die. My 30-something nephew, a new dad, coded in a hospital and fortunately survived his heart attack. Anti-vaxxers are trying to spread FUD about the best thing you can do to guard against the third leading cause of death.https://t.co/T8uzpeyKQC https://t.co/2CNG7VxeIY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
My favorite Elton John tune will always be "Blessed"https://t.co/dFgLHf3uiU
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
Trump's suing Woodward? With his batting average in court he'll never make the minor leagues
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
"Bob Woodward"
I once worked with an associate professor at UTEP who earned his PhD at Texas Tech. He once bragged to me he slept with a famous female academic, then also from Texas Tech. Misinterpreting the look on my face, he went on to joke, "Hell, it's Lubbock; what else to do?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
:"Lubbock"
The big selling point, of course, has been much lower risk of hospitalization and death, We know the capacity constraints in the early pandemic have eased. I personally know of breakthrough infections that didn't affect all family members. https://t.co/A7JOBiEb4z
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
You knew it had to happen sooner than later. Fox News is now covering migrants on the northern border.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 31, 2023
No, Biden doesn't have dementia, and I'm Never Biden. I just don't think lay people should jump to conclusions based on occasionally weird public behavior. I've personally known 2 older ladies who have been diagnosed, and it's really sad, not recognizing family, etc.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Dementia
Laverne & Shirley are now dead, and every time I see Cher trending, I worry my memories of 70's TV are dying.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Runaway train is gonna crash. https://t.co/EK4IFps93K
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Trump has announced he has a secret plan for ending the Ukraine War in 24 hours. Once again, he's borrowing from Nixon's tactics, like his secret 1968 plan to end the Vietnam War.https://t.co/yBBHSvl1tX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
I can just see Trump the Nixonian claim "The American people have to know they will not elect a crook. I just had to plead the Fifth Amendment 400 times." #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
I remember one year it snowed an inch in Laredo, TX and people got in traffic accidents. Residents in Buffalo, NY are laughing themselves silly.https://t.co/wKyYgwWmqGhttps://t.co/nttujACNSV https://t.co/DZe41eRCmN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Deja vu. Brady is retiring again. Well, now he gets to start his $375M/10 year contract with Fox.https://t.co/ORAPwmyj0n
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. What will Gisele say now that ex-hubby Tom Brady has retired again? I bet Deniece Williams knows: https://t.co/Of7tXOz7E8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Well, Brady didn't make it until 48 like George Blanda; maybe Tom should try placekicking. God knows Dallas needs one. But at least Tom went out capturing another divisional championship. https://t.co/8YvUadj9w4
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
GOAT
How do the Raiders get Tom Brady to unretire? Jerry Maguire knows...https://t.co/XlLCMdM93g
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Some Dems are still calling the 1/6/21 protests an "insurrection".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
"Pledge of Allegiance"
My latest essay takes on tennis pro Novak Djokovic and the COVID-19 vaccine kerfuffle.https://t.co/vNrHIo7JRL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
To Megyn Kelly and other uneducated fools who think the title "Doctor" is exclusively reserved for MD's:
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
"Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word ... docēre 'to teach'. It has been an academic title since the 13th century".https://t.co/C6XyXRT6ws
"Although the usage of the title [Dr] by Ph.D. graduates has become common, its use socially by holders of professional doctorates is neither explicitly endorsed nor explicitly discouraged by writers on etiquette."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 1, 2023
Biden's EdD is a professional doctorate.
Twitter users are bad at humor. Let me point out Brady's ex-wife Gisele is Brazilian. Santos' parents were Brazilian immigrants, and George lived in Brazil for a time. Try again. https://t.co/egdlX5e3mL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
Someone hasn't met a number of real dads. The fact that Biden, while in charge of Ukraine policy under Obama, looked the other way while Biden took a lucrative board position under an oligarch under US investigation tells you all you need to know about Biden's professional ethics https://t.co/7Cg2NFcl9U
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
A REAL executive lives within his means, doesn't depend on lenders bailing out unsustainable spending. He makes tough decisions, cuts spending, including high labor costs. No, it's not Congress' job to charge Biden's irresponsible spending to another generation. https://t.co/acsJZPC0UP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
Biden doesn't plagiarize on vacation. (This is an inside joke on derivative classification.) #sarcasm https://t.co/Wi2SRGH16T
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
It amazes me that there's a culture war going on the pledge of allegiance. Does it surprise anyone that left- and right-wing nationalist wingnuts champion the pledge written by a Christian socialist minister? https://t.co/4onzS2UIzY
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
"Pledge of Allegiance"
I heard Hannity falsely assert Trump had cooperated with the USG before the FBI search. Trump refused to return USG documents for a year before Trump finally released 15 boxes when NARA threatened escalation. He was later served with a subpoena, another pickup in June. Not all.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
Rather is a partisan hack, pretending to be an objective newscaster. We knew about his agenda and lack of professional ethics when he tried to take out George W. Bush on the topic of his National Guard experience. He's learned nothing since leaving CBS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
"Dan Rather"
I think Christie Brinkley gave all us average-looking bachelor geeks hope when she married Billy Joel. (Of course, we weren't wealthy pop stars.) She was every dude's approachable girl-next-door uptown girl.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
"Christie Brinkley"
My latest essay takes on the 'Dr. Biden' kerfuffle, most recently revisited this past weekend. Hopefully I won't have to write a third essay on the topic.https://t.co/EWmov6uCoL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 2, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. There are reports of a Chinese spy balloon traversing the continental US. Time to remember a Fifth Dimension golden oldie:https://t.co/iFniOqIzhi
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 3, 2023
I think Biden set himself up by hypocritically attacking Trump for his handling of national secrets. We now know there's a general enforcement problem of data handling standards at the head of the Executive Branch. https://t.co/2sfQKgAjZ9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 3, 2023
I'm amused by China admitting to aa civilian airship floating above the US. Apparently, this is floating over sensitive military bases in sparsely populated areas. Yeah right, commies. Try again.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 3, 2023
I'm amused that pro-Biden trolls are hyping his economic "success". We see more & more stories of Big Tech shedding thousands of jobs, the stock market took a big hit last year, the housing market is getting killed by high interest rates, people are dipping into retirement funds.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 3, 2023
Funny... That's been true of every POTUS in my lifetime, and I'm a Boomer.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 4, 2023
#BidenWorstPresidentEver
How's Morticia, Lurch? https://t.co/ZTYzZZgCTU
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 4, 2023
My latest essay talks about the recent Scott Horton Twitter suspension, COVID-19, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and my squabbles with podcaster/historian Tom Woods.https://t.co/64AUAoI1EZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 4, 2023
Maybe he means cis-women vs trans-women? #sarcasm https://t.co/uCwuK5oann
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 4, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. The USAF shot down the commie balloon as if an arrow through it. This reminds me of a McCartney classic: https://t.co/9CMlWSrz5k https://t.co/PgWtjcTNi9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 4, 2023
The partisans are pointing at each other's POTUS purported foreign policy failures, when in fact it's indisputable over the past year that neither Trump nor Biden can be trusted with national security.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 5, 2023
"Oval Office"
#SeductionWorksBestWhen you're dating a geek.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 5, 2023
This is Soft Rock America. What did the Chinese commie balloon say before the USAF fighters locked on their target? ELO knows. https://t.co/x6JaCWtJsl
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 5, 2023
Trump says that he'll gladly pay you Tuesday.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 5, 2023
#OddWaysToAskForSex
I once had an analogous situation in terms of arbitrary rules. I was a UH doctoral student when my younger sister, an RN, delivered her firstborn daughter prematurely. I drove to San Antonio to visit my niece in the NICU. I didn't qualify as close family. My sister smuggled me in https://t.co/OYdyeKjeEm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 5, 2023
Interesting. Nikki Haley, 51, is explicitly positioning herself as representing a new generation of leadership in her underdog campaign against Trump in his attempt to become the second POTUS to turn 80 in office.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 5, 2023
I think Musk should expand the space for Twitter profile. I've mentioned elsewhere I double-majored in math and philosophy at OLLU, I hold a math MA from Texas/Austin and an MBA and PhD (MIS) from UH. I've been a junior professor at UWM and UTEP and a visiting professor at ISU.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) January 30, 2023
