End of the semester blasphemous and secular rants

- "Romero, Ellacuria and the so-called Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador are the Natalee Holloway of the social justice people at your school" - My husband dixit, after one particular rant of mine.

- Dear student: if you call yourself a Marxist throughout the semester, don't turn in a final paper claiming that the Jesuit missions in Paraguay were the closest thing to Utopia Latin America ever saw. Specially when your main source was my FREAKING high school history teacher (I kid you not. And yes, she was an academic). She was one of the most right wing professors I ever has! In the clash between class struggle and religion, religion always wins. Grrrr... (Copy and paste from a rant I left at Fie's)

- American work ethic is not admirable, it's unhealthy. I attended a reception this week where they were honoring employees (not faculty, just staff) retiring. There was a little speech for each of them. One thing that repeated in all speeches (and they were not done by the same person): how Mr. X, Ms. Y or Mrs. Z never missed a day of work, had to be told to go back home at least once because ze was sick and still came to work, and almost never took a vacation day. These were said as praises. I think it is plain crazy.