http://writinginthewild.com "nothing natural about it!" Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:13:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://writinginthewild.com/2010/08/09/rebuilding-academia/ http://writinginthewild.com/2010/08/09/rebuilding-academia/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:55:50 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=2997 "Adjuncts Gather to Discuss Tactics in Campaign for Equity"). It reminds me of the slow 30 year slog it took for global climate change to reach a place in mainstream media. Mainstream education media has taken a similar slow path to putting the our labor issues on its agenda. Tenure isn't coming back, but we could build a better system if we were given the tools. Unfortunately, it might take another decade or more to get our government, even our now liberal administration and congress, to begin to raise alarms about the...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2010/08/09/rebuilding-academia/feed/ 0 http://writinginthewild.com/2008/09/08/governor-palins-choice/ http://writinginthewild.com/2008/09/08/governor-palins-choice/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:00:23 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=595 Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, and people like that are hard to come by. He's a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years, and refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight. And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. I'm just one of many moms who'll say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way. Our son Track is 19. And one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he'll deploy to Iraq with the Army infantry in the service of his country. My nephew Kasey also...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2008/09/08/governor-palins-choice/feed/ 0