Amnesty International will be holding its Florida State Conference here at the Law School on February 25. The deadline for registering is Feb. 13, and you can do so online.
I’ll be there to listen to the impressive roster of speakers, including Ricardo Bascuas, Donna Coker, and Steven Vladeck from our faculty.
I think that the omnipresence of hate radio and TV is one of the great poisons of contemporary politics. So it’s very encouraging to see signs that the shine is coming off some of the icons. DO NOT MISS MS-NBC’s Keith Olbermann’s disemboweling of Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, clip courtesy of onegoodmove. (While there, check out the other great video captures.)
If it’s true that it’s the cover up that gets you and not the crime, then things don’t look good for the folks in the Veep’s office, who seem to have been doing some digital shredding.
Update: georgia10 at Daily Kos connects some dots and speculates as to why this could be a really big deal.
Progress Now has an amusing No-Spy Video. Catchy tune, ok film. Important issue.
A reader writes:
“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
– Evan Esar (1899 – 1995)
But we do tend to have longer careers.
Anyway, it depends on the sport. And whether by “average” person you mean the median person, or if you really want to average the salaries.
And for the ones with bigger teams, do you look just at the stars, or the median player? After all the average (not median) baseball player ‘only’ made $2,476,589 in 2005, and I bet the median player made less than that. That’s under $47,626 per week on a 52-week basis. There definitely are professors in the humanities who make more than that, and the professional schools are loaded with them. (The 52-week comparison isn’t as unfair as it seems since many professors have 9-month contracts, which is only a little longer than the baseball season, if you count spring training.)
Update: I think as regards baseball at least, this isn’t quite accurate, although it’s close: Median baseball salaries on a team range from $ 322,500 on the Colorado Rockies to $ 5,833,334 on the NY Yankees. The median salary on the median team is either the Seattle Mariners’ $ 800,000 or the Minnesota Twins’ $ 750,000 depending if you round down or up. Which puts it just under 12 times the average professor’s salary!
Of course, if you throw in other professional sports, who knows, it might be true…
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