Best humor ever from the Babylon Bee (Smiley Face):
The Merit System in Academia Is Unjust Because It Rewards Productive Individuals, Professors Argue
Campus Reform | 09/09/2021 | Kate Anderson
Professors from the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, are arguing that “success and merit” are “barriers” to the equity agenda.“Admitting that the normative definitions of success and merit are in and of themselves barriers to achieving the goals of justice, diversity, equity and inclusion is necessary but not sufficient to create change,” professors Beth Mitchneck and Jessi L. Smith recently wrote for Inside Higher Education.
Oh, wait. It’s real. (Sad Face)
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Good news / bad news:
Due to some mysterious virus, hack, or something that affected my computer on 9/11, I can neither upload images nor compose posts on IMAO.
And now the bad news:
This means you’ll miss seeing Slapout’s, Gumbeaux’s, and Comrade Chairman Obama’s memes, which I was uploading. And there were some doozies recently.
I can still comment; I just can’t post any original items.
(You’ll still see ten or twelve more random posts from me, because I completed them on or before 9/11.)
This bug affects only my home computer. If I log in on other computers, I can proceed as in the olden days of yore.
Strange to say, no other websites that I visit have been similarly affected.
Which means IMAO is special. Or odd.
I am inclined to consider this a sly hint from fate that it’s time to step away from posting.
If you have any interest in posting thoughts or threads, by all means contact Walrus or (even better) Basil, because he knows how to authorize people to post. I think I’ve amply demonstrated that a post can consist simply of a random thought, meme, or article that strikes you as interesting. It’s the comments below them that make them come to life.
Basil has looked into this weird posting problem, for hours, and tried all sorts of troubleshooting tricks with me, and we discovered the problem does not lie with the website, but just with this infected computer.
Some will ask, “Well, why not just get a new computer?” but I don’t see it as simple as that. The more things that line up in the column against doing so, the less inclined I am to do so.
In closing, I can only say that a jar of Elvis Presley’s hair has been auctioned off for $72,500:
“I am inclined to consider this a sly hint from fate that it’s time to step away from posting.”
Wha!
Granted you put a lot of stuff up on this site but I don’t think anyone wants you to go away. The spambots alone could tell you that.
I think maybe you should think about putting that significant wealth of yours into hiring a stable of content providers. You can call them the OPPOsters or the OpHeads(OpEds). Oppenheimers?
Opposite-ers?
I’m running out of vaguely familiar but only mildly amusing double entendres.
P.S. I was going to comment about an odd occurrence in a 1960s sitcom but now I can’t remember what it was. I don’t think it was F Troop.
Did my entreat get deleted?
It got put in moderation, but damned if I can see why. An algorithm saw “head” and “double entendre” in the same comment? What else could it be?
Stinkin’ algorithm.
Oopsie!
You know my internet is messed up. I keep getting “Page unresponsive” messages and it takes like 5 or more seconds to resolve. But it does it for everything. It takes forever for me to set up a post because of it. I’ve had this problem for about 10 days or so. I even get it a bit at work so I think it’s a server problem somewhere that I’m routing through but then I am not a tech geek so…
I’ll try to post some more of the memes, if Miss Welch gets them to me. Ask her nicely.
You know those professors should quit their jobs to protest having the merit to warrant them having their positions.