The Worst Jobs in Science
Pain, Tedium, Danger, Disgust, Humiliation—It's all just part of the average workday for the (often proud, more often smelly) members of our third annual honor roll of the Worst Jobs in Science

By John Galvin | October 2005

3. Kansas Biology Teacher
On the front lines of science's devolution

Oh the humiliation...

The Worst Jobs in Science - Popular Science

“It’s just astounding,” the source told New York Magazine. “It came through loud and clear from the Bush people—they wouldn’t sign the deal if Clinton were allowed to speak.”

I didn't think much of the Bushies before this, but now that this has come out I only have one word to describe them. Fascists.

Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech

The officials said the captive, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, provided his most specific and elaborate accounts about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda only after he was secretly handed over to Egypt by the United States in January 2002, in a process known as rendition.

In other words, we have a guy who we don't really believe, so we hand him over to the Egyptians to kick the crap out of him until he sings a song we do like? And then we start a war over it?

This is really, amazingly simple, because we have similar cases. When a police department does something like this, pretty much everyone involved loses their jobs, probably gets criminally prosecuted, certainly gets civilly prosecuted, and, if they're lucky, they only look like Daryl Gates at the end of the day.

The White House needs a house cleaning by guys with badges.

Qaeda-Iraq Link U.S. Cited Is Tied to Coercion Claim - New York Times

"It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment," Mohni said.

Duh! When you bring in a speaker who has no respect for the other side, and has been blatantly combatant about it, what do you expect? I wouldn't expect the right to be any less insulting to Al Franken.

Jeered, Coulter Cuts University Speech Short

The ex-husband says it was the "most intense pain" he's ever experienced.

Well yeah, having it come out in court that the hot wife thinks the 14 year old she's nailing is better than you are in bed kinda stings.

At the same time, he's right, if she'd been a guy nailing his 14 year old firls, he'd be in jail for a very long time. Now to explain one of the differences between guys and girls. At 14, guys will fuck anything they can get near. The apple pie scene in American Pie? Not too far off the mark. EVERYONE knows this, so when some kid gets lucky with the hot blonde teacher? He's getting high fives. At least until some busybody parent gets into the act.

At 14, boys are trolling the internet for porn already. Girls, for the most part, aren't. Double standard? No. Very different standards for very different situations. Put Brad Pitt in front if a high school freshman class, drop trou, and ask the girls if anyone wants to go for a ride, the girls might think about it but they wouldn't do it. If Debra LaFave did the same thing in front of her former class, it wouldn't be a line to get at her, it'd be more like army ants swarming.

Ex-husband says Debra LaFave would have gotten jail if not a woman

But my experience with our political leaders has opened my eyes to just how easily the private wishes of normal Americans like me and Terri can be cast aside in the destructive game of political pandering.

The thing that wouldn't die!

TerriPAC

"We are not going to put an artificial timetable on this thing. We are going to give the president well-considered proposals and then he will decide where he wants to go,"

Iraq? No, the new tax proposal...

No Timetable!

Clark was identified by the woman, who was carjacked at gunpoint in July 1981 from outside an Atlanta Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant and raped repeatedly. Clark was convicted and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for rape, kidnapping and armed robbery.

But recent DNA tests show that Clark — who had no prior adult felony convictions — did not commit the crime.

I have one very simple reason I think capital punishment should go away. If you get the wrong guy and send them to jail, that's bad, but you can try to make up for it. If you send them to the chair, you can't.

DNA Tests Could Free Man After 25 Years - Yahoo! News

According to police, Booth was in the Memphis home of the four intended victims last week when she mistook a block of queso fresco cheese for cocaine — inspiring the idea to hire someone to break into the home, take the drugs, and kill the men.

Stupid!

Woman Allegedly Hires Hit Man for Cheese - Yahoo! News

Al-Arian, 47, remains in jail, where he's been since his February 2003 indictment, while the federal government decides whether to retry him on the deadlocked charges, which include three key counts accusing him of conspiracy to support the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Officials say there is no timetable for a decision.

Not-guilty on 8 charges, no decision on the deadlocked ones, but still in jail and probably to be deported if they don't think they can get him on those. Either they're overzealous and going for something that isn't there, or they're inept. Either way, this is not how to run a "War on Terror" much less a railroad.

U.S. May Deport Accused Fla. Ex-Professor - Yahoo! News