Author: marciarillegmailcom

They can try. From today’s email from UMKC’s administration, a statement that course modality may not be altered without the consent of a Dean:

Changes to Class Format

Changes to course format this close to the start of the semester are highly disruptive to our students.  For that reason, faculty should not be changing class modality at this time. Only under rare and exceptional circumstances, and when it would not be disruptive to students, a chair, with dean support, can change a course modality. 

They can try. But, isn’t the risk assessment for each individual variable and fact dependent?

Are we listening? Are enough of us listening?

They can try.

They can try.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

What’s in a footnote? In the case of the recent Missouri Supreme Court Medicaid expansion opinion, everything is in footnote four. I can’t wait to see what the Missouri legislature does once its current Medicaid appropriation is exhausted on the original Medicaid and expansion Medicaid populations. This could get interesting.

Here’s a good summary of where we are after Tuesday’s oral argument at the Missouri Supreme Court.

If these folks are very concerned about remote cooperation with evil through the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, are they scrutinizing all modern medical treatments by the same standard?

Best thing I’ve heard in a long time.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01808

But why don’t they work?