Mar. 15, 2005 - 16:25 MST

THE WONDERING JEW

Wednesday Whatevers

Intriguing are some of these memes. For instance is the one Fiare puts out on Wednesday. Herewith:

1. - What does procrastination do ?

A. - Depending on the application of same it can give one a breathing space or cause more trouble than can be dug out from during a lifetime. For the most part procrastination is putting off doing something that should have been accomplished yesterday.

2. - Is life fair ?

A. - Short and sweet NO, hell no. Fair is something that we have thought up to try to live a life we should at peace with others. Most religions in one wording or another have the "golden rule." My interpretation as others is, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." But that doesn't include sadists or masochists. Which demonstrates that life in itself is not fair. Life of the body is not fair either, consider the ills of man, cancer, mental illness, addiction, diabetes and too many other ailments to mention. So, I don't think life is fair but I strive to be.

3. - Why do children use their Father's last names ?

A. - What they used to tell me, "Because that's just the way it is." That is the system in use in this country and has been for many years, probably from our English methods. Other nationalities children go by their Mother's last names, and in many ways it is in my sight that going by a Mother's last name makes sense, not always is known exactly who the father is to be downright brash about it. That is how it is, not sure that it is a good reason at all.

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Much like in our federal government, when in trouble hire a "spin doctor," according to an article in this mornings Rocky Mountain News: An article by Kevin Vaughan and Todd Hartman of the same paper. In part:

Regents pay for PR help

$350-per-hour consultant to help with scandal fallout

"The University of Colorado's governing Board of Regents has retained a $350-per-hour public relations consultant as they continue to deal with the fallout from a football recruiting scandal and the ongoing saga surrounding controversial professor Ward Churchill."

"The regents signed the contract with Christopher Simpson, of Williamsburg, Va. The contract called for Simpson to be paid $24,000 for an initial round of work, which included a workshop on marketing, communications and media issues for the regents and other university officials. Any follow-up consulting work will billed at $350 per hour."

"The money being paid to Simpson is on top of a contract with local ppubllic relations firm GBSM, and in addition to the combined salaries of several people on the university's staff who handle public relations, including two associate vice presidents, Hesse and Ray Gomez. The two men are the chief spokesmen for CU, and each is paid a salary of $150,000 per year."

Details of CU's contract with GBSM weren't available Monday.

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And another article by John C. Ensslin of the Rocky Mountain News In part:

CU Foundations says it won't finance buyout for Churchill

"The University of Colorado Foundation does not intend to fund a buyout of controversial professor Ward Churchill's contract, the head of the private nonprofit fund-raising group said Monday."

"We do not anticipate that there would be a situation where the foundation would be involved in any kind of financial settlement at all," said Michael Byram, chief executive officer and president of the CU Foundation."

"Byram's remarks came one day after a majority of the CU Board of Regents rejected a plan to use universtiy funds to entice Chruchill to take an early retirement."

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Seems to me in my humble loud mouthed opinion that the situation north of Denver in Boulder, Colorado is much like the top of an ant pile kicked off. In this coming year CU is out $24,000 plus $350 per hour to a hot-shot import. A public relations firm GBSM that it is not known what they are drawing per year, and two university employees each pulling down $150,000 per year. A few more thousand and one might consider that this is in the BIG BUCKS area.

There doesn't seem to have been any "Dutch Boy" employee that plugged the seepage of scandal early on and now they are hiring (pardon me and my humble opinion) "liars" to emphasize what much of us already know. That the University of Colorado is a fine institution having a history of high achievement and the prospect of more Nobel prize winners in many departments. Now the university thinks it should shell out big bucks for pushing that information before the public.

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Okay, so much for that. But the unversity won't hack paying off the good professor to get out of Dodge and neither will the Foundation come up with an offer. Do they know something we don't ? ? ? ? Seems to me that what ever could be offered him would let the University of Colorado off cheap when considering what he probably could get if he won a lawsuit against the university and the likelihood seems that he stands a chance to make out like a millionaire burglar.

Two more to be added to the Wednesday Whatevers . . . . . . . .

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