Screw that pervert Michael Jackson, and eff Farrah Falsey.  The big news is that the great Sky Saxon of the Seeds has assumed room temperature at the age of 63.

Seeds Frontman Sky Saxon Dies in Austin

Quote:Sky Saxon, lead singer and bassist of '60s garage rockers the Seeds, died Thursday in an Austin, Texas hospital. He had been in the ICU since Monday suffering from an undisclosed illness -- doctors suspected an internal organ infection -- until his wife, Sabrina, announced his passing via Facebook.

Influenced heavily by the Rolling Stones, Saxon -- born Richard Marsh -- founded the Seeds in 1965 in California. The next year, the psychedelic rockers released two albums, 'The Seeds' and 'A Web of Sound,' and had hits with 'Can't Seem to Make You Mine' and 'Pushin' Too Hard,' their most successful song. In 1967, the band released two more albums: 'Future,' a psychedelic rock album, and 'A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues,' which was credited to the Sky Saxon Blues Band and featured liner notes by the legendary Muddy Waters.

After some lineup changes and a few more commercially unsuccessful albums, Saxon dissolved the band in the early '70s. He joined a California commune, the Source Family, adopted the name Sunlight and occasionally performed with their trippy house band, the Ya Ho Wa 13. In 1989, Saxon reformed the Seeds to tour with other '60s acts like Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Arthur Lee and Love. They toured again in 2003, and Saxon kept busy musically, releasing an album last year, and recording with the Smashing Pumpkins. Though he fell ill last Thursday, Saxon still managed to play a short gig on Saturday night at Austin rock club Antone's.

Earlier today, Sabrina Sherry Smith Saxon wrote on her Facebook page, "Sky has passed over and YaHoWha is waiting for him at the gate. He will soon be home with his Father. I'm so sorry I couldn't keep him here with us. More later. I'm sorry." No other announcements have been made.

The pervert and adjudicated civil rights violator admits that he "can't help but see society differently." He admits that because of his deviant sexual orientation he can't view society the way normal people view it. Isn't it about time then that society took this degenerate at his word and stopped allowing him to make judgments about normal, non-perverted, non-civil rights violating people?

Quote:Alan Contreras said...
Thanks, Reginald, for posting this interesting discussion. We look forward to your appearace at the University of Oregon in May.

I am a gay writer who writes poetry, though the great bulk of my writing is prose about higher education issues or ornithology. My poetry is very rarely about what I think of as "gay themes," yet I agree completely with the panelists who correctly perceive that gay writers by definition can't help but see society differently. I am IN society but I am not OF society.

I own every book of poems that J.D. McClatchy and you, Reginald, have published, and also all of Merrill, all of Carl Phillips and some works by Mark Doty. Many of the poems in these collections have a gay theme to them, but many do not.

I don't feel obligated to write about "gay things" because I am a gay person. It seems so cramped to limit oneself that way. Yet most of the panelists speak as though a gay poet has an obligation to focus on gay themes. Why?

February 8, 2008 6:57 PM

Is an online degree completely worthless?

Are online universities merely money making machines perpetuating the rote memorization of facts and parroting of opinions?

As useless as a fifth tier college degree major, in say, sociology is, is an online degree any better than this?

If your name is Levicoff, you can go piss up a flagpole.

http://onlinecourses.conted.ox.ac.uk/
Oxford University

http://www.cf.ac.uk/learn
Cardiff University

Many short, accredited online courses.
Substantially higher fees for non-EU citizens.

* MA International History

* MA International Policy and Diplomacy

* MA International Relations

* MFA Interactive Multimedia

* MA Media Management

UK accredited University of Staffordshire offers the above via distance learning.
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/faculties/ar...ance_learning/

www.lamp.ac.uk

Accredited UK University of Lampeter offers a wealth of distance education degrees, both undergraduate:

Archaeology and Anthropology
Philosophy
Theology and Religious Studies
Voluntary Sector Studies
Welsh Studies

and postgraduate:
M.A philosophy
M.A classics
M.A history
M.A anthropology
etc,
each with various pathways.
Furthermore research degrees (Ph.D/M.Phil ).

Plenty of courses & degrees at this accredited UK university:
http://prospectus.shu.ac.uk/a2zlistc...endancetype=dl: SHEFFIELD HALLAM

University Of Leicester
M.A diplomatic studies from UK accredited university:
http://www.le.ac.uk/politics/admissions/mads.html

Accredited UK Coventry University:
http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/ptshortcp...spx?itemID=151
Parapsychology MSc degree (by distance learning)


MA in Peace and Reconciliation Studies by Distance Learning:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/d/286/a/3867

BScEcon and Diploma Information and Library Studies
MScEcon and Diploma in Information and Library Studies
MScEcon and Diploma in Health Information Management
MScEcon and Diploma in Records Management
MScEcon and Diploma in Archive Aministration
MScEcon and Diploma in Management of Library and Information Services


Via distance learning
University of Aberystwyth, UK
http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/en_pu...g-dislearn.pdf

Both duly accredited.
Highly recommended, offer a series of degrees via distance education.

http://www2.adams.edu/extended_studies/independent/
ADAMS STATE COLLEGE
+/-120/130 US$ per 1 undergraduate credit.

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http://www.ccis.edu/online/apply/
COLUMBIA COLLEGE
around US$ 200 per 1 undergraduate credit.

No differential fees for non-US citizens, so they say.
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SUNY accredited US consortium offering DE degrees

http://sln.suny.edu/index.html

DE diverse educational offer from US accredited consortium.
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The National Universities Degree Consortium

http://nudc.org/index.shtml

consortium of US accredited universities offers many degrees, including online ones.
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MERCY COLLEGE

http://www.mercy.edu/mercyonline/online_degrees.htm
under/post-graduate degree online from US accredited college.

He hasn't been heard from in months. Spammers and religious nutjobs have taken over his forum. The handwriting is and has been on the wall for quite a while. DD is close to done.

Long gone are the high flying glory days of Uncle Janko and Rich "Bomber" Douglas making 10 posts a day, Jack "The Ripper" Tracey actually posting legitimate posts, George Gollin making national news as a mill buster, the iconic John Bear weighing in with something insightful to say or an anecdote, and new members joining weekly. These morons had completely bought into Gus' bullshit and it was only a matter of time before Gus assumed his rightful place as heir to John Bear as the world's foremost expert on distance education. Gus had managed to portray those with a more open view of distance education as millists and frauds, their forum (Jamesville) was hacked and the archives were deleted. The Miliatry Forums were shut down and Sainz' critics had been silenced.  

It was all so close to becoming a reality, what happened? Once DD falls it will be interesting as we dissect it and begin to assign blame and note turning points. Suffice it to say, the hubris and arrogance of Gus Sainz really set the tone for the forum from Day 1. The question remains, as DD comes to an end, will Gus return for a curtain call, one last hurrah where he'll address the minions and reassure them that they have been right all along ("RA or No Way") and that we, the barbarians, didn't prove anything?

Goose’s clone refuge DegreeDiscussion.com will soon fade into the past from whence it came.  It’s been circling the drain for some time (some would say since the day it was conceived), but now that spammers outnumber stalkers it seems inevitable.

At DegreeInfo.com there are only two types of posters left: those who are too dumb to know that they are posting on a board run by a pedophile-pandering gay boy pornographer, and those who like participating in that sort of thing.  Eventually the non-perverts will wise up and move on, leaving Chip and his pervert posse of take-it-in-the-tailpipe teens to discuss enemas with Bruce the malingering union goon cop.

But with the increasing popularity of university level distance learning programs, there are still some good discussion boards out there—actual discussion boards where legit DL programs are discussed in a positive way, not stalker boards where ignorant old farts prey on the newbies.

1.  DLTruth.com—For those who enjoy playing safely on the other discussion boards, you can thank DLTruth, which has so vigorously exposed the stalkers, perverts and “RA or no way” clones that the reprobates have been forced to confine themselves to the two relic boards described above.

2.  Degreeboard.com—Still the only board that welcomes posts by lurkers, it may be the only board that will tolerate the clone remnants when their last sanctuaries implode.

3.  eLearners.com—Individual forums on specific DL programs are one of this site’s better features.  Although the occasional old “RA or no way” clone invades to harass the innocent, one of the kinder, gentler discussion forums out there (which can be good or bad depending on your need for confrontation).

4.  DegreeNet.com—Originally created by John Klempner himself, before he discovered the world was flat.  Would have more credibility if they didn’t always seem to have at least 75 non-members online at any time.  Makes you wonder what else they are making up.

5.  Online Degree Reviews—Good idea, but abused by some schools (e.g., NCU) who have shills (or more likely, a single shill using different handles) to make rave posts to attempt to counteract the many negative ones.  Format kind of limits true “discussion,” but still highly informative for people weighing online programs.

6.  Alt.education.distance—The original internet newsgroup where the “mill wars” began many years ago, it’s now overrun with porn and drug adverts (which puts it pretty much on a par with DD).  Still useful for researching track records and prior bad conduct by the stalkers, perverts, civil rights violators and other self-appointed “experts” of the Klempner Klone Krew.

Some spamming douchebag using the handle "ShakhtarrDon" has posted drug ads all over DD. Such nonsense might be buried under new posts quickly if anybody still posted there, but since they don't the ads have been lingering for days.

Goose appears to be preoccupied with his legal problems, and the rest of the clones must have something better to do than clean up Goose's mess for him.

Or perhaps Goose has just gone into the prescription meds business (again?).

Porn law revives debate over legality of porn industry in U.S.

Quote: LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The call for the "Condoms in Porn" legislation in California Monday has revived the debate on whether the porn industry in the U.S. is legal and whether porn stars should have labor protection.

    The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) led a group of people to gather in front of Larry Flynt's Hustler store Monday in West Hollywood to renew a call for a California "Condoms in Porn" law. The AHF is seeking the introduction of legislation that would mandate the use of condoms for adult video performers as a worker safety provision of California's Labor Code.

    Organizers said the Condoms in Porn law is equal to how the Labor Code currently requires the use of hard hats and other garments and barriers as safety precautions on certain California work sites and locations.
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http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=5&t=6872

Deviant/pundit Levicoff arguing with another internet ghost named Rambo...hell, I thought Rambo was a steroid freak with facial paralysis spreading terror in the jungles of Vietnam...

http/www.straightwalk.com/resources/Resume.doc

Quote:Collapsing like a weeping child in my shower Christ at last became real to me, and I submitted my life to Him.

Quote:I remind you, kimosabe, that you are amongst many on this forum who know biblical theology out the proverbial wazoo. And compared to them, you are a rank amateur. In both senses - you are obviously an amateur, and you're pretty rank

Quote:Although I certainly do NOT claim to be any kind of theological superman, I do have some background. Tell me, how many theological articles have YOU published? Books? At what seminary do you teach at?

Quote:I try to avoid ego games, though if I'm forced into one I generally do quite well.

Quote:Articles? Let's see . . . Christian Education Journal, Evangelical Journal, Christian Counseling Today, and Christian Century are a few that come to mind off the top of my head.

What seminary (did I teach at)?

Quote:[BOOK] Christian counseling and the law

S Levicoff - 1991 - Chicago: Moody Press

[BOOK] The New Song of Shiloh: An Historical, Legal, and Theological Exploration of a Indigenous Prison …

SF Levicoff - 1991 - Union Institute (so-called 'doctoral dissertation)

Quote:Dude, I said you were a rank amateur, and you have proved it. I also noted that you hadn't done your research, and you've more than confirmed it here. You could have found out those things about me with a simple Internet search.