As I type this, I’m sitting in my professional development class on fund raising for nonprofit organizations. The class started about a half an hour ago and so far the topic of discussion has been the completely unsurprising New York Times article that was published yesterday regarding the television military news analysts (former army guys telling the country how to interpret the war). I should stress that “discussion” simply means our instructor actually reading the article verbatim and stopping to interrupt with liberal outbursts at portions of the article that make her angry.
When will this bullshit end? I’m here to learn about fucking fund raising and I’m being lectured to by a liberal professor reading from a liberal newspaper about a completely unsurprising story!?! Come on! I’m here to talk about fund raising, damn it! As I sit here in the thirteenth week of this course, I can report from a student’s perspective and a professor’s perspective that this class has been a complete disaster.
Without getting into the meat of the New York Times article (which I read yesterday AND I listened to the interactive feature, too), this story is not unexpected. You mean the Pentagon asked former military officers to spread the positives about the Iraq War? OH MAN! Someone call the paper and get this printed! Oh wait, I guess someone did…
Anyway, this is ridiculous. My company is paying good money for me to learn about fund raising so I can help build a fund raising program at the office and I’m being lectured to about the military? Give me a break…
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