Comments and Reads to Post By Somebody Too Lazy to Do Anything

Tomorrow I am back at work again.  I feel like I didn't have any time off this summer thanks to working summer school.

It will be my fifth year as a part-timer in the district.  I should say fifth academic year, but my fourth calendar year will end in November.  I have just one more year to go to qualify for vesting.  This is the biggest reason why I am doing the part-time gig and not trying for teaching jobs.  I want to make damned sure I am guaranteed a pension.  I barely qualified for Nevada PERS in 2008 thanks to those assholes in the WCSD "green house" who helped damage my career and tried unsuccessfully to take away my special ed license and my pension vesting.   Unfortunately, if I stay part time, I have to wait until I am 70 to collect a monthly check.  I do not want a cash payout, which would total around 15k.  A lot more money is available if I work until then or else work about three or so years in full time employment.  The big problem now is my age.

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Meanwhile, I skipped the obituary of Kofi Annan, former UN general secretary.  He died in Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 80.  I knew he had died, but I was too lazy to put it in the blog.

Details:

Mr. Annan’s first celebrated term as secretary general was capped by the Nobel Peace Prize. “In an organization that can hardly become more than its members permit, he has made clear that sovereignty can not be a shield behind which member states conceal their violations,” the Nobel committee wrote.

The United Nations works best when the secretary general and the U.S. president agree on most major issues. For that reason, Mr. Annan had a bruising second term as he pushed back against President George W. Bush’s growing determination to invade Iraq for supposedly harboring weapons of mass destruction.

“He had the bad luck to be secretary general when Washington was run by a band of ideologues,” Brian Urquhart, a former undersecretary general who is the dean of U.N. commentators, said of Mr. Annan in an interview. “If the United States had been on his side, he would have been regarded as in the class of Dag Hammar­skjold,” the Swedish diplomat widely regarded as the U.N.’s greatest secretary general.

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Of course Kenneth Starr is a world-class hypocrite.