On Friday, August 28, a central Missouri contact of mine alerted me to a podcast that I would surely never have paid any mind to, and that's because the thrust of it is sports at the main campus of the University of Missouri (UMC) in Columbia.  When it comes to sports, my interest is confined to "power croquet" and women's mud wrestling.  But the young podcaster here, one John Miller, uses his medium to comment on an academic matter: After one day of class at Mizzou, of Zoom classes for the most part, well we've got a professor who's been relieved of his teaching duties already for making a joke.  Yes, an innocuous joke.  Boy that didn't last long did it?  Well, I have some thoughts on this whole debacle. Miller then segues into sports, which one can skip if one goes to the 23:45 point, where he resumes his comments on the above.  Click right here for the individual...(Read Full Post)