So Tim is teaching one class per semester. $5,000 is more than many community colleges pay for adjunct who just graduated with either a Masters or Ph.D. Tim earned a Masters, so he can only teach at a community college (there would be a few exceptions for this, but not in English).

With the current economy, many colleges and Univs are filled to bursting (my college has run out of classrooms). But adjuncts now make over 50% of higher ed educators in most areas of the country. I wouldn't expect it to be too tough to get a temp position (semester by semester) at a comm college in English. The classes would be limited to basic English courses.

I don't know a single comm college adjunct who is teaching just one class per semester unless by choice. Most are teaching at 2-3 schools, and their life is nutz. Tim's Fall 2012 teaching load will say a lot about his marketability as an educator. While that first year after graduation is tough for even adjuncts, many adjuncts were teaching at a comm college before they finished their Ph.D.

Tim is a serious liar; he may be less than honest about his income. But based on his "thesis" and his online reputation, I'm amazed he is teaching at all. The college that hired him was desperate. Honestly, they needed someone at the last minute and told him to keep his politics to himself.

If Tim weren't all over the intertubes, he would have had a chance making a living as a full-time adjunct. He has no chance of that now. Students search Google before they register for classes; Tim would be wise to hire a company to wipe him off the tubes as much as possible.

Tim lies his ass off in his affidiavt for Orly.

1) He states that he worked in Hawaii through Sept. However, was on leave until Aug 21st! I think he had to be back on campus on Mon, Aug 23rd or Aug 30th, 2010. Fall term classes start on Aug 29th this year. Tim would have probably been required to be on campus for pre-term events by Aug 25th at the latest.

There is no way that Tim was in Hawaii on Sept 1st, let alone "through September 2008".

Tim wrote this on Aug 18th, 2010:


2) Tim wasn't overseeing "activities of the Absentee Ballot Office". He was a data entry temp.



Tim told WND:



If you google "Tim Adams", the first result in the above WND story. The 3rd result is Media Matters.

On the first page, there are links to Tim Adams' interviews on youtube.

Tim is a really, really bad liar. And he has severely screwed himself out of getting a job in academia. Adams is getting his dues. The intertubes is forever, Timmy!

Should anybody wish to read Timothy Adams' masters thesis, it is freely available here. It can be amusing, infuriating, or both to read what the Department of English at Western Kentucky University accepted as a scholarly contribution to knowledge. I just find it infuriating and inexplicable.

It says more about WKU than it does about Adams. And it isn't good.

Thanks. (I guess.) I just finished giving it a quick read.

Good Lord, I had no idea that dreck like that passes for a graduate thesis these days. Please tell me it's an extreme outlier.

I'm pretty sure that I could take any medium to longish thread here at TFB and wade through it cutting and pasting snippets into a document and come up with a more coherent and interesting thesis in the "new journalism" genre. It might take me as long as six or eight hours to do it, however.

When you start with the premise that bias is expected and objective truth is not an element of the form, it's OK to just ramble and rant away, right? Oy!

My favorite part were the endnotes. Oh! how scholarly they are.

That is pretty much the definition of what I consider to be the anti-intellectual, anti-rational movement called Postmodernism. Some English departments were deeply infested with it back in the late 20th century, but I think most places outside of the backwaters of academia have thrown it off as a passing curiosity. Some have actually returned to the quaint notion that it is possible to appreciate literature without the aid of a "theory." However, too many of them disdain the teaching of English as a language (such "conventions" as grammar and spelling).

I have no idea whether any of Timmah's three committee members are or were Postmodernist "theorists." It is likely that they simply wanted to be rid of him. I am watching to see whether he will be teaching there this fall.

Considering he mispelled Obama's name in the title of his paper, I had a hard time taking anything seriously beyond that point.

On later pages, he spelled "Barack" instead of "Barak." I think this shows sloppiness at the level of the administration and staff of Western Kentucky University as much as at Timmah's level. There is plenty of sloppiness in the body of Timmah's work.

In his acknowledgements, Timmah writes of "my rights to academic inquiry and freedom of expression" and how some members of the English faculty and the administration stood up for those rights. I have no doubt that some viewed the decision to award this degree as a matter of academic freedom. I also have no doubt that Western Kentucky University embarrassed itself by approving this piece of trash as a Masters thesis. Academic freedom is not about the protection of the incompetent.

He cited in his bibliography The Globe, and Wikipedia, his own Youtube and WND. I think there may be a couple of scholarly citations in there but they are definitely outweighed by those from the former sources.

I've just finished writing my first draft of my masters project a couple weeks ago. My hope is that I can publish a couple papers based on it. I worked really hard on it through some really tough times. It is a labour of hard work and love for my research topic. It is my hope that it might actually contribute to the body of knowledge on using technology in a systemic way in an undergraduate mathematics classroom.

Forgive me for my arrogance, but I fail to see how Tim's thesis could ever hope to contribute to a body of knowledge about anything. Thank goodness I am not taking English at WKU. I want my M.Sc. to mean something to me.

You are not arrogant; you are honest. Your M. Sc. will have meaning not only to you but also to others, including those who hire you. Timmah's degree might get him a job at WND or the Western Center for Journalism. It means nothing.

I remain infuriated at Western Kentucky University for having awarded this degree, but that has been true for more than a year now.

Oh good lord.

I'm resisting reading it, but that's hilarious.


When it's finished, I'd like to see a copy. Even if I don't understand a word, my dad will 'splain it to me. Eighty four years old, and he's never forgotten any of the math he ever learned. He was tutoring high school girls in calculus just a couple years ago.


And we have every faith in you that it WILL do so.

Amazing, isn't it? And he managed to learn and retain those quantitative skills despite the fact that he didn't have a pocket calculator at school and he was no doubt subjected to medieval teaching methods requiring endless repetition until correct answers were obtained. Imagine that!

At the ripe age of 95, I believe my stepfather could still teach calculus too. In fact, I'd lay even odds that he could still pass most of his final college exams (Batchelor's in Engineering '39, Masters in '40, both from Princeton). It's a pity that he can't remember that we had the same phone conversation last night.

I'm sure the word has fallen into disuse and disfavor by now, but the word that comes to my mind is sophomoric.

I'm a glutton for punishment. I read the whole darn thing. There's a lot of special things about it, but I am full of love for the fact that we can't trust the media or government but we ought to trust Tim Adams citation-free say-sos. I also doubt that Hunter S. Thompson would think that appearing on White Nationalist Radio was gonzo journalism, but I may be wrong about that.

I share your disgust with the granting of this degree. Postgraduate degrees are meant to be awarded to people who have advanced human academic knowledge. I feel ill after reading such a self-serving ramble about how Tim knows all about what's wrong with the world (and spoiler alert, Obama's birth certificate is a big problem with it, as is apparently every Obama supporter's religious-like fervour toward the President) as it has nothing in it that I would consider worthy to be submitted as a thesis. I think I did gain a better appreciation for why Orly so offends the lawyers here.

Apparently Tim Admas is now an Obot. I haven't watched the vid yet, so I could be wrong...

"With friends like that, ..."

He wants to kill off the GOP as a political party, putting in its place the Tea Party, the Libertarian Party, the Conservative Party, ... Romney was not legitimately nominated but was instead picked by some fat guys in the back room.

In this regard he resembles the fellow on Intrade who keeps hoping that Romney will resign and that Santorum will be chosen to take his place. Another keeps telling people to watch out for the rise of Gary Johnson. There are many supporters of Ron Paul who think that the RNC treated him very badly or even illegally.

Adams is as far to the right as ever. He just wants the GOP to get out of the way.

Bizarre.

Tim sez President Obama is the only "legitimate" candidate.

This ^^^x10!

Why is he wearing a dog collar and a string of Milk Duds around his neck?

He made the video -- and put on the bizarre attire -- because he is an attention whore. He could actually get a lot more attention by telling the Chaleria to stop using his affidavit. I think he'd even have a Judd smiling down upon him.

And why is he living that basement? Do you see all the cardboard box towers, and the one with the microwave oven on top?

Errazib, indeed.

That's a kukui nut lei.

I love it when you talk dirty!

"Fellowship of the Minds" has some theories about this video...

http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/ ... for-obama/