WTF? Gonzo Teaching Government (PoliSci, Whatever) At Texas Technique?

This blogger, in his pajamas, sat down to start slaving over a hot keyboard this AM when an e-mail tweak from an Orangeblood chum shared the news before the blogger got to the local fishwrap: Texas Technique has sunk lower than the belly of a denizen of the Marianas Trench. The Red Faiders have hired Gonzo as an adjunct in the Government Political Science Department for $100K. Texas Technique had dreams of Tier I status as a research university in the Lone Star State. Now, after this self-inflicted hire, a traveler will be able to find the way to Lubbock by following the Trail of Tiers. The only thing that can save Texas Technique will be for the DOJ to get off its assets and indict Gonzo for war crimes. As a flight-risk, Gonzo could be kept under house arrest in the DC-suburbs of VA.

This has not been a good month in Texas. Earlier this month, Governor Goodhair appeared at a Houston tax-resister rally alongside The BFI and, in Goodhair-fashion, proclaimed The BFI an Honorary Texan. The retching-sounds you hear are coming from this blogger as he writes this crap. If this is (fair & balanced) vomiting, so be it.

[x Austin Fishwrap
Gonzales Coming Home To Texas To Teach In Lubbock
By W. Gardner Selby

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Alberto Gonzales, the counselor for former President George W. Bush who abruptly resigned as U.S. attorney general in 2007, has accepted a one-year appointment as a visiting professor at far-flung Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Gonzales will teach a fall junior-level course on contemporary issues in the executive branch and will also help the Texas Tech University System bolster student diversity at Tech and Angelo State University in San Angelo, the system chancellor, Kent Hance, said Tuesday.

Gonzales, who starts August 1, said he and his wife haven't decided if they'll move from Virginia to Lubbock or another city.

"I wanted to get back to Texas," he said. "This is one way to do it."

Gonzales, 53, served in state roles topped off by a seat on the Texas Supreme Court before joining Bush in Washington in 2001. His 31-month tenure as the first Hispanic attorney general proved tumultuous, marked by the firings of U.S. attorneys and criticism over his defense of prisoner interrogation techniques.

Hance, predicting left-wing criticism, said: "If somebody asks me if I'm for Al or the Taliban, I'll tell them I'm for Al."

Word of Gonzales' acceptance of the $100,000 post stirred political bloggers to comment, including Washington's Wonkette, which said: "Gonzales Finally Cons University Into Hiring Him."

Gonzales said: "I'm just going to try to continue to serve this state and the Hispanic community. If people have a problem with that, that's their problem. I don't pay attention to that."

Early this year, Gonzales said he hadn't lined up a job, adding that law firms were "careful about bringing on new people, and they are going to be careful about bringing on people where there are questions about things that may have happened in their past."

Gonzales said Tuesday that loose ends remain in investigations of his actions, but said, "I'm OK with what I've done."

Hance said he looked into Gonzales' possible interest in Tech in April after the Harvard-trained lawyer drew a standing ovation for encouraging remarks he gave to Hispanic law students at Tech. "To get a Cabinet member of either party to teach at your institution is great," Hance said. "This is America. It's higher education. We debate ideas."

[W. Gardner Selby, chief political writer for the Austin American-Statesman, has been in the political writing scene ever since he covered his first legislative session back in 1983. Selby has written in the past for such newspapers as the San Antonio Express-News, The Daily Texan, the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, and the now defunct Washington Post — Southwest Bureau and the Houston Post. Selby is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin.]

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