As someone who is responsible for screening, hiring, and evaluating educators, I can say without reservation: if I became aware that a teacher at my school was the author of the posts you made in this thread, it would raise some character concerns about that person.

Calling someone stupid, ignorant, an a-hole, etc. is one thing. Being unable to express frustration with a nemesis on the topic of NBA basketball without resorting to crudest, vile, boundary-less invective is inexcusable for anyone professing to be learned abour anything important. Honestly, I feel sorry for you, and for the students that only know the sanitized facade you display to them when unthreatened by intelligent dissent.

The Honorable Cock Jowles: My official performance evaluation, from both students and superiors, is absolutely remarkable. I have many ratings on “Ratemyprofessor.com,” and a 4.6 overall rating. If you think I’m some crotchety “my way or the highway” asshole in my professional life, you are imagining the wrong guy behind this keyboard. Here’s a fun little anecdote: One of my former students is on the advisory panel with the dean of liberal arts at my institution, and he actually told the dean that my class was the most important he’s taken at the university so far because I help my students develop the tools to think critically, rather than promote my own agenda re: political, social, or ethical matters. A class, he told the dean (who told me), where he felt comfortable to voice his opinions (and this student has political and epistemological views that run diametrically opposite to mine). Isn’t it ironic? Dontcha think?Would you care to continue judging my professional performance based on the way I e-treat a fawning Carmelo Anthony seed-rag, a denier of economics, and a blithering fuckwit?

THCJ, I have no doubt that when in a forum where you are undoubtably the ultimate authority on whatever is being discussed, and clearly the most intelligent guy in the room, and the room is one where the odds that a student would seriously challenge your views are nil, and the odds that any student that had the audacity to challenge your views would be intellectually capable of getting the upper hand are double nil, that you could charm the students into thinking that you are a great professor/teacher doesn’t surprise me, or impress me. (continued…)

The Honorable Cock Jowles: Shit, how did you know? I hope you come to a Knickerblogger meet-n-greet so I can hold you down and spit half-chewed bar wings in your mouth to simulate you swallowing ruruland’s bullshit at every opportunity.

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

jon abbey:
heh, I will enjoy continuing to methodically dismantle your entire basketball belief system in post after post after post to the point where you have nothing intelligent to say in response.

“You know, even Alan Hahn believes the Kobe Assist could really change the way we–”

[puts fingers deep in throat]

[jon abbey gasps, coughs, chokes, and swallows]

[exeunt]