James Vardaman

Industrial sociologist. Senior Editor, Journal of Small Business Management. Professor and Free Enterprise Chair at the University of Memphis.

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

I'm excited to announce our edited volume (with @DGA_TalentProf) is available for pre-order on amazon and at other booksellers. The book provides the first context-specific global perspective on retaining talent.

https://t.co/Rmkq7LYl73

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Congats to the 22-year-old son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for raising $30 million on his new company with a $300m valuation.

His prior work -- as a Senate intern and then in the Congress Influence department at Andreessen, Horowitz -- is a testament to our meritocracy!🇺🇸

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of prominent scientists challenged the prevailing government approach to lockdowns. The Lockdown Dissidents tells the story of researchers who say they were censored when they questioned the public health consensus. https://t.co/DSWzXKE7Lj

[Jeb Hill @memphistigerjeb]

93 days until Memphis Tiger football & in 1993, Arkansas tried to get revenge on Ken Irwin, who had set the NCAA record with 4 blocked punts against them in 1992. On the 1st play of the game they tried to beat him deep. It didnt work out for them. Tigers win 6-0 in the rain.

[Jeb Hill @memphistigerjeb]

95 days until Memphis Tiger football and heres Kevin Cobb's ESPY award winning 95 yard kick off return against UT Knoxville in 1996 (Paul Hartlege and UTK radio).

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@MaroonSquatch @DenhamsGhost These comments are gold

[Scott Redler @RedDogT3]

Rick is old school

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

🚨Study involving 1.7 million children has found that Myocarditis & Pericarditis only appeared in children who had received COVID mRNA vaccines.

Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems.

[Memphis Basketball @Memphis_MBB]

BEALE OVER BOURBON 😤

#GoTigersGo | @VIOCOfficial

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@Memphis_MBB Nice win guys. Go win the whole thing next week.

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@JohnMartin929 …and may get two coaches fired

[Muriel Blaive, PhD @MurielBlaivePhD]

I never understood the shenanigans around Covid if only on the basis of this particular graph. Masks and lockdowns were clearly useless against Covid as there was no difference in mortality between France and Sweden - but the measures *were* very good at destroying the economy, society, and the rest of public health!

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@SeanTrende @LPDonovan Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, Roy Moore. It happens for the GOP in ALL years.

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@SeanTrende This is the best insight I’ve seen on this platform in a long while.

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@stillonzoloft Literally every nonprofit works this way.

[Jeb Hill @memphistigerjeb]

Cincinnati did that to Memphis back in 1993. before the game winning field goal, the refs let the grounds crew run out and clear the snow away from where the kicker was standing

[Memphis Football @MemphisFB]

Tigers are apex predators

#GoTigersGo | @CoachHuff

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This is a great piece with some mind-boggling statistics.

- At Brown and Harvard, more than 20% of undergraduates are registered as disabled
- At Amherst: more than 30 percent
- At Stanford: nearly 40 percent

Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago."

As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc—the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded.

America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally. It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations.

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@Horras_E @JamesBryantWX He’s had a roster that was 2-10 times more expensive than every conference opponent and still hasn’t been able to reach the conference championship game. His roster is estimated at $12-15M and he loses to teams who don’t spend $1M. That’s why.

[James Vardaman @JamesVardaman]

@Funderburk @HailStateMBK That’s optimistic

[Herd Bros @TheHerdBros]

Hard concept for CFB fans:

You don’t devalue the regular season by expanding the playoff.

You devalue the regular season by automatically stuffing the playoff with your 6th best conference team rather than every single conference champion.