I am very worried he is about to lose his job. He has so many students on FB and he is saying such inappropriate things. One comment concerned some of the boys being gay and it is their loss that he "does not swing that way." WTF?? Another yesterday was telling the world in general that "Everybody needs to kiss my black-and-tan ass!!!! Hahaha." A reference to the markings on our dogs. None of the adults we regularly correspond with comment anymore, (only the kids do) but yesterday a senior scholar responded with "YOU might need all of us to kiss your black-and-tan ass, but somehow I don't actually feel that same need." Cuckoo responded with "You do, but I understand your reticence to admit it." Then the scholar called me to complain about Cuckoo and ask what the problem is with him. What a joy that was to try to explain and defend/protect Cuckoo from blowing up his own life and career, and mine along with him since we are tied together professionally as well as personally. All I can see is the desperateness and pain in the quotes, and see him throwing everything we worked so hard for down the toilet. So I cry in private, and spend time doing damge control for my sake as well as for his. Academia is a small mean world in which everyone knows everyone else's business.
