Timing is everything. And quitting is the ultimate act of timing, knowing when to leave. Should you go when people still love you or should you go when my best before date is past and there’s a smell in the fridge.
In March 2008, His Lordship Wade of Stanhope told the Bored of Governors he was checking out the retirement homes in the Bahamas. His first idea was his best because now he’s up to his butt in wheelchairs with no way out.
His Lordship has had ten years of glory at UPEI. He quelled the Muslim uprising over cartoons. He beat up the students at the cadre with “It’s my property” and I’ll cry if I want to.
Lord Wade MacLauchlan of Stanhope
He beat up the professors’ union proving once more that a scrapper from Stanhope is worth more than 300 book-types. Lords like to lord it over their subjects.
He convinced a whole lot of rich and guilty business types to donate millions to have their names on square campus buildings.
His Lordship also wants to stay long enough to check out the toned and muscular young bodies at the Canada Games 2009.
And his Lordship is trying to beat up on me with his munchkin surrogate at the Access-Ability committee.
Too bad he didn’t quit there. However, his Lordship knew real glory was in his grasp not just minor glory, the Order of Canada! So he threatened the Bored with a weak resignation. qu
Enthralled by his Lordship, the Bored begged him to stay. With that move, His Lordship achieved ultimate power by calling their bluff. No department head would question his word. AVC rumblings about his imperiousness would be put to rest. Yes, there are intelligent people at UPEI who don’t like his Lordship and they’re not all vets.
His Lordship is a bigot. Not about his own prejudices and pecadillios but about those among us who are disabled, who look and talk differently. Megalomaniacs often project their own self-hatred and inadequacy onto society’s weakest. His Lordship has embarked on a campaign to get rid of the disabled on campus, perhaps PEI’s version of the final solution.
Whiff, whiff. His best before date is long overdue.
Postscript -I know there are those who will say “I love him. He’s grand.” Well if you love him, take him with you because a man with that little respect for human rights deserves to be somewhere, just not the head of a university.