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sabotabby: I'm bored at work.brownfist: Blog like a madwoman!sabotabby: Well, I was going to write a post about David Horowitz, but it's just too easy.There's an old joke about a Jewish guy reading an Arab newspaper, because the news in it is so much better. That's kind of how I feel about David Horowitz. I see the Left losing on so many fronts, at least in North America, but a quick trip over to Discover the Network and I'm reminded that we're swimming in cash and political connections and totally kicking the neo-cons' asses. Awesome.
Now, I'm pissed that I don't rate high enough to get on that site (although some of my best friends are terrorists), so I can totally understand why some people are irked that they didn't get to be on his poll of the worst professor in America. (Apparently the man to beat is Michael Bérubé.)
Everyone likes a good contest, of course, but in all honesty, this promotional stunt for D Ho's book, The Professors, is serious business. After all, education ought to be dangerous; that's why school administrators work so hard to make sure that no one gets a proper one. (I'm looking at you, Arizona.)
Here's a good look into D Ho's twisted psyche.
I'm currently reading God, Guns, & Rock'N'Roll by Ted Nugent. It's really good so far! The first chapter has our hero rushing to the aid of a defenseless (albeit armed) plainclothes cop. For the next little while, this blog will have a new feature, the Ted Nugent Quote of the Day, because the book is just that good.
Today's quote:
Some folks might remember that George Bernard Shaw—a sandal-wearing socialist vegetarian—tried to reform the spelling of the English language. Big deal. Big musty flop. This book—by the hard-drivin', hard-lovin', full-throbbin', high-octane, deerslayin'. allthings-scarin', ballistic guitarboy—Nugetizes it. Get ready to rock, doc.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:06 pm (UTC)My.
God.
I think someone called today because of this.
They kept asking for "Mr. Minor". I had no idea what they were talking about, they eventually hung up befuddled with "I think I have the wrong number".
Holy shit.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:12 pm (UTC)I'm trying to use the map thing to determine how many degrees of separation CPT is from any group I'm in, and it seems spectacularly limited. I wonder how they determine a "connection"?
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:13 pm (UTC)Which means, of course, that you totally need to do that, and I totally need to read it.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:15 pm (UTC)Can I totally jack this icon?
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:21 pm (UTC)Problem is, it's generally accepted in the UK that you're going to get a load of mad lefties in academe. But then, most of 'em don't actually make themselves dangerous.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:35 pm (UTC)*falls over*
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:46 pm (UTC)Once my icon making abilities are upon me it'll be showtime!
I'll check in when I get an idea to say "psst - hey - you aren't making this one yet are you?"
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:53 pm (UTC)Next project: Trolling RevolutionaryLeft and pretending to be a capitalist.
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Date: 2006-02-24 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 11:57 pm (UTC)The baby raven is just about the best thing I have ever seen.
I was totally convinced ravens hatched fully grown - or flew out of a rip in a parallel dimension or something.
I didn't think they were ever SQUISHY FUZZY SILLYHEADS!!!
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Date: 2006-02-25 12:00 am (UTC)---
I want to start trolling at pro-marijuana rallies. You know, wear a suit, carry a sign of Kurt Cobain with the words "FOLLOW YOUR LEADER" written in big blood red letters underneath, that sort of thing. I think it would be intensely amusing.
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Date: 2006-02-25 12:01 am (UTC)NEVERMORE!!!!!!!!
Date: 2006-02-25 12:02 am (UTC)If a baby raven makes it into the world it can't survive.
SCIENCE!
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Date: 2006-02-25 12:02 am (UTC)You are forbidden from doing so without a digital camera.
Me, I can't go to those rallies. Pot smoke gives me a headache.
Re: NEVERMORE!!!!!!!!
Date: 2006-02-25 12:03 am (UTC)Re: NEVERMORE!!!!!!!!
Date: 2006-02-25 12:23 am (UTC)Do you think ravens/crows see people right before they die?
Re: NEVERMORE!!!!!!!!
Date: 2006-02-25 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-25 01:10 am (UTC)Ted Nugent/Noam Chomsky slash would be sicker, but Chomsky never wrote any music to top Ted's 9 1/2-minute psychedelic masterpiece "The Inexhaustible Quest For The Cosmic Cabbage" which appeared on the Dukes' Journey To The Centre Of The Mind LP.
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Date: 2006-02-25 04:52 pm (UTC)Bad link
Date: 2006-02-25 04:57 pm (UTC)Re: Bad link
Date: 2006-02-25 05:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-25 05:10 pm (UTC)Re: Bad link
Date: 2006-02-25 05:13 pm (UTC)Also, tricorn hats = sexy.
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Date: 2006-02-25 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-25 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-25 07:37 pm (UTC)I can understand why Mikky would go for Sergei, though. He was a cutie back in the day:
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Date: 2006-02-26 09:49 pm (UTC)The Scott McLemee piece is great. I especially love these two quotes:
That it even comes up is a reminder of (as someone once put it) the most remarkable thing about Richard Hofstadter’s book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life — namely, that he kept it to one volume.
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In his note, Horowitz did not attempt to make any argument for the sanity of this enterprise. And for that, I salute him.
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Date: 2006-02-26 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-27 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-27 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-27 04:18 am (UTC)Re: NEVERMORE!!!!!!!!
Date: 2006-02-27 04:21 am (UTC)Christopher Walken reads The Raven :)