Couldn’t Help But Notice (073107)
Here’s an interesting take on who gets harmed if the estate tax isn’t repealed and comes back in full pre-2001 force in a few years.
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Ward Churchill has been fired from his position at the University of Colorado. Michael Moynihan at Reason’s Hit & Run reminds us why it’s an obvious call.
Is this the last of the controversy? Surely you jest.
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The line between news reporting and infomercials continues to blur. This particular example from Freakonomics’ Steve D. Levitt is particularly disgraceful, but, unfortunately, probably not atypical. I agree with Levitt — “I will never again listen to the interviews on in-flight radio.”
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Long-suffering Chicago Cub fans (self included) instinctively knew this already:
Statistics indicate they (the Florida Marlins) were the worst team in 30 years to win a World Series.
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Speaking of disgraces, two Senators, BizzyBlog-named “Waste Ted” Stevens (also known as Ted “The Tubes” Stevens) and Daniel Inouye are calling for universal Internet filtering.
These two, who will be referred to as “Senators Dumb and Dumber” as long as they trumpet this initiative, tell us its to “protect children.” Well of course.
Unfortunately for Senators Dumb and Dumber, Mainland China’s censors think their entire nation consists of 100% children. So, naturally, they filter everything, with the help of American high-tech enablers.
Stevens and Inouye are proposing a dangerous idea that is every tyrant’s dream come true.
Perfessors Gone Wild: Shades of Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill had a friend, Ruben G. Mendoza, a teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, Denver. Ruben’s department Chair Dr. Moore, for abusing students, booted him from the university, against which Mendoza promptly filed suit. Ruben, an ersatz Chicano, resurfaced as an activist, and got fast-tracked to tenure at CSU Monterey Bay. Mendoza became the nosebleed of the fledgling university. Churchill was invited to CSUMB by Ruben to speak at a weeklong gathering of the clan. Mendoza also engages in academic misconduct, so far without consequence. The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that educators have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality. And, no one exploits phony paradigms, obfuscates truth, or games the system like the Clintons. Point being, miscreants like Churchill and Mendoza have powerful political backers: the fish rots from the head.
I Got Your University; Right Here
The Taliban might as well as run the university. -David Horowitz
Set the Wayback Machine for 23 August 1995: a hot day in the nation’s capitol. But 3000 miles due west on California’s Central Coast, a constellation of events was unfolding that would have a profound effect on Western civilization; plunge it into decades of war. Yet, this cataclysmic upheaval was only part of the plan. Bill Clinton picked up the telephone. It was his Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, calling from a payphone in Monterey. Bill held the receiver at arms length and gazed at the tasteful floral arrangement that adorned the Oval Office. Leon’s disembodied voice filled the room. What now, asked Hillary. It’s that damn college, mouthed Bill. There was, no getting out. Hillary nodded, just tell Leon he’ll get whatever he needs: http://theseedsof9-11.com
Comment by Sylvester Newell — August 1, 2007 @ 1:16 am