Couldn’t Help But Notice (110307)
I have a two-word response to this: Distance Learning.
One of these days, parents and kids are going to figure out that idea of brick-and-mortar residential universities is so 20th Century — unless they really believe that the Thought Police tyranny described at the link is part of “socialization.”
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The last few paragraphs at this link talk about how the Hollywood writers’ strike will hurt the late-night comedy shows, which will go into reruns, and other shows that depend on current events for their material, like Comedy Central’s Daily Show and Colbert Report. The presidential nominees in Fall 2008 will probably be wishing the writers had waited a year.
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This impeachment nonsense is an indicator that Dennis Kucinich is feeling confident that he will survive a Democratic congressional primary challenge. It seems like he’s up to a half-dozen challengers right now (I think it’s actually three or four), so I can see why.
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Hugo Chavez moves closer to “presidency” for life. Old Media mostly yawns.
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Hillary Clinton does poorly in a debate. Naturally, it’s a reporter’s fault (HT Hot Air), that arch-conservative Tim Russert. (/sarc)
Update, 10:30 a.m.: Rich Galen –
Americans may be perfectly happy to have a female President, but they probably do not want a female President who is going to be shattered by being put upon by men.
Exactly. Mark Levin, made this same point on his show last night, when he asked if anyone, anywhere, or at any time had ever heard Margaret Thatcher or Golda Meir whine about how mean men were to them. He also suggested that the more Bill Clinton “lies and tries to defend Hillary, the weaker she looks. Golda and Maggie never sent their husbands out to run interference for them.
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I agree with the Wall Street Journal that the Law of the Sea Treaty needs to get LOST.
Re the Thought Police post above, I wonder how many other schools are attempting to impose Orwellian Groupthink on their incoming freshmen? Read below to find out about my freshman daughter at a Florida State University—she is entering Miami U. in January and can’t wait to escape the agitprop she is force-fed.
The origins of “political correctness†harken back to the early days of the USSR when Lenin instituted a program to direct the Soviet republics’ citizens to “correct political thinking.†This led to purges, forced confessions [which the RA one-on-one with the students eeriely reminds one of], and all the insane totalitarian how-to-do agendas that Arthur Koestler brilliantly exposed in “Darkness at Noon,†a book unfortunately blackballed as students are force-fed essays in English class on “cosmopolitanism†by Kwame Appiah. I know because my daughter has been subjected to a dialogue by an ESL Cuban TA at her state university who keeps sending her submissions on “cosmopolitanism†and “little loyalties” by an author named Nathan who wrote AnyU back for redaction until my daughter regurgitates the party line.
Mind you—-this is ENGLISH WRITING CLASS. On the other hand, her International Political Economics professer, a man of some erudition despite his liberal tendencies, actually engages in dialogue and discourse with her!
So the leftist agitpreppies are using English writing classes and dormitory RAs to infect the students with Leninist principles.
Comment by daveinboca — November 3, 2007 @ 11:37 am
#1, more than you would know about.
If you mean University of Miami (FL) or Miami (Oxford, OH), it doesn’t matter — I would keep my guard up.
Comment by TBlumer — November 3, 2007 @ 11:59 am