tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56807312011-04-21T23:07:16.618-04:00Endeavoring to do for higher education what Jacobin Mugatu did for fashion.SDGnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5680731.post-1160195378368584962006-10-07T00:28:00.000-04:002006-10-07T00:29:38.376-04:00

www.eduPundit.com

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Wow...all kinds of juicy edu.treats floating around the net today. Jeff Jacoby rightly takes Presidents Clinton and Bush, the Higher Education Act, and avaricious college administrators to task in his column regarding the perennial call to throw more money at the skyrocketing cost of higher education. Not surprisingly, every attempt to make things more affordable has made it more expensive.

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I've been meaning to post this one for a while now. Of all the slice and dice jobs on campus "diversity," this one, by Tom Wolfe on page 550 of I am Charlotte Simmons, is simply splendid:...Everyone calls diversity dispersity. What happens is, everybody has their own clubs, their own signs, their own sections there they all sit in the dining hall - all the African Americans are over there...and

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University of Georgia housing officials - attempting to create an educational display commemorationg the desegration of the university are under fire for - apparently - portraying the situation too truthfully. The tempest is the result of reaction to a quote featured in the dispay in Myers Hall giving an illustration of the campus climate in 1961. In depicting what life was like for Charlayne

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I never thought I'd see a humorous reference involving Herbert Marcuse. Leave it to David Burge over at Iowahawk to prove me wrong.

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John Vernon, the actor who portrayed Dean Vernon Wormer in Animal House has died, just shy of what would have been his 73rd birthday. In the 27 years since the movie's release, much hand-wringing has been done about how the movie has been interpreted by generations of fraternity guys as the chapter operations manual. A Google search on Animal House Fraternity returns about 146,000 hits.

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Joan Hinde Steward, President of Hamilton College, has cancelled the panel discussion which was to have included University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, labeller (and libeler) of the World Trade Center victims as "little Eichmanns." Stewart's statement manages to be equal parts pussilanimity and disingenuousness:Cancellation of Panel Discussion on Limits of Dissent We have done our

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The University of Colorado is attempting to promulgate new rules and regulations expectations applicable to its fraternities and sororities. One of these is the "expectation" that those who wish to join fraternities and sororities will surrender their constitutional right of free association. First semester freshman will not be allowed to join and, presumably, those who do will be punished.

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Pop that collar and laugh!

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Collin Levey, in the Seattle Times writes a cogent "compare and contrast" essay on the disparate responses of the feminist "community" regarding Harvard president Summers' foot-in-mouth comments about women in science and the elevation of Condi Rice to be secretary of state.Meanwhile, the feminist refusal to offer even slight applause to Rice's achievements sends a far worse message: Women's

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John Derbyshire attended a dinner last evening with Yale professor Donald Kagan and reports in "The Corner:"There was some discussion about how many conservatives there are on the Yale faculty (not counting semi-autonomous outposts like the business school). Someone -- Harvey Mansfield, I think -- had publicized the number six; Prof. Kagan thought the correct number was three. Now, what would be

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A really disturbing CNN article today about the new low to which colleges and universities are sinking in their recruitment efforts.Forget course catalogs and colorful pamphlets. Think sex, skiing and rock 'n' roll. When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are turning to increasingly outlandish stunts to get the attention of high schoolers. Birthday cards, ski

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And here's what happens when a leftist campus mob enlightend, tolerant, blue state-voters decide to show Bushitler what "freedom" really means. (Props: Instapundit)

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I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.      -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (28 August 1963) I propose that a national fund be established to have this memorable - and essential - statement put on a large bronze plaque and mounted in each and every affirmative action,

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LGF tips us off that the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, Michael Hoyt, has written to the New York Post to express his agnosticism regarding the veracity of the CBS guard documents. He opines: While the bloggers strenuously assert that the documents are forgeries, nobody really knows, including the Thornburgh/Boccardi panel, which found that "it may never be possible for anyone to

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It's an axiomatic truth in this country. A sheepskin is a passport to a lifetime of higher wages (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, something on the order of 45% more). As today's New York Times reports, that rate of increase in that gap has stalled and may be on the verge of going backwards.The leveling off of the wage premium for a four-year college degree has lasted long enough to

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The University of Toronto's Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies is sponsoring an education program. You'd think maybe they'd discuss getting women drivers license in Saudi Arabia. But you'd be wrong. No, they'll be covering Israeli Apartheid Week. (Props: LittleGreenFootballs.com.

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Harvard's endowment guru, Jack R. Meyer is leaving. Meyer has attracted attention and criticism for running what amount to a (very successful) hedge fund with Harvard's endowment - and in the process drawing in outside investors whose fees frequently funded exorbitant bonuses to fund managers (sometime eclipsing those paid on Wall Street). An interesting practice, to say the least, for a

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Charlie Brooker writes in the left-wing UK Guardian:On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey

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Here's an LA Times article that manages to display the overwhelming left-wing bias in both the media and academia at the same time. Headline: UC Employees Dig Deeper for Bush, Kerry Campaigns From this, you might think that University of California employees were really turning out their pockets and looking under the sofa cushions to support the two candidates and - maybe, just maybe - the

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I happened to be channel surfing through and came across the movie Casablanca. I happened upon this memorable exchange, which seemed fitting, considering Sen. Kerry's current (as of publication) position that Iraq is worth it, but isn't worth it:Rick Blaine: Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for. Victor Laszlo: You might as well question why we

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Everyone else is commenting on the debate, so I suppose it's time to type at my computer what I screamed at my TV set last night (in no particular order): After Kerry's comment about nuclear proliferation being our greatest thread, Bush should have pounced with something like this: "Sen. Kerry just identified nuclear proliferation as our greatest security threat. But that's true in a September

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Would that I could write as he does in this wide-ranging, but ever accurate, take on modern times:But the regime is crumbling on campuses as well. Too many university professors in the humanities dropped long ago their allegiance to the disinterested search for truth, or to teaching students facts and methods. How could one be so constrained and parochial when a war was raging on, and millions of

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When John M. McCardell Jr. was the president of Middlebury College in Vermont, he led a crackdown on student freedom of association and free speech. Stripping students of their liberties must keep some people awake at night because the good professor seems to be mellowing in his current incarnation as an ordinary professor. Writing in the 13 September New York Times Op-ed section, McCardell

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By now, everyone other than Dan Rather has faced up to the fact that the blogosphere has shattered CBS News' bogus story about President Bush's TANG records. So, in what is either an extremely oddly timed article - or one one written entirely out of petty malice - CBS News drops a story subtly making bloggers appear amateurish because so few blogs are, in and of themselves, self supporting

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NEVER FORGET! "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."-- George Santayana, Life of Reason The American victims of 9-11 were mostly adults. The Russian victims of Beslan were predominantly children. These IslamoFacist terrorists have created a strange family indeed. They've struck almost everywhere now: Israeli athletes, Mid-East diplomats, those who walk the

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Disgusting. What are being referred to as "vandals," but who are really just left-wing idiots, have taken 3,000 American flags planted on the Knoxville campus as a memorial to the victims of the 9-11 terror attacks and replanted them to spell, "The World Suffers." Anti-American and anti-war pablum were chalked around the campus as well. Rest assured that after the public condemnations

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I see by the Big Board that we've got delicious new fare on the Crumbling Ivory menu: AcademicBIAS.com. Evan Coyne Maloney (one of the three behind the effort) from BrainTerminal.com has been a favorite of mine for a while. He's done several fine independently made short documentaries exposing the absurdity of the moonbat left (mainly at anti-war rallies) - and doing it by letting them hang

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The indispensable Charles Johnson at LittleGreenFootballs.com started a great thread today highlighting the obscene unwillingness of the mainstream media to call terrorism terrorism and instead to engage in unceasing euphemisms. The Daniel Pipes article cited there is priceless: Take the assault that led to the deaths of some 400 people, many of them children, in Beslan, Russia, on September

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Most are aware the two French journalists have been kidnapped by Iraqi IslamoFacists demanding the recision of a French law banning the hijab in public places such as schools. In editorial that succinctly sums up the preternatural French ability to learn the wrong lesson from any set of facts, the Le Monde newspaper opines in an editorial [translation mine]:No one is safe and no diplomacy can

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After yesterday's incredibly cynical post about college life, I was overjoyed to come across this brainstorm later yesterday. Anyone concerned about the state of our colleges and universities, owes it to himself to take a few moments to read Swarthmore Professor Timothy Burke's blueprint for the 21st Century College. Burke proposes an institution which eschews an unholy trinity of problems in

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Ladies and gentlemen, for a deft description of the leitmotif of so much the modern college campus, please give it up for Mr. Tom Wolfe, from his upcoming novel, I am Charlotte Simmons [Edited for language. Snippet props to Rolling Stone]: "Everywhere you looked at this university there were people knocking the 'the frats' and the frat boys...the Administration, which blamed them for the evils of

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So where is a child safer? At a Catholic church or in a public school? Many people would reflexively say a public school given the media's saturation coverage of the Catholic church's shameful revelations about the conduct of some of its priests and the reactions of some of its bishops. But there doesn't seem to be such media interest in a new federal report written by a Hofstra University

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Disgusting. Only al-Reuters could celebrate America's independence with a bizarre swat on the over-beaten horse-carcas of Abu Ghraib, Iraqi Prisoner Abuses Revive Nightmares for German POWs." Those poor little Nazis had it so rough. And oh heavens, those poor little terrorists too. Two words for them: tough teabags. Reuters, as you may know, won't use the word "terrorist" as they

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Oh, boy...lots of goings on to explain the absence of blogging. Not that anyone who reads this cares why! But anyhoo. On pretty much a whim (and my utter addiction to baseball), I went to Omaha, Nebraska for the College World Series. If you're a baseball fan, you must go to Omaha for the CWS at least once in your life. It isn't optional - it is the Mecca of amateur baseball. Well, except

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O! Omaha...congratulations to the Diamond Dawgs. First to win a spot in the College World Series. Busily exploring ways to cash in frequent flyer points, etc., and watch the fun. Having gone to the CWS three years ago, I can tell you that it is one of the most fun events to which I've ever been. It's better, of course, of your team is there, but even so, if you love baseball, this is one

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I'm on the road again...so blogging is a little light. But I picked up Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness (Oxford University Press, 2003) at a bookstore for some reading material. The first two sentences of the author's prologue set the scene at the instant of Churchill's ascendancy:It was in the spring of 1940 that Winston Churchill suddenly became the most important person in my

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Natan (nee Anatoly) Sharansky writes a fitting epitath for President Reagan and simultaneously echoes, with uncanny clarity, about the next challenge:In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for

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It just dawned on me that George Tenet's resignation could turn into a gold mine for the President. The only down side is if Tenet has some Richard Clarke-type animus toward President Bush that he takes with him in a defection to the Kerry camp. Barring that, however, and assuming W. picks a non-knucklehead to be the new CIA director, it's going to put Kerry and the Democrats in a terrible

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Victor Davis Hanson stands in against the crafty lefty. Here's the pitch. Hanson swings and it's a long drive to deep center...watch that baby...outta here, another homerun for Hanson.We do have a grave problem in this country, but it is not the plan for Iraq, the neoconservatives, or targeting Saddam. Face it: This present generation of leaders at home would never have made it to Normandy

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No significant original content today, but let's take the electric cyber-golfcart out for a spin anyway. The American Thinker blog provides a transcript of some truly interesting remarks by Professor Emeritus Harry Clor of Kenyon College. He makes a noble attempt to walk a fine line of discounting any absolute "Academic Freedom" and its attendant anything goes mentality. But he also firmly

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While George W. Bush may be the academic left's favorite villain, when it comes to acting "locally" one of their favorites is Wal-Mart. The discount retailer is frequently vilified for the minimum wages it pays its employees, the miserly benefits package they offer, the pressure they put on suppliers that force the latter to imitate Wal-Mart's wage policy, and clear cutting land for enormous box

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An Oregon man whipped his two year old son in an attempt to potty train him, leaving as many as 70 whip marks on his son's legs, buttocks, back and chest that were of various ages. The day before the boy died, he "played helicopter" with him, swinging him by his feet, spining in circles until the boy's head hit a table and the child's neck was snapped. The autopsy also showed broken ribs and

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Some thoughts on Memorial Day, a few days before the sixtieth anniversary of Operation Overlord and a month before the handover of Iraq. Sixty Years Ago: Polish, Australian, British, American and other forces storm through the sands to pry the iron heel of despotism from the throats of millions. They called it World War II. Sixty Seconds Ago: Polish, Australian, British, American and

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What day is it, kiddies? You say it's Friday?!?! Well, what does Friday mean? Friday means we review the transitive property. If &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Victor Davis Hanson = VDH (1) and &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp VDH = The Man! (2) Then &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Victor Davis Hanson = The Man! (3) The logic is self-evident, but you need more proof why, by all means click here. So, I'm off to Atlanta to

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With the acolytes of liberalism out in force giving graduation speeches in disproportionate numbers, your humble blogger will spend today playing the role of class historian and talk a little bit about those who didn't make it and, if nothing else, will at least be spared the fatuous ramblings of people like E. L. Doctorow. A new report issued yesterday by the Education Trust, reveals some

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There's a movement afoot to force a professor at the University of California, Berkeley out of his job. Your first reaction might be to think that the subject is Hatem Bazian, who on 10 April exhorted an anti-war rally in San Francisco to...well...war, saying, "we've been watching intifada in Palestine, we've been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come

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In another display of Ivory Tower doublespeak, nine elite American universities are lecturing the Ford and Rockefeller foundations about "academic freedom" after the two private charities decided to implement language into their standard grant agreements providing for withdrawal of funding in the event the any part of the recipient organization was found to have directly or indirectly sponsored "

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Not so secret recipe for a Campus Race Relations Quagmire souffleé: Ingredients: dozens of offensive t-shirts, legions of upset students and faculty, $50,000 in corporate guilt money, one "radical" outside speaker, one conservative student columnist, two Klansmen, and an ambiguous politically correct ethos. Directions: Have promotions company distribute disgraceful t-shirts printed with "10

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A recently released study of 12,000 high school students surveyed in 2002 indicates that 74% of them admit to having cheated on an exam at least once in the past year, up from 61% in 1992. The reasons for this are complex, but Bruce Tinsley, in his Mallard Fillmore comic points out one obvious underlying factor. Ivory tower types who bemoan the loss of academic honesty have some real soul

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I submitted this letter in response to Ted Rall's article in Athens' local "alternative" paper, Flagpole. To the Editor of Flagpole: Ted Rall's 'Torture Apologists (Flagpole, 5/19)' is a thoroughly dismaying - but nonetheless enlightening - peek into paucity of both integrity and perspective that that was all too readily accepted by Flagpole as part of its ongoing efforts to express

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In the kind of strategic analysis you'd expect from the world's foremost chess player, Russian Garry Kasparov lays out just what the real issues are in Iraq. Amongst the many game gambits, came the money quote to put America's recent fiasco in perspective:Al Jazeera isn't examining Vladimir Putin's war against Muslims in Chechnya. All of Chechnya is one big Abu Ghraib, but the Islamic world pays

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From Omar, an Iraqi Blogger in his 14 May 2004 blog:"The first week of this month brought good news to the Iraqi retired governmental employees. They started to receive salaries instead of the emergency payments they used to get during the last 12 months. Each one of them used to receive 80 $ every three months (compared with an average of 20 $ on Saddam's days) but now they're getting paid

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The International Olympic Committee entertains us today with these two items: First, the IOC slashed the number of potential host cities for the 2012 Summer Games from nine to five. Quoth Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC, the goal was "separating the boys from the men [emphasis supplied]." However, in a related story, the IOC also announced that men who have separated themselves from

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The new liberal talk radio network, AirAmerica, has its own merchandise shop. We should have known this outfit was in bad taste when they gave the network the same name as a failed Vietnam-era CIA front operation, but his is kind of pathetic. What does it say about AirAmerica that in their merchandise shop, they offer the following item: Classic Thong This product is designed to fit juniors

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I haven't picked on any academic institutions lately, so it's time to get back to roots blogging here. FOXNews.com has a front page webstory today titled 'Ga. High School Holds Segregated Proms'. Toombs County High School is having three proms this year: one geared twoard whites, one toward blacks and, for the first time, one for hispanic students. While the original segregated proms at

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Here is a short, 6 paragraph article from the Associated Press that demonstrates all too well about media bias in Middle East reporting.RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday called on his people to "terrorize your enemy" as he bitterly marked the 56-year anniversary of Israel's establishment, but also signaled that he is ready for peace. In a speech broadcast live

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If you want to see the institutional and intellectual bankruptcy of compus political correctness without having to get your hands dirty cutting into the seedy underbelly of the academy, look no further than the University of Iowa this month. The UI Athletic Department cancelled its 4 May baseball game against the Bradley Braves because of a policy prohibiting the Hawkeyes from playing games

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Nick Berg deserved better from his hometown newspaper than what Philadelphia Daily News columnist John Baehr wrote in his article Time to Get the Hell Out. I'll leave aside Mr. Baehr's opinion - as one can glean from the title - that it's time to high-tail it out of Iraq. That's his opinion. But as a preview of what will no doubt prove to be the far more damning legacy of Mr. Berg's murder, it

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I was going to stay out of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal because so many others have posted far more eloquently than I ever could. However, I am going to weigh in by linking to a blog written by Ali and his two brothers - all three Iraqis living and working in Baghdad. This particular entry relates a conversation between Ali and a doctor who actually works in Abu Ghraib. It certainly puts

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I was in Washington, D.C. on business this week. Although I didn't get to see it up close, on a few occasions, I was able to go by the site of the new National World War II Memorial several times. First off, I need to begin this by saying that the World War II generation deserves a memorial. Of the over 16 million Americans to serve in that war, 405,973 gave their lives to defeat Hitler's

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'Nuff said.

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Hitler's dream of a fascist, totalitarian, Jew-free world with a master race is alive and well these days, sadly. Of course, it may not be quite the master race the Fuhrer dreamed of, but why nitpick - today's lefties certainly don't? Mad props to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler for a poignant photoshop job...or is it?

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Lots of driving, weird hours and little time to connect and scan the web this week. Blogging at random wne when possible, but probably little of substance until next week. Sorry.

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Many of the Angry Left intelligentsia have guffawed over the notion that there is a coaltion at work in Afghanistan or elsewhere. Tell that to the family of Sergeant Major Iosif-Silviu Fogorasi, a Romanian who gave the ultimate of himself to make the lives of countless others more free - an espcially poignant sacrifice by a man from a country itself still rebuilding from the wreckage of having

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Having to endure the modern business trial of commerical aviation, not much blogging today, which worked out well, because Wendy McElroy really lays it down about McCampus - high prices, low quality. Come to think of it, not all that different than commercial aviation.

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This is a headline today from FoxNews.com:&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Arafat Calls for End to Mideast Violence If you're like me, you'd find this hilarious. Except that it isn't really funny. But neither is Hitler and Mel Brooks had a lot of fun with him. So, in that spirit, take a moment to use the comments link below and create your own witty similes. Here's a couple examples: Yassir Arafat

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That's the line from college presidents these days...and in more ways than one. As blogged on 11/4, tuition at America's public colleges and universities is up, on average, more this year than at any time in the last 30 years. But we're talking about academia, right? Isn't everyone there a valued part of a diverse community? So higher "taxes" must be worth it, right? Commencement

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Many know that Veterans Day is the successor commenoration to Armistice Day, November 11, 1918. In a nod of histoical recognition, CNN.com has a (well earned) puff piece today on two veterans of The Great War ("That's what we called it, The Great War. That was before we knew enough to number them," Mr. Wabash, Three Days of the Condor). Intuitively I knew there couldn't have been many left,

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"The Sixties...What a shrill and pointless decade." -- Kent Brockman

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Another "Affirmative Action Bakesale," but this one with a happy ending. The Committee for Freedom at Indiana University sold only three cookies, but managed to get two money quotes and a nice victory for liberty in the bargain. Without a trace of irony, the president of the Black Student Union told the Indianapolis Star, "It was a slap in the face, especially since there is no affirmative

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A disquieting tollbooth on the diversity highway today: The student government at Iowa State University has voted to give students funds to a sexual bondage fetish club, Cuffs. Now, mind you, it was only $94, so maybe I'm getting whipped up about nothing. Well, actually, I guess Cuffs is. But I digress. "Receiving the money is a triumph for diversity," says Duane Long, Jr., president of the

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The Harvard School of Public Health released a study last month purporting to show a relationship between higher levels of diversity on campuses and less binge drinking amongst "high risk" groups (blogged 10/31, 'Drunk and Diversity'). The presence of more diverse groups, they claim, has a moderating effect on the others and they suggest that the results might be applied to admissions and

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I blog a lot here about what happens to students after they show up on campus. Of course, that they're there means that someone has paid the freight - no small feat these days. Tuition at public colleges and universities is up 9.8%, the private set 5.7%. Each is the biggest jump in 30 years. The list of America's 10 priciest colleges is also out today. You'll notice the remarkable

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Word about the crumbling of free speech and intellectual diversity in the Ivory Tower is starting to make the rounds of the mass media and, as Justice Louis Brandeis famously remarked, "sunlight is the best disinfectant." While the congressional hearings on the 'Acadmic Bill of Rights' introduced by a few members of the House of Representiatives are, perhaps, just the thinnest of rays coming

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Arrrrrgh. We lost to Florida - again. Being a Georgia football fan is like playing Monopoly and drawing the "You Win Second Prize in a Beauty Contest - Collect $10" card from the Community Chest pile. It's a pleasant enough surprise when it turns up and you never say to 'no' to it, but it'll never make you a big winner and you certainly shouldn't count on it to bring lasting happiness or

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We've all heard some pretty lame arguments for campus "diversity" (read: race based admissions policies). Now, comes this finding from Henry Wechsler and his not so merry band of researcher/doo-gooders at Harvard University: greater diversity on college campuses significantly lowers rates of binge drinking among high-risk students. The study, in a public health journal, then goes on to

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Do you remember right back after 9/11 when it was obvious we were going to strike back at the Taliban during the fall? Do you remember how so much of the whiney chattering class and the Angry Left fretted that it might be "insensitive" to attack during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan? Needless worrying. War during Ramadan is perfectly OK, as we found out in Iraq today. Forty-two are dead

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There's a whole lot of not bloggin' goin on...today's unblog comes from Charlottesville, Virginia, where I'm travelling for work. Limited access and weird hours have me out of the loop. Sorry to the 2.581 of you who read this for not being in a position to be more assiduous. However, I do need to recognize the Florida Marlins. Of course anyone beating the evil Yankees is a good thing.

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I see by the Big Board over on the right side of the screen that we have a new link today for TownHall.com columnist Mike S. Adams (note to my fellow Athenians: not that Mike Adams). I'm not too proud to admit that his columns - particularly those highlighting the excesses of the PC campus - are spot on and everything I wish I was able to do with this blog (to hope, perchance, to dream).

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Buried deep in the U.S. code is something called the Solomon Amendment, a simple little known codicil that says if you take federal research funding, you have to let the military recruit on campus. For Yale University, this means something like $300M dollars or more annually toward its operations from the Federal trough alone (FYI, Yale says that it is a private institution). On Thursday, 44

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I'm on the road again for work, so posting in is a little difficult. Here are a few scattered tidbits that I've managed to run into while having infrequent connectivity. The Palestinian Authority, the unindicted co-conspirator of the Axis of Evil, is shedding crocodile tears over the deaths of three Americans in a roadside bombling. The United States has not retaliated except to castigate

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An Update on the Ole Miss Mascot kerfuffle...In the days before political correctness, my chemistry teacher in high school, Dale Reynard, used to playfully taunt the class about its collective failure to answer a question by saying, "Come on people, a blind man could tap this one out with his cane." Well, in a move that Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles could've predicted in stereo (with an

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The University of Mississippi is full bore now in its efforts to replace its on field athletic mascot, Colonel Rebel. Ole Miss, seeking to blunt its checkered past on race, is doing away with the ostensibly tainted Colonel Rebel (imagine the love child of a union between Colonel Sanders and Yosemite Sam). I'll admit, as much as I don't usually buy into PC moves like this, this one was probably

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Not to be outdone by Southern Methodist University (blogged 9/25 and 9/26), officials at Gonzaga University have now banned the word 'hate' because...yes, you got it, it's discriminatory. The campus group of Young Americans for Freedom is set to host a duly registered program on Paul Flynn's book, Why the Left Hates America. Not content to just have the event, those crazy kids went and

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VDH words 'em up on Iraq (blogged 9/21/03), now he lays it down 'bout the Ivory Tower. Geez, he's good. This is about 10 pages, but well worth the read.

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I won't even bother making a link to one of the news stories about Rush Limbaugh's comments regarding Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. Everyone knows. The only surprise to me, really, is that I've heard nary a peep from Jesse Jackson about it. Maybe there's a reason for that. Jackson, of course, is usually one of the first tired faces to open his pie-hole and make just about

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For those of you that thought you had to suck up to "Q" to get one of those nifty, flame-throwing cars that all the cool secret agents are driving, your deliverance is at hand! Forget the Segway. This is "it."

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Until about three minutes ago, I had no idea there was such a thing as a transgendered lesbian (a woman who was born a man, had sex-charge surgery to become a woman and is sexually attracted to women). I stand enlightened. Not only are there such people, but there are enough of them to protest being excluded from Lesfest 2004. I see special interest housing at Wesleyan University in the

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Well, I'll blog today after all. Here's a sports story you wont see on ESPN and a news story you won't find out about on CNN. Yassir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, the unindicted co-conspirator of the Axis of Evil, have sponsored a soccer tournament glorifying terrorists. Each of the 24 teams is named for a terrorist, a terror group, or someone who died fighting the Israelis. In

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Well, I've been pretty busy with work, but, happily, the link wagon stopped by and dropped off all sorts of web-swag - also somewhat inspired by Thomas Sowell's 'Random Thoughts' column today. Lots of little gems here, but the quote that hit home for me, for personal reasons, was: "No matter how old I get or how sophisticated I think I have become, I still find it hard to deal with betrayal."

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With the baseball playoffs upon us, go to your library and pick out W.P. Kinsella's (yeah, the guy who wrote the book that Field of Dreams was based on) The Thrill of the Grass. Some really good short stories, but with the Cubs in the playoffs and the North Koreans talking about nuclear missles, there's one story that's just too funny not read.

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Poor Southern Methodist University. The reigning, best little PC thughouse in Texas is so upset that the media classified their closing of an "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" as a "free speech issue" (blogged here on 25 September) that they've issued a press release to disabuse us simpleminded folk of our misguided impression. SMU's "new" position is (my commentary in italics): That a dozen (

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Quick trivia question. When Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, what was the charge on which he was being held? Anyone....Baker, Bishop, Beuller, Beuller...? The answer: Parading Without a Permit. So, on today's upside down, PC campus, irony as thick and rich as a good fudge brownie shouldn't surprise anyone. Yesterday, Southern Methodist University shut

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Even though I own it on DVD, I got sidetracked over dinner watching The Manchurian Candidate on cable. It has always been one of my favorite movies, but I don't think I've sat down and watched it since before 9/11. The movie was originally made in 1962, though between its conspiracy theory underpinnings and a feud between star Frank Sinatra and the studio over the royalties to which 'Ol Blue

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If you read no other article about the U.S., the U.N., (old) Europe and Iraq, read this one. Link props (indirectly) to [blogless] Bill Beebe.

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Dave Barry's brilliant idea to call the American Teleservices Association (the fine folks who help bring you only the highest quality, "constitutionally protected," annoyance phone calls during dinner) at their toll-free number proved so wildly successful that even the automated system the ATA put in place to screen your phone calls (lest they be disturbed while doing something worthwhile) has

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I'm about 153/361st of the way through Philip Roth's The Human Stain. Definitely a Philip Roth book, but after a bit of an arduous start, it is getting interesting and it definitely isn't nice about political correctness. That gets a thumbs up. In a perspicacious little passage that Ambrose Bierce probably would have loved to include in The Devil's Dictionary, Roth uncorks a gem about the

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This is probably going to be a very long list someday. It wouldn't, of course, if I was more creative and witty, but, I digress...anyhoo, Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry gets serious props for coming up with a startlingly successful way to turn the tables on telemarketers. The American Teleservices Association (ATA), the mouthpiece for the telemarketing industry, claims that it has a

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In MemoriamSeptember 11, 2001

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