So. I just watched Nancy Kanwisher, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive science (gulp!), and Sam Halabi, a Harvard law student, being interviewed about their support for this colossally asinine MIT-Harvard divestiture petition by FOXNews’ Neil Cavuto. The essence of the position being championed by these two jargon-slinging, pseudo-informed buffoons (once you cut through all the obligatory tripe about “root causes,” “occupation,” and “humiliation,” blah blah blah) is this:

So. I just watched Nancy Kanwisher, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive science (gulp!), and Sam Halabi, a Harvard law student, being interviewed about their support for this colossally asinine MIT-Harvard divestiture petition by FOXNews’ Neil Cavuto. The essence of the position being championed by these two jargon-slinging, pseudo-informed buffoons (once you cut through all the obligatory tripe about “root causes,” “occupation,” and “humiliation,” blah blah blah) is this:

The National Review’s Rob Dreher joins Reason’s Charles Paul Freund (“Fortuyn’s Folly“) and the blogosphere’s erudite Doc Weevil (“The Limits of Tolerance”) in examining the media machinations that turned openly Gay ex-socialist educator Pim Fortuyn into a “far-right” extremist bigot: “Extreme? Pim Fortuyn was not who they say he was“: […] what accounted for Fortuyn’s ‘extreme right’ reputation was not his tax or agricultural policies, but his views on immigration

I like Spinsanity. On occasion, though, the Spinsanity crew can get a little too over-eager. And it shows. Yesterday, for instance, Ben Fritz attempted to deconstruct the

Sorry for the dearth of posts today, everybody; I’ve been wearied by the barrage of pro-Palestinian garbage on the news shows (“you see? The Israeli military incursion cannot and will not stop the suicide bombings! Occupation must end, yada yada yada!”) — and besides, my host has been acting quite bitchy. But this got me quite exercised. Yessir. Once again, I find myself embarrassed to be associated with “academic” thinking…