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February 7, 2005

Ward the Marxist beaver: an update on academic freedom

From CBS/AP:

Slouching toward dementia, 5 (or, my scissors talk to me again)

I’m telling you, man, you want to pluck your eyebrows, not trim them. Or else they’re gonna grow back twice as bushy and unruly. Christ.  It’s like you were raised by monkeys or something.

Pilgrim’s Progress

From the Corner’s John Derbyshire, posted under the headline “SPURIOUS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES “: English, of course. We math and science students used to have royal fun scoffing at the Eng Lit crowd. “They’re going to give you a degree JUST FOR READING NOVELS? Hooo hooo hooo!” I still think it’s a joke. Even more of a joke now than it was back in the 1960s, in fact: the folk we

9 important differences between accused child molesting pop star Michael Jackson and a toasted english muffin

Michael Jackson:  proud owner of a giraffe and a monkey; a toasted english muffin: somewhat reluctant owner of nooks and crannies. Apply butter to a toasted english muffin and the butter melts; apply butter to Michael Jackson and he giggles and calls you “Mr Teasy Tease.” It’s legal for a 9 year old boy to eat a toasted english muffin Very rarely will you ever hear anyone order a Spanish

Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the demotion of a female soldier from the 160th Military Police Battalion photographed exposing her breasts during a Camp Bucca, Iraq, mud wrestling party in October

Garrett:  “Demoted, eh?  Must have been a fat chick.  Or else she had a face like an East German swimmer.  Because you spank hotties.  You make them beg like puppies.  But demote them…?  Naw.  That just ain’t how life works, brother.”*